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- Win rate
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F Dry
1972-1982 • TCU, Tulsa
2 schools coached, anchored by TCU.
F Dry's coaching record is 43-69-4, highlighted by seasons at TCU from 1972 to 1982.
F Dry coached 11 seasons, won 38.8%, and posted an average SRS of -1.4. Best season: 1974 Tulsa. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 43-69-4
- Career win rate
- 38.8%
- Average SRS
- -1.4
- Peak SRS
- 7.8
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
- 11 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 59.2
Primary school anchor
TCU
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 55.9.
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
- 43-69-4
- TCU record
- 12-51-3
- Full-season record
- 40-67-4
- Partial-season record
- 3-2
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-14
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-5
- Vs Baylor
- 1-5
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
116 countable games, 38.8% win rate.
6 countable seasons at TCU.
10 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
14 games using AP ranking at game time.
5 games using AP ranking at game time.
Bluebonnet Battle games in this dataset.
1 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 20, 1982. 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.
F Dry
EliteStrongAverageLean
F Dry: 1977 TCU
1972Actual season year • SRS range -12.9 to 7.81982
Active comparison point
F Dry • 1974
1974 Tulsa
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-3 • SRS 7.8 • SP Overall 10.3
Win %
72.7%
YoY SRS
+10.4
SP Off / Def
31.5 / 22.5
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
0-14
- Games
- 14
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results26
| 1982 Regular Week 11 | TCU | Texas | #20 | L21-38 |
| 1982 Regular Week 5 | TCU | Arkansas | #10 | L0-35 |
| 1982 Regular Week 4 | TCU | SMU | #6 | L13-16 |
| 1981 Regular Week 11 | TCU | Texas | #10 | L15-31 |
| 1981 Regular Week 5 | TCU | Arkansas | #19 | W28-24 |
| 1981 Regular Week 4 | TCU | SMU | #20 | L9-20 |
| 1980 Regular Week 12 | TCU | Texas | #20 | L26-51 |
| 1980 Regular Week 9 | TCU | Baylor | #10 | L6-21 |
| 1980 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Arkansas | #15 | L7-44 |
| 1980 Regular Week 5 | TCU | Georgia | #8 | L3-34 |
| 1980 Regular Week 3 | TCU | Auburn | #19 | L7-10 |
| 1979 Regular Week 12 | TCU | Texas | #6 | L10-35 |
| 1979 Regular Week 10 | TCU | Houston | #5 | L10-21 |
| 1979 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Arkansas | #12 | L13-16 |
| 1979 Regular Week 3 | TCU | SMU | #18 | L7-27 |
| 1978 Regular Week 12 | TCU | Texas | #9 | L0-41 |
| 1978 Regular Week 10 | TCU | Houston | #8 | L6-63 |
| 1978 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Arkansas | #3 | L3-42 |
| 1978 Regular Week 5 | TCU | Penn State | #5 | L0-58 |
| 1977 Regular Week 12 | TCU | Texas A&M | #12 | L23-52 |
| 1977 Regular Week 11 | TCU | Texas | #1 | L14-44 |
| 1977 Regular Week 10 | TCU | Texas Tech | #18 | L17-49 |
| 1977 Regular Week 5 | TCU | Arkansas | #7 | L6-42 |
| 1977 Regular Week 4 | TCU | USC | #2 | L0-51 |
| 1974 Regular Week 13 | Tulsa | Houston | #15 | W30-14 |
| 1973 Regular Week 14 | Tulsa | Houston | #14 | L16-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
TCU
1977-1982 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -4.0 • Win % 20.4%
Tulsa
1972-1976 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 1.7 • Win % 63.0%
- Longest tenure
- TCU • 6 seasons
- Best tenure
- Tulsa • 1.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Tulsa • 63.0%
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.
F Dry sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeF Dry sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
F Dry
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -2.9
- Percentile
- 47th 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.
TCU
1977-1982 • 12-51-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.0Win % 20.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.0 during vs 2.0 baseline
+0.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.0 during vs -5.4 baseline
+1.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.4 during vs -9.4 baseline
+1.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Tulsa
1972-1976 • 31-18-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 1.7Win % 63.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 4.2 baseline
+2.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.9 during vs -6.6 baseline
+10.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.5 during vs -7.1 baseline
+13.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Tulsa 1974
8-3 • SRS 7.8
Biggest Improvement
Tulsa 1974
8-3 • 10.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Tulsa 1975
7-4 • SP Off 33.0
Best Defensive Season
TCU 1979
2-8-1 • SP Def 18.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
TCU 1977
2-9 • SRS -12.9
Biggest Drop
TCU 1977
2-9 • -15.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| TCU | 1982 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -6.1 | -10.0 | 21.6 | 30.5 | -8.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1981 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 27.3% | — | — | 2.1 | -1.2 | 29.0 | 30.4 | +6.6 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1980 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -4.5 | -8.6 | 20.0 | 28.2 | -5.9 | -13.6% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1979 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 22.7% | — | — | 1.4 | 0.4 | 18.8 | 18.8 | +5.1 | +4.5% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1978 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -3.7 | -8.0 | 22.2 | 29.7 | +9.2 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| TCU | 1977 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -12.9 | -22.8 | 24.4 | 42.3 | -15.9 | -44.3% | Season summary |
| Tulsa | 1976 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 62.5% | — | — | 3.0 | 8.2 | 26.8 | 19.4 | -4.3 | -1.1% | Season summary |
| Tulsa | 1975 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 7.3 | 6.5 | 33.0 | 28.3 | -0.5 | -9.1% | Season summary |
| Tulsa | 1974 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 7.8 | 10.3 | 31.5 | 22.5 | +10.4 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Tulsa | 1973 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -2.6 | 1.2 | 25.4 | 24.7 | +4.6 | -5.5% | Season summary |
| Tulsa | 1972 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | -7.2 | -8.1 | 23.7 | 31.3 | — | — | Partial season |
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