Top 25
2-20
- Games
- 22
- Win rate
- 9.1%
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Coach Profile
Fred Goldsmith
1989-1998 • Duke, Rice
2 schools coached, anchored by Rice.
Fred Goldsmith coached 10 seasons, won 36.5%, and posted an average SRS of -3.7. Best season: 1994 Duke. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 40-70-1
- Career win rate
- 36.5%
- Average SRS
- -3.7
- Peak SRS
- 7.1
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
- 10
- Career span
- 10 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 72.9
Primary school anchor
Rice
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 54.2.
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.
Fred Goldsmith
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Fred Goldsmith: 1994 Duke
1989Actual season year • SRS range -14.3 to 7.11998
Active comparison point
Fred Goldsmith • 1994
1994 Duke
Best seasonNew stop: Duke8-4 • SRS 7.1 • SP Overall 8.2
Win %
66.7%
YoY SRS
+8.1
SP Off / Def
36.9 / 30.9
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.
Top 10
1-8
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 11.1%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results22
| 1998 Regular Week 5 | Duke | Virginia | #10 | L0-24 |
| 1998 Regular Week 4 | Duke | Florida State | #10 | L13-62 |
| 1997 Regular Week 14 | Duke | North Carolina | #8 | L14-50 |
| 1997 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Florida State | #4 | L27-51 |
| 1996 Regular Week 14 | Duke | North Carolina | #13 | L10-27 |
| 1996 Regular Week 11 | Duke | Virginia | #16 | L3-27 |
| 1996 Regular Week 3 | Duke | Florida State | #3 | L7-44 |
| 1995 Regular Week 12 | Duke | Clemson | #24 | L17-34 |
| 1995 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Virginia | #19 | L30-44 |
| 1995 Regular Week 5 | Duke | Maryland | #24 | L28-41 |
| 1995 Regular Week 2 | Duke | Florida State | #1 | L26-70 |
| 1994 Regular Week 11 | Duke | Virginia | #13 | W28-25 |
| 1994 Regular Week 10 | Duke | Florida State | #9 | L20-59 |
| 1993 Regular Week 9 | Rice | Texas A&M | #11 | L10-38 |
| 1993 Regular Week 2 | Rice | Ohio State | #18 | L7-34 |
| 1992 Regular Week 8 | Rice | Texas A&M | #5 | L9-35 |
| 1991 Regular Week 10 | Rice | Texas A&M | #12 | L21-38 |
| 1991 Regular Week 7 | Rice | Baylor | #8 | W20-17 |
| 1990 Regular Week 6 | Rice | Houston | #13 | L22-24 |
| 1989 Regular Week 14 | Rice | Houston | #13 | L0-64 |
| 1989 Regular Week 10 | Rice | Arkansas | #11 | L17-38 |
| 1989 Regular Week 9 | Rice | Texas A&M | #21 | L7-45 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Duke
1994-1998 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -4.7 • Win % 30.4%
Rice
1989-1993 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -2.6 • Win % 42.7%
- Longest tenure
- Duke • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Rice • -2.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Rice • 42.7%
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.
Fred Goldsmith sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeFred Goldsmith sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Fred Goldsmith
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -6.8
- Percentile
- 36th pct
Lower end
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.
Duke
1994-1998 • 17-39
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.7Win % 30.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.4 during vs 4.2 baseline
-0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.7 during vs -2.2 baseline
-2.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-7.1 during vs -4.3 baseline
-2.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Rice
1989-1993 • 23-31-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.6Win % 42.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.6 during vs 2.0 baseline
+2.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.6 during vs -11.9 baseline
+9.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.6 during vs -14.2 baseline
+7.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Duke 1994
8-4 • SRS 7.1
Biggest Improvement
Duke 1997
2-9 • 9.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Duke 1994
8-4 • SP Off 36.9
Best Defensive Season
Rice 1990
5-6 • SP Def 30.2
Setbacks
Worst Season
Duke 1996
0-11 • SRS -14.3
Biggest Drop
Duke 1995
3-8 • -12.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Duke | 1998 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -6.3 | -11.7 | 26.6 | 35.9 | -1.7 | +18.2% |
| Duke | 1997 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -4.6 | -5.6 | 29.0 | 34.0 | +9.7 | +18.2% |
| Duke | 1996 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -14.3 | -16.2 | 22.6 | 36.7 | -8.8 | -27.3% |
| Duke | 1995 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -5.5 | -10.0 | 33.0 | 40.0 | -12.6 | -39.4% |
| Duke | 1994 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 7.1 | 8.2 | 36.9 | 30.9 | +8.1 | +12.1% |
| Rice | 1993 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -1.0 | -5.7 | 31.1 | 35.9 | +1.6 | 0.0% |
| Rice | 1992 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -2.6 | -4.9 | 28.4 | 33.1 | +1.7 | +18.2% |
| Rice | 1991 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -4.3 | -9.7 | 25.1 | 33.5 | -4.4 | -9.1% |
| Rice | 1990 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 0.1 | -3.1 | 27.2 | 30.2 | +5.5 | +22.7% |
| Rice | 1989 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 22.7% | — | — | -5.4 | -9.8 | 22.7 | 31.7 | — | — |
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