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Gary Blackney

1991-2000 • Bowling Green

One defining program at Bowling Green.

Gary Blackney coached 10 seasons, won 54.5%, and posted an average SRS of -7.5. Best season: 1994 Bowling Green. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record
60-50-2
Career win rate
54.5%
Average SRS
-7.5
Peak SRS
2.1

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
58.0

Primary school anchor

Bowling Green

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 39.7.

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.

Gary Blackney
EliteStrongAverageLean
1991Actual season year • SRS range -16.6 to 2.12000

Active comparison point

Gary Blackney • 1994

Selected

1994 Bowling Green

Best seasonBiggest improvement

9-2 • SRS 2.1 • SP Overall 9.6

Win %

81.8%

YoY SRS

+8.9

SP Off / Def

35.4 / 27.7

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

0-8

Games
8
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-3

Games
3
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
—
View ranked game results8
2000 Regular Week 2Bowling GreenMichigan#6L7-42
1998 Regular Week 3Bowling GreenPenn State#8L3-48
1998 Regular Week 2Bowling GreenMissouri#25L0-37
1997 Regular Week 10Bowling GreenToledo#24L20-35
1997 Regular Week 6Bowling GreenKansas State#18L0-58
1997 Regular Week 4Bowling GreenOhio State#9L13-44
1996 Regular Week 2Bowling GreenAlabama#13L7-21
1992 Regular Week 3Bowling GreenOhio State#22L6-17

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Bowling Green

1991-2000 • 10 seasons

Avg SRS -7.5 • Win % 54.5%

Longest tenure
Bowling Green • 10 seasons
Best tenure
Bowling Green • -7.5 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Bowling Green • 54.5%

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.

Gary Blackney sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Gary Blackney sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Gary Blackney

Mixed

Raw avg SP Overall
-2.1
Percentile
50th pct

Mixed

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.

Bowling Green

1991-2000 • 60-50-2

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -7.5Win % 54.5%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.0 during vs 4.0 baseline

+2.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-7.5 during vs -18.4 baseline

+10.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-2.1 during vs -13.0 baseline

+10.9

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Bowling Green 1994

9-2 • SRS 2.1

Biggest Improvement

Bowling Green 1994

9-2 • 8.9 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Bowling Green 1994

9-2 • SP Off 35.4

Best Defensive Season

Bowling Green 1991

11-1 • SP Def 18.7

Setbacks

Worst Season

Bowling Green 1996

4-7 • SRS -16.6

Biggest Drop

Bowling Green 1995

5-6 • -12.4 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Bowling Green20001129018.2%——-15.4-15.018.632.4-4.0-27.3%
Bowling Green19991156045.5%——-11.4-11.829.037.9-6.20.0%
Bowling Green19981156045.5%——-5.24.835.432.4+5.7+18.2%
Bowling Green19971138027.3%——-10.9-6.726.832.7+5.7-9.1%
Bowling Green19961147036.4%——-16.6-14.416.229.2-6.3-9.1%
Bowling Green19951156045.5%——-10.3-11.619.830.2-12.4-36.4%
Bowling Green19941192081.8%——2.19.635.427.7+8.9+18.2%
Bowling Green19931163263.6%——-6.86.126.721.6-6.4-19.7%
Bowling Green199212102083.3%——-0.410.232.724.00.0-8.3%
Bowling Green199112111091.7%——-0.47.925.918.7——

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