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Rich Brooks

1977-2009 • Kentucky, Oregon

2 schools coached, anchored by Oregon.

Rich Brooks's coaching record is 130-156-4, highlighted by seasons at Oregon from 1977 to 2009.

Rich Brooks coached 25 seasons, won 45.5%, and posted an average SRS of 2.9. Best season: 1980 Oregon. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record
130-156-4
Career win rate
45.5%
Average SRS
2.9
Peak SRS
15.1

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
25
Career span
33 years
Best finish
#11
Consistency
46.1

Primary school anchor

Oregon

Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 73.9.

Quick Answers

Records fans search first

Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Rich Brooks
Overall record
130-156-4

290 countable games, 45.5% win rate.

Oregon record
91-109-4

18 countable seasons at Oregon.

Full-season record
130-156-4

25 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Vs AP Top 25
12-65-2

79 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
3-31-1

35 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
1-15

16 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs Oregon State
14-3-1

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Postseason / bowl record
4-4

8 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.

Record definition and data status

Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.

Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.

Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Dec 28, 2009. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.

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.

Rich Brooks
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Rich Brooks: 2003 Kentucky
1977Actual season year • SRS range -10.5 to 15.12009

Active comparison point

Rich Brooks • 1980

Selected

1980 Oregon

Best season

6-3-2 • SRS 15.1 • SP Overall 14.9

Win %

63.6%

YoY SRS

+11.7

SP Off / Def

32.0 / 18.0

Finish

Unranked

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

12-65-2

Games
79
Win rate
16.5%

Top 10

3-31-1

Games
35
Win rate
10.0%

Top 5

1-15

Games
16
Win rate
6.3%
View ranked game results79
2009 Regular Week 6KentuckySouth Carolina#25L26-28
2009 Regular Week 5KentuckyAlabama#3L20-38
2009 Regular Week 4KentuckyFlorida#1L7-41
2009 Postseason Week 1KentuckyClemson#24L13-21
2008 Regular Week 11KentuckyGeorgia#14L38-42
2008 Regular Week 9KentuckyFlorida#5L5-63
2008 Regular Week 6KentuckyAlabama#2L14-17
2007 Regular Week 13KentuckyTennessee#19L50-52
2007 Regular Week 12KentuckyGeorgia#8L13-24
2007 Regular Week 8KentuckyFlorida#14L37-45
2007 Regular Week 7KentuckyLSU#1W43-37
2007 Regular Week 6KentuckySouth Carolina#11L23-38
2007 Regular Week 3KentuckyLouisville#9W40-34
2006 Regular Week 13KentuckyTennessee#19L12-17
2006 Regular Week 7KentuckyLSU#14L0-49
2006 Regular Week 4KentuckyFlorida#5L7-26
2005 Regular Week 12KentuckyGeorgia#14L13-45
2005 Regular Week 10KentuckyAuburn#17L27-49
2005 Regular Week 4KentuckyFlorida#5L28-49
2004 Regular Week 14KentuckyTennessee#15L31-37
2004 Regular Week 11KentuckyGeorgia#8L17-62
2004 Regular Week 9KentuckyAuburn#3L10-42
2004 Regular Week 5KentuckyFlorida#16L3-20
2003 Regular Week 15KentuckyTennessee#7L7-20
2003 Regular Week 14KentuckyGeorgia#6L10-30
2003 Regular Week 6KentuckyFlorida#25L21-24
1994 Regular Week 10OregonArizona#11W10-9
1994 Regular Week 9OregonWashington#9W31-20
1994 Regular Week 7OregonWashington State#22L7-21
1994 Regular Week 6OregonUSC#19W22-7
1994 Postseason Week 1OregonPenn State#2L20-38
1993 Regular Week 11OregonArizona#14L10-31
1993 Regular Week 9OregonWashington#22L6-21
1993 Regular Week 6OregonCalifornia#17L41-42
1992 Regular Week 10OregonWashington State#19W34-17
1992 Regular Week 8OregonWashington#1L3-24
1992 Regular Week 7OregonUSC#20L10-32
1992 Regular Week 3OregonStanford#21L7-21
1992 Postseason Week 1OregonWake Forest#25L35-39
1991 Regular Week 9OregonWashington#3L7-29
1991 Regular Week 7OregonCalifornia#13L7-45
1990 Regular Week 8OregonWashington#13L17-38
1990 Regular Week 6OregonBYU#11W32-16
1990 Regular Week 5OregonArizona#16L17-22
1989 Regular Week 10OregonBYU#23L41-45
1989 Regular Week 6OregonWashington State#21L38-51
1989 Regular Week 5OregonArizona#17W16-10
1989 Regular Week 3OregonIowa#24W44-6
1988 Regular Week 11OregonUCLA#6L6-16
1988 Regular Week 9OregonWashington#17W17-14
1988 Regular Week 7OregonUSC#3L14-42
1987 Regular Week 8OregonUCLA#8L10-41
1987 Regular Week 4OregonOhio State#7L14-24
1986 Regular Week 9OregonWashington#6L3-38
1986 Regular Week 8OregonStanford#19L7-41
1986 Regular Week 7OregonArizona State#10L17-37
1986 Regular Week 6OregonUSC#9L21-35
1986 Regular Week 5OregonNebraska#3L14-48
1986 Regular Week 4OregonArizona#10L17-41
1985 Regular Week 5OregonNebraska#16L0-63
1984 Regular Week 9OregonWashington#1L10-17
1983 Regular Week 9OregonWashington#11L3-32
1983 Regular Week 8OregonArizona#19W19-10
1983 Regular Week 3OregonOhio State#6L6-31
1982 Regular Week 9OregonUCLA#11L12-40
1982 Regular Week 8OregonNotre Dame#15T13-13
1982 Regular Week 5OregonUSC#16L7-38
1982 Regular Week 4OregonWashington#1L21-37
1981 Regular Week 4OregonWashington#16L3-17
1980 Regular Week 11OregonUCLA#17W20-14
1980 Regular Week 8OregonUSC#8T7-7
1980 Regular Week 2OregonStanford#13L25-35
1979 Regular Week 5OregonPurdue#12L7-13
1979 Regular Week 4OregonWashington#9L17-21
1979 Regular Week 3OregonMichigan State#8L17-41
1978 Regular Week 10OregonUCLA#9L21-23
1978 Regular Week 3OregonUSC#7L10-37
1977 Regular Week 7OregonUSC#5L15-33
1977 Regular Week 2OregonGeorgia#17L16-27

