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- Games
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- Win rate
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Coach Profile
Dirk Koetter
1998-2006 • Arizona State, Boise State
2 schools coached, anchored by Arizona State.
Dirk Koetter coached 9 seasons, won 60.0%, and posted an average SRS of 4.6. Best season: 2004 Arizona State. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 66-44
- Career win rate
- 60.0%
- Average SRS
- 4.6
- Peak SRS
- 17.3
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
- 9
- Career span
- 9 years
- Best finish
- #19
- Consistency
- 17.2
Primary school anchor
Arizona State
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 78.8.
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.
Dirk Koetter
EliteStrongAverageLean
Dirk Koetter: 2001 Arizona State
1998Actual season year • SRS range -16.8 to 17.32006
Active comparison point
Dirk Koetter • 2004
2004 Arizona State
Best seasonBiggest improvement9-3 • SRS 17.3 • SP Overall 20.7
Win %
75.0%
YoY SRS
+18.0
SP Off / Def
42.0 / 23.7
Finish
#19
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
1-12
- Games
- 13
- Win rate
- 7.7%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results22
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Arizona State
2001-2006 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 7.8 • Win % 54.0%
Boise State
1998-2000 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -1.7 • Win % 72.2%
- Longest tenure
- Arizona State • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Arizona State • 7.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Boise State • 72.2%
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.
Dirk Koetter sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDirk Koetter sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Dirk Koetter
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 5.8
- Percentile
- 75th 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.
Arizona State
2001-2006 • 40-34
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 7.8Win % 54.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.7 during vs 7.4 baseline
-0.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
7.8 during vs 9.1 baseline
-1.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
9.8 during vs 11.1 baseline
-1.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 40.0% baseline
-23.3%
Boise State
1998-2000 • 26-10
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -1.7Win % 72.2%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Arizona State 2004
9-3 • SRS 17.3
Biggest Improvement
Arizona State 2004
9-3 • 18.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Boise State 2000
10-2 • SP Off 44.1
Best Defensive Season
Arizona State 2006
7-6 • SP Def 19.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
Boise State 1998
6-5 • SRS -16.8
Biggest Drop
Arizona State 2001
4-7 • -9.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Arizona State | 2006 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #24 | — | 8.2 | 13.3 | 31.7 | 19.7 | -3.8 | -4.5% |
| Arizona State | 2005 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #20 | — | 12.0 | 12.5 | 42.4 | 29.9 | -5.3 | -16.7% |
| Arizona State | 2004 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #19 | 17.3 | 20.7 | 42.0 | 23.7 | +18.0 | +33.3% |
| Arizona State | 2003 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #22 | — | -0.7 | 0.0 | 32.1 | 32.6 | -8.4 | -15.5% |
| Arizona State | 2002 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | 7.7 | 10.2 | 42.2 | 34.4 | +5.6 | +20.8% |
| Arizona State | 2001 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 2.1 | 2.2 | 40.8 | 39.1 | -9.0 | -47.0% |
| Boise State | 2000 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | — | — | 11.1 | 7.9 | 44.1 | 37.9 | +10.4 | +6.4% |
| Boise State | 1999 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 0.7 | 4.0 | 34.7 | 32.3 | +17.5 | +22.4% |
| Boise State | 1998 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -16.8 | -18.7 | 32.9 | 45.5 | — | — |
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