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Joe Kuharich
1948-1962 • Notre Dame, San Francisco
2 schools coached, anchored by Notre Dame.
Joe Kuharich coached 8 seasons, won 53.2%, and posted an average SRS of 8.7. Best season: 1951 San Francisco. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 42-37
- Career win rate
- 53.2%
- Average SRS
- 8.7
- Peak SRS
- 21.0
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 8
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- #14
- Consistency
- 23.6
Primary school anchor
Notre Dame
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 86.7.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Joe Kuharich
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Joe Kuharich: 1959 Notre Dame
1948Actual season year • SRS range -11.0 to 21.01962
Active comparison point
Joe Kuharich • 1951
1951 San Francisco
Best season9-0 • SRS 21.0 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
+11.6
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#14
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
0-12
- Games
- 12
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results16
| 1962 Regular Week 7 | Notre Dame | Northwestern | #1 | L6-35 |
| 1962 Regular Week 6 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #10 | L7-31 |
| 1962 Regular Week 5 | Notre Dame | Wisconsin | #10 | L8-17 |
| 1962 Regular Week 4 | Notre Dame | Purdue | #9 | L6-24 |
| 1961 Regular Week 6 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #1 | L7-17 |
| 1960 Regular Week 11 | Notre Dame | Iowa | #2 | L0-28 |
| 1960 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Pittsburgh | #12 | L13-20 |
| 1960 Regular Week 8 | Notre Dame | Navy | #4 | L7-14 |
| 1960 Regular Week 6 | Notre Dame | Michigan State | #13 | L0-21 |
| 1960 Regular Week 4 | Notre Dame | Purdue | #7 | L19-51 |
| 1959 Regular Week 12 | Notre Dame | USC | #13 | W16-6 |
| 1959 Regular Week 9 | Notre Dame | Georgia Tech | #15 | L10-14 |
| 1959 Regular Week 7 | Notre Dame | Northwestern | #2 | L24-30 |
| 1959 Regular Week 4 | Notre Dame | Purdue | #7 | L7-28 |
| 1950 Regular Week 3 | San Francisco | Stanford | #6 | L7-55 |
| 1948 Regular Week 4 | San Francisco | Nevada | #10 | L7-26 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Notre Dame
1959-1962 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 9.3 • Win % 42.5%
San Francisco
1948-1951 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 8.2 • Win % 64.1%
- Longest tenure
- Notre Dame • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Notre Dame • 9.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- San Francisco • 64.1%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Joe Kuharich
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Notre Dame
1959-1962 • 17-23
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.3Win % 42.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.3 during vs 6.4 baseline
-2.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.3 during vs 14.0 baseline
-4.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
-55.0%
San Francisco
1948-1951 • 25-14
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 8.2Win % 64.1%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
San Francisco 1951
9-0 • SRS 21.0
Biggest Improvement
San Francisco 1949
7-3 • 24.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
San Francisco 1948
2-7 • SRS -11.0
Biggest Drop
Notre Dame 1959
5-5 • -11.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Notre Dame | 1962 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 12.9 | — | — | — | +2.1 | 0.0% |
| Notre Dame | 1961 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 10.8 | — | — | — | +7.3 | +30.0% |
| Notre Dame | 1960 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | #17 | — | 3.5 | — | — | — | -6.3 | -30.0% |
| Notre Dame | 1959 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | #16 | #17 | 9.8 | — | — | — | -11.2 | -50.0% |
| San Francisco | 1951 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | #14 | 21.0 | — | — | — | +11.6 | +36.4% |
| San Francisco | 1950 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 9.4 | — | — | — | -3.8 | -6.4% |
| San Francisco | 1949 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 13.2 | — | — | — | +24.2 | +47.8% |
| San Francisco | 1948 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | -11.0 | — | — | — | — | — |
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