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Kentucky

2003-2009 • 7 seasons

Avg SRS 0.6 • Win % 45.4%

Oregon

1977-1994 • 18 seasons

Avg SRS 3.8 • Win % 45.6%

Longest tenure
Oregon • 18 seasons
Best tenure
Oregon • 3.8 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Oregon • 45.6%

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.

Rich Brooks sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Rich Brooks sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Rich Brooks

Above average

Raw avg SP Overall
1.7
Percentile
64th pct

Above average

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.

Kentucky

2003-2009 • 39-47

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 0.6Win % 45.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.6 during vs 4.8 baseline

+0.8

Avg SRS

Higher is better

0.6 during vs 1.0 baseline

-0.3

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-1.2 during vs 2.7 baseline

-3.9

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Oregon

1977-1994 • 91-109-4

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 3.8Win % 45.6%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.1 during vs 3.0 baseline

+2.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

3.8 during vs -1.5 baseline

+5.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

2.8 during vs -5.9 baseline

+8.7

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

5.6% during vs 0.0% baseline

+5.6%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Oregon 1980

6-3-2 • SRS 15.1

Biggest Improvement

Kentucky 2006

8-5 • 14.8 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Kentucky 2007

8-5 • SP Off 38.8

Best Defensive Season

Oregon 1982

2-8-1 • SP Def 17.5

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Kentucky 2005

3-8 • SRS -10.5

Biggest Drop

Oregon 1981

2-9 • -19.5 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Kentucky20091376053.8%——6.72.123.823.1+4.70.0%Season summary
Kentucky20081376053.8%——2.0-1.818.119.5-9.3-7.7%Season summary
Kentucky20071385061.5%——11.313.438.824.9+7.00.0%Season summary
Kentucky20061385061.5%——4.31.733.330.8+14.8+34.3%Season summary
Kentucky20051138027.3%——-10.5-12.521.433.9-2.3+9.1%Season summary
Kentucky20041129018.2%——-8.2-7.125.432.0-7.1-15.2%Season summary
Kentucky20031248033.3%——-1.1-4.531.935.3-14.0-35.9%Season summary
Oregon19941394069.2%—#1112.914.933.219.4+3.6+23.8%Season summary
Oregon19931156045.5%——9.37.733.027.0+2.6-4.5%Season summary
Oregon19921266050.0%——6.77.527.821.3+5.7+22.7%Season summary
Oregon19911138027.3%——1.00.724.023.5-10.1-39.4%Season summary
Oregon19901284066.7%——11.114.233.219.8-1.00.0%Season summary
Oregon19891284066.7%——12.113.038.026.6+6.2+16.7%Season summary
Oregon19881266050.0%——5.98.130.123.3+2.4-4.5%Season summary
Oregon19871165054.5%——3.56.628.022.5+1.9+9.1%Season summary
Oregon19861156045.5%——1.63.733.231.2-0.50.0%Season summary
Oregon19851156045.5%——2.12.532.731.6+3.2-9.1%Season summary
Oregon19841165054.5%——-1.1-0.527.027.6+5.1+13.6%Season summary
Oregon19831146140.9%——-6.2-10.215.425.2-5.8+18.2%Season summary
Oregon19821128122.7%——-0.4-0.916.517.5+4.0+4.5%Season summary
Oregon19811129018.2%——-4.4-10.217.026.9-19.5-45.5%Season summary
Oregon19801163263.6%——15.114.932.018.0+11.7+9.1%Season summary
Oregon19791165054.5%——3.4-3.820.624.5-2.0+36.4%Season summary
Oregon19781129018.2%——5.41.421.320.0+14.40.0%Season summary
Oregon19771129018.2%——-9.0-18.521.837.5——Season summary

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Best finish #8 • Volatility 8.0

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avg SRS within 1.5 • volatility within 0.9

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Best finish #5 • Volatility 7.8

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