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- Win rate
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Adrian Lindsey
1927-1938 • Kansas, Oklahoma
2 schools coached, anchored by Kansas.
Adrian Lindsey's coaching record is 38-47-14, highlighted by seasons at Kansas from 1927 to 1938.
Adrian Lindsey coached 11 seasons, won 45.5%, and posted an average SRS of 0.3. Best season: 1933 Kansas. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 38-47-14
- Career win rate
- 45.5%
- Average SRS
- 0.3
- Peak SRS
- 4.8
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
- 11
- Career span
- 12 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 84.8
Primary school anchor
Kansas
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 46.6.
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
- 38-47-14
- Kansas record
- 19-28-8
- Full-season record
- 38-47-14
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-2
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Kansas State
- 2-4
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
99 countable games, 45.5% win rate.
6 countable seasons at Kansas.
11 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Sunflower Showdown games in this dataset.
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 24, 1938. 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.
Adrian Lindsey
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Adrian Lindsey: 1933 Kansas
1927Actual season year • SRS range -8.7 to 4.81938
Active comparison point
Adrian Lindsey • 1933
1933 Kansas
Best seasonNew stop: Kansas5-4-1 • SRS 4.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
55.0%
YoY SRS
+5.4
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
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- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results2
| 1938 Regular Week 5 | Kansas | Oklahoma | #7 | L0-19 |
| 1938 Regular Week 3 | Kansas | Notre Dame | #4 | L0-52 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Kansas
1933-1938 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -0.2 • Win % 41.8%
Oklahoma
1927-1931 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 0.9 • Win % 50.0%
- Longest tenure
- Kansas • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oklahoma • 0.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oklahoma • 50.0%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Adrian Lindsey
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Kansas
1933-1938 • 19-28-8
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -0.2Win % 41.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.2 during vs 4.4 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-0.2 during vs -0.2 baseline
-0.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Oklahoma
1927-1931 • 19-19-6
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.9Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.8 during vs 3.2 baseline
+0.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.9 during vs 4.2 baseline
-3.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Kansas 1933
5-4-1 • SRS 4.8
Biggest Improvement
Kansas 1937
3-4-2 • 7.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Kansas 1936
1-6-1 • SRS -8.7
Biggest Drop
Kansas 1936
1-6-1 • -11.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kansas | 1938 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -2.6 | — | — | — | -0.9 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 1937 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 44.4% | — | — | -1.7 | — | — | — | +7.0 | +25.7% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 1936 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 18.8% | — | — | -8.7 | — | — | — | -11.7 | -31.3% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 1935 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 3.0 | — | — | — | -0.8 | +5.0% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 1934 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 45.0% | — | — | 3.8 | — | — | — | -1.0 | -10.0% | Season summary |
| Kansas | 1933 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 4.8 | — | — | — | +5.4 | +17.5% | Season summary |
| Oklahoma | 1931 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 37.5% | — | — | -0.6 | — | — | — | -4.9 | -18.8% | Season summary |
| Oklahoma | 1930 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 56.3% | — | — | 4.3 | — | — | — | +1.9 | +6.3% | Season summary |
| Oklahoma | 1929 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 50.0% | — | — | 2.4 | — | — | — | +5.7 | -12.5% | Season summary |
| Oklahoma | 1928 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | -3.3 | — | — | — | -5.2 | +12.5% | Season summary |
| Oklahoma | 1927 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 50.0% | — | — | 1.9 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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