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Coach Profile

Art Baker

1973-1988East Carolina, Furman, The Citadel

3 schools coached, anchored by Furman.

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.

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 Baker1976

Selected

1976 Furman

Best seasonBiggest improvement

6-4-1 • 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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-15

Games
15
Win rate
0.0%

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 10East CarolinaMiami#4L7-31
1988 Regular Week 9East CarolinaSyracuse#19L14-38
1988 Regular Week 8East CarolinaFlorida State#5L21-45
1988 Regular Week 7East CarolinaWest Virginia#7L10-30
1988 Regular Week 4East CarolinaSouth Carolina#14L0-17
1987 Regular Week 10East CarolinaMiami#3L3-41
1987 Regular Week 9East CarolinaSouth Carolina#19L12-34
1987 Regular Week 3East CarolinaFlorida State#7L3-44
1986 Regular Week 14East CarolinaMiami#1L10-36
1986 Regular Week 5East CarolinaPenn State#5L17-42
1986 Regular Week 4East CarolinaAuburn#8L0-45
1985 Regular Week 15East CarolinaLSU#12L15-35
1985 Regular Week 11East CarolinaAuburn#13L10-35
1985 Regular Week 4East CarolinaPenn State#10L10-17
1980 Regular Week 11The CitadelSouth Carolina#14L24-45

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

1985-19884 seasons

Avg SRS -4.4 • Win % 27.3%

The Citadel

1978-19814 seasons

Avg SRS -7.7 • Win % 58.0%

Furman

1973-19775 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 edge

Art 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

1985-198812-32

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

1978-198125-18-1

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

1973-197727-24-4

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

6-4-1SRS 3.1

Biggest Improvement

Furman 1976

6-4-113.4 SRS

Best Offensive Season

East Carolina 1988

3-8SP Off 32.4

Best Defensive Season

Furman 1976

6-4-1SP Def 11.8

Setbacks

Worst Season

Furman 1974

5-6SRS -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 Carolina19881138027.3%-1.1-1.232.433.9-0.9-18.2%
East Carolina19871156045.5%-0.2-0.932.133.3+9.0+27.3%
East Carolina19861129018.2%-9.2-10.025.233.9-2.00.0%
East Carolina19851129018.2%-7.2-12.118.629.7+3.4-50.0%
The Citadel19811173168.2%-10.6-2.019.922.0-11.0+4.5%
The Citadel19801174063.6%0.47.428.622.4+10.1+9.1%
The Citadel19791165054.5%-9.7-11.723.433.5+1.3+9.1%
The Citadel19781156045.5%-11.0-11.118.728.9-1.60.0%
Furman19771145245.5%-9.4-17.216.433.1-12.5-13.6%
Furman19761164159.1%3.110.221.811.8+13.4+9.1%
Furman19751155150.0%-10.3-10.615.125.4+3.3+4.5%
Furman19741156045.5%-13.6-17.26.321.0-6.8-18.2%
Furman19731174063.6%-6.8-2.519.322.0

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