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Joe Kines

1992-1992Arkansas

One defining program at Arkansas.

Joe Kines coached 1 seasons, won 35.0%, and posted an average SRS of 1.7. Best season: 1992 Arkansas. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
3-6-1
Career win rate
35.0%
Average SRS
1.7
Peak SRS
1.7

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
1
Career span
1 years
Best finish
Consistency

Primary school anchor

Arkansas

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 38.9.

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 Kines
EliteStrongAverageLean
1991Actual season year • SRS range 0.7 to 2.71993

Active comparison point

Joe Kines1992

Selected

1992 Arkansas

Best seasonWorst season

3-6-1 • SRS 1.7 • SP Overall 7.4

Win %

35.0%

YoY SRS

SP Off / Def

25.1 / 18.8

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

1-3

Games
4
Win rate
25.0%

Top 10

1-1

Games
2
Win rate
50.0%

Top 5

1-0

Games
1
Win rate
100.0%
View ranked game results4
1992 Regular Week 11ArkansasMississippi State#19L3-10
1992 Regular Week 7ArkansasTennessee#4W25-24
1992 Regular Week 6ArkansasGeorgia#16L3-27
1992 Regular Week 4ArkansasAlabama#9L11-38

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Arkansas

1992-19921 seasons

Avg SRS 1.7 • Win % 35.0%

Longest tenure
Arkansas • 1 seasons
Best tenure
Arkansas • 1.7 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Arkansas • 35.0%

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.

Joe Kines sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Joe Kines sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Joe Kines

Strong

Raw avg SP Overall
7.4
Percentile
79th pct

Strong

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.

Arkansas

1992-19923-6-1

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

Avg SRS 1.7Win % 35.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

3.0 during vs 7.6 baseline

-4.6

Avg SRS

Higher is better

1.7 during vs 6.4 baseline

-4.7

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

7.4 during vs 9.1 baseline

-1.7

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline

-40.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Arkansas 1992

3-6-1SRS 1.7

Biggest Improvement

Unavailable

Best Offensive Season

Arkansas 1992

3-6-1SP Off 25.1

Best Defensive Season

Arkansas 1992

3-6-1SP Def 18.8

Setbacks

Worst Season

Arkansas 1992

3-6-1SRS 1.7

Biggest Drop

Unavailable

Season-by-season results

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

Arkansas19921036135.0%1.77.425.118.8

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