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Foge Fazio

1982-1985Pittsburgh

One defining program at Pittsburgh.

Foge Fazio coached 4 seasons, won 57.6%, and posted an average SRS of 9.7. Best season: 1982 Pittsburgh. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
25-18-3
Career win rate
57.6%
Average SRS
9.7
Peak SRS
20.0

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
#10
Consistency
36.3

Primary school anchor

Pittsburgh

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 84.2.

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.

Foge Fazio
EliteStrongAverageLean
1982Actual season year • SRS range 1.1 to 20.01985

Active comparison point

Foge Fazio1982

Selected

1982 Pittsburgh

Best season

9-3 • SRS 20.0 • SP Overall 22.7

Win %

75.0%

YoY SRS

SP Off / Def

32.1 / 10.3

Finish

#10

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

3-11

Games
14
Win rate
21.4%

Top 10

1-7

Games
8
Win rate
12.5%

Top 5

1-4

Games
5
Win rate
20.0%
View ranked game results14
1985 Regular Week 13PittsburghPenn State#1L0-31
1985 Regular Week 3PittsburghOhio State#9L7-10
1984 Regular Week 9PittsburghMiami#8L7-27
1984 Regular Week 8PittsburghSouth Carolina#11L21-45
1984 Regular Week 4PittsburghOklahoma#11L10-42
1984 Regular Week 2PittsburghBYU#13L14-20
1983 Regular Week 6PittsburghWest Virginia#5L21-24
1983 Regular Week 5PittsburghMaryland#19L7-13
1983 Postseason Week 1PittsburghOhio State#9L23-28
1982 Regular Week 13PittsburghPenn State#2L10-19
1982 Regular Week 5PittsburghWest Virginia#14W16-13
1982 Regular Week 4PittsburghIllinois#19W20-3
1982 Regular Week 2PittsburghNorth Carolina#5W7-6
1982 Postseason Week 1PittsburghSMU#2L3-7

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Pittsburgh

1982-19854 seasons

Avg SRS 9.7 • Win % 57.6%

Longest tenure
Pittsburgh • 4 seasons
Best tenure
Pittsburgh • 9.7 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Pittsburgh • 57.6%

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.

Foge Fazio sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Foge Fazio sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Foge Fazio

Strong

Raw avg SP Overall
9.4
Percentile
84th 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.

Pittsburgh

1982-198525-18-3

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

Avg SRS 9.7Win % 57.6%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.3 during vs 10.0 baseline

-3.8

Avg SRS

Higher is better

9.7 during vs 22.1 baseline

-12.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

9.4 during vs 26.0 baseline

-16.6

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

50.0% during vs 80.0% baseline

-30.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Pittsburgh 1982

9-3SRS 20.0

Biggest Improvement

Pittsburgh 1985

5-5-12.8 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Pittsburgh 1982

9-3SP Off 32.1

Best Defensive Season

Pittsburgh 1982

9-3SP Def 10.3

Setbacks

Worst Season

Pittsburgh 1984

3-7-1SRS 1.1

Biggest Drop

Pittsburgh 1984

3-7-1-12.7 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Pittsburgh19851155150.0%3.90.821.320.5+2.8+18.2%
Pittsburgh19841137131.8%#31.1-0.323.423.4-12.7-39.0%
Pittsburgh19831283170.8%#1813.814.529.515.5-6.2-4.2%
Pittsburgh19821293075.0%#1#1020.022.732.110.3

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