The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Dave Currey

Followed Watson Brown. Dave Currey slid Cincinnati from Regional Program II to Regional Program III in 5 seasons.

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1984–1988 · 1 stint

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.

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).

Cincinnati, 5 seasons

−9.0

Regional Program III → Regional Program IV.

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.

7–3 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Jimmy Johnson.

Rivalry record

7–3

70.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

5–5

50.0% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–9

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Louisville4–180%

Miami (OH)3–260%

The toughest matchup

vs. Jimmy Johnson0–5

5 meetings, 1984–1988

’84 L’85 L’86 L’87 L’88 L

0% win rate across a real, 5-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

0–9 0.0%

Power Program

0–5 0.0%

National Program

3–10 23.1%

Regional Program

7–10 41.2%

Coaching career

1984–1988

Cincinnaticaretaker

Regional Program II → Regional Program III

Dave Currey slid Cincinnati from Regional Program II to Regional Program III in 5 seasons.

18th-best Cincinnati tenure of 19 by the numbers.

Followed Watson Brown (1983–1983) · succeeded by Tim Murphy (1989–1993).

2 NFL Draft picks: Alex Gordon (1987), Andrew Stewart (1989)

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