The Zeitgeist List · coaching

Gary Tranquill

Followed George Welsh. Gary Tranquill held Navy at Regional Program I for 5 seasons.

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1982–1986 · 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).

Navy, 5 seasons

−5.1

Regional Program I → Regional Program II.

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.

3–7 against his rivals. Just 1–4 against Dick MacPherson.

Rivalry record

3–7

30.0% · 2 rivals

One-score games

4–10–1

26.7% · margin ≤8

vs. Blue Blood or better

0–6

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Air Force0–50%

Army3–260%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Dick MacPherson1–4

5 meetings, 1982–1986

’82 W’83 L’84 L’85 L’86 L

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0–6 0.0%

Power Program

2–5 28.6%

National Program

2–11 15.4%

Regional Program

7–9 43.8%

Coaching career

1982–1986

Navycaretaker

Regional Program I → Regional Program I

Gary Tranquill held Navy at Regional Program I for 5 seasons.

14th-best Navy tenure of 18 by the numbers.

Followed George Welsh (1973–1981) · succeeded by Elliot Uzelac (1987–1989).

1 NFL Draft pick: Napoleon McCallum (1986)

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