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Carl DePasqua

Followed Dave Hart. Carl DePasqua held Pittsburgh at Regional Program II for 4 seasons.

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1969–1972 · 1 stint
Pittsburgh
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Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerPITTSBURGHNational Programrespectable, streakyRegional Programthe building-block levelPittsburgh, 1969: 4-6, Regional Program II1969Pittsburgh, 1970: 5-5, Regional Program II1970Pittsburgh, 1971: 3-8, Regional Program II1971Pittsburgh, 1972: 1-10, Regional Program III1972-0.7One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

Reached Regional Program in his 1st career season — faster than 20% of the 925 FBS coaches who have ever reached Regional Program (rank #1 of 925 by seasons-to-arrival).

Pittsburgh, 4 seasons
−0.7
Regional Program II → Regional Program III.

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

1–7 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Ara Parseghian.

Rivalry record
1–7
12.5% · 2 rivals
One-score games
7–4
63.6% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–4
0.0%
Rivalry ledger
West Virginia1–325%
Penn State0–40%
The toughest matchup
vs. Ara Parseghian0–4
4 meetings, 1969–1972
’69 L’70 L’71 L’72 L
0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.
Performance by opponent class
Blue Blood
0–4 0.0%
Power Program
3–10 23.1%
National Program
5–10 33.3%
Regional Program
4–5 44.4%

Coaching career

1969–1972
Pittsburghcaretaker
Regional Program II → Regional Program II
Carl DePasqua held Pittsburgh at Regional Program II for 4 seasons.

23rd-best Pittsburgh tenure of 23 by the numbers.

Followed Dave Hart (1966–1968) · succeeded by Johnny Majors (1973–1996).

6 NFL Draft picks: Harry Orszulak (1969), Charles Hall (1971), Bryant Salter (1971), Dennis Ferris (1971), Robert Kuziel (1972), Ralph Cindrich (1972)

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