Top 25
3-20
- Games
- 23
- Win rate
- 13.0%
Coach Profile
2001-2006 • North Carolina
One defining program at North Carolina.
John Bunting coached 6 seasons, won 37.5%, and posted an average SRS of -0.6. Best season: 2001 North Carolina. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
North Carolina
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 63.6.
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.
Active comparison point
8-5 • SRS 10.7 • SP Overall 12.2
Win %
61.5%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
33.8 / 23.1
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
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 25
3-20
Top 10
1-5
Top 5
1-3
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
North Carolina
2001-2006 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -0.6 • Win % 37.5%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
John Bunting sets the reference point in overall strength.
John Bunting sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
John Bunting
Above average
Above average
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
2001-2006 • 27-45
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 7.2 baseline
-2.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-0.6 during vs 8.7 baseline
-9.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
0.7 during vs 9.4 baseline
-8.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
High Points
Best Season
North Carolina 2001
8-5 • SRS 10.7
Biggest Improvement
North Carolina 2004
6-6 • 10.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
North Carolina 2004
6-6 • SP Off 39.6
Best Defensive Season
North Carolina 2001
8-5 • SP Def 23.1
Setbacks
Worst Season
North Carolina 2006
3-9 • SRS -8.6
Biggest Drop
North Carolina 2002
3-9 • -18.2 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| North Carolina | 2006 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -8.6 | -6.2 | 19.8 | 27.3 | -9.7 | -20.4% |
| North Carolina | 2005 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 1.1 | -3.5 | 19.9 | 23.4 | -4.7 | -4.5% |
| North Carolina | 2004 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 5.8 | 12.8 | 39.6 | 28.7 | +10.8 | +33.3% |
| North Carolina | 2003 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -5.0 | -6.8 | 36.6 | 40.9 | +2.5 | -8.3% |
| North Carolina | 2002 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -7.5 | -4.4 | 30.7 | 34.7 | -18.2 | -36.5% |
| North Carolina | 2001 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 10.7 | 12.2 | 33.8 | 23.1 | — | — |
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