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0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Bill Blankenship
2011-2014 • Tulsa
One defining program at Tulsa.
Bill Blankenship coached 4 seasons, won 47.1%, and posted an average SRS of -5.9. Best season: 2011 Tulsa. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 24-27
- Career win rate
- 47.1%
- Average SRS
- -5.9
- Peak SRS
- 5.5
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 8.0
Primary school anchor
Tulsa
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 49.0.
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
- 24-27
- Tulsa record
- 24-27
- Full-season record
- 24-27
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Vs Oklahoma State
- 0-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
51 countable games, 47.1% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Tulsa.
4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
Oklahoma State-Tulsa games in this dataset.
2 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 29, 2014. 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.
Bill Blankenship
EliteStrongAverageLean
2011Actual season year • SRS range -18.3 to 5.52014
Active comparison point
Bill Blankenship • 2011
2011 Tulsa
Best season8-5 • SRS 5.5 • SP Overall 2.5
Win %
61.5%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
29.8 / 27.3
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
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Tulsa
2011-2014 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -5.9 • Win % 47.1%
- Longest tenure
- Tulsa • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Tulsa • -5.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Tulsa • 47.1%
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.
Bill Blankenship sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBill Blankenship sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bill Blankenship
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -7.3
- Percentile
- 34th 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.
Tulsa
2011-2014 • 24-27
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -5.9Win % 47.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 8.8 baseline
-2.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-5.9 during vs 1.6 baseline
-7.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-7.3 during vs 1.6 baseline
-8.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Tulsa 2011
8-5 • SRS 5.5
Biggest Improvement
Tulsa 2012
11-3 • -0.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Tulsa 2011
8-5 • SP Off 29.8
Best Defensive Season
Tulsa 2012
11-3 • SP Def 22.4
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Tulsa 2014
2-10 • SRS -18.3
Biggest Drop
Tulsa 2013
3-9 • -20.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Tulsa | 2014 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -18.3 | -15.8 | 23.6 | 37.7 | -2.9 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Tulsa | 2013 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -15.4 | -18.7 | 12.9 | 31.6 | -20.0 | -53.6% | Season summary |
| Tulsa | 2012 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | — | — | 4.6 | 2.6 | 25.7 | 22.4 | -0.9 | +17.0% | Season summary |
| Tulsa | 2011 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 5.5 | 2.5 | 29.8 | 27.3 | — | — | Season summary |
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 10.0
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