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- Games
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- Win rate
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Coach Profile
Art Baker
1973-1988 • East Carolina, Furman, The Citadel
3 schools coached, anchored by Furman.
Art Baker's coaching record is 64-74-5, highlighted by seasons at Furman from 1973 to 1988.
Art Baker coached 13 seasons, won 46.5%, and posted an average SRS of -6.6. Best season: 1976 Furman. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 64-74-5
- Career win rate
- 46.5%
- Average SRS
- -6.6
- Peak SRS
- 3.1
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
- 13
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 73.8
Primary school anchor
Furman
Defense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 41.8.
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.
- Overall record
- 64-74-5
- Furman record
- 27-24-4
- Full-season record
- 64-74-5
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-9
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
143 countable games, 46.5% win rate.
5 countable seasons at Furman.
13 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
9 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
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: Nov 19, 1988. 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.
Art Baker
EliteStrongAverageLean
Art Baker: 1978 The CitadelArt Baker: 1985 East Carolina
1973Actual season year • SRS range -13.6 to 3.11988
Active comparison point
Art Baker • 1976
1976 Furman
Best seasonBiggest improvement6-4-1 • SRS 3.1 • SP Overall 10.2
Win %
59.1%
YoY SRS
+13.4
SP Off / Def
21.8 / 11.8
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.
Top 10
0-9
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results15
| 1988 Regular Week 10 | East Carolina | Miami | #4 | L7-31 |
| 1988 Regular Week 9 | East Carolina | Syracuse | #19 | L14-38 |
| 1988 Regular Week 8 | East Carolina | Florida State | #5 | L21-45 |
| 1988 Regular Week 7 | East Carolina | West Virginia | #7 | L10-30 |
| 1988 Regular Week 4 | East Carolina | South Carolina | #14 | L0-17 |
| 1987 Regular Week 10 | East Carolina | Miami | #3 | L3-41 |
| 1987 Regular Week 9 | East Carolina | South Carolina | #19 | L12-34 |
| 1987 Regular Week 3 | East Carolina | Florida State | #7 | L3-44 |
| 1986 Regular Week 14 | East Carolina | Miami | #1 | L10-36 |
| 1986 Regular Week 5 | East Carolina | Penn State | #5 | L17-42 |
| 1986 Regular Week 4 | East Carolina | Auburn | #8 | L0-45 |
| 1985 Regular Week 15 | East Carolina | LSU | #12 | L15-35 |
| 1985 Regular Week 11 | East Carolina | Auburn | #13 | L10-35 |
| 1985 Regular Week 4 | East Carolina | Penn State | #10 | L10-17 |
| 1980 Regular Week 11 | The Citadel | South Carolina | #14 | L24-45 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
East Carolina
1985-1988 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -4.4 • Win % 27.3%
The Citadel
1978-1981 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -7.7 • Win % 58.0%
Furman
1973-1977 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -7.4 • Win % 52.7%
- Longest tenure
- Furman • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- East Carolina • -4.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- The Citadel • 58.0%
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.
Art Baker sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeArt Baker sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Art Baker
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -6.1
- Percentile
- 38th 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.
East Carolina
1985-1988 • 12-32
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.4Win % 27.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 5.2 baseline
-2.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.4 during vs -2.1 baseline
-2.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.0 during vs -1.4 baseline
-4.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
The Citadel
1978-1981 • 25-18-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.7Win % 58.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 4.8 baseline
+1.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.7 during vs -10.4 baseline
+2.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-4.3 during vs -10.2 baseline
+5.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Furman
1973-1977 • 27-24-4
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.4Win % 52.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.4 during vs 3.4 baseline
+2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.4 during vs -27.0 baseline
+19.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-7.5 during vs -20.0 baseline
+12.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Furman 1976
6-4-1 • SRS 3.1
Biggest Improvement
Furman 1976
6-4-1 • 13.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
East Carolina 1988
3-8 • SP Off 32.4
Best Defensive Season
Furman 1976
6-4-1 • SP Def 11.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Furman 1974
5-6 • SRS -13.6
Biggest Drop
Furman 1977
4-5-2 • -12.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| East Carolina | 1988 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -1.1 | -1.2 | 32.4 | 33.9 | -0.9 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| East Carolina | 1987 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -0.2 | -0.9 | 32.1 | 33.3 | +9.0 | +27.3% | Season summary |
| East Carolina | 1986 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -9.2 | -10.0 | 25.2 | 33.9 | -2.0 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| East Carolina | 1985 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -7.2 | -12.1 | 18.6 | 29.7 | +3.4 | -50.0% | Season summary |
| The Citadel | 1981 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | — | -10.6 | -2.0 | 19.9 | 22.0 | -11.0 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| The Citadel | 1980 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 0.4 | 7.4 | 28.6 | 22.4 | +10.1 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| The Citadel | 1979 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -9.7 | -11.7 | 23.4 | 33.5 | +1.3 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| The Citadel | 1978 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -11.0 | -11.1 | 18.7 | 28.9 | -1.6 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Furman | 1977 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 45.5% | — | — | -9.4 | -17.2 | 16.4 | 33.1 | -12.5 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| Furman | 1976 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 59.1% | — | — | 3.1 | 10.2 | 21.8 | 11.8 | +13.4 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| Furman | 1975 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -10.3 | -10.6 | 15.1 | 25.4 | +3.3 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| Furman | 1974 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -13.6 | -17.2 | 6.3 | 21.0 | -6.8 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| Furman | 1973 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -6.8 | -2.5 | 19.3 | 22.0 | — | — | Season summary |
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Statistical comps
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