F. Dry

F. Dry went 43–⁠69–⁠4 as a head coach, 1972–⁠1982, at Tulsa and TCU.

Record
43–⁠69–⁠4 career
Seasons
11
Schools
2
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1974 8–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1588 in 1974
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1972Tulsa 1st season, final 5 games3–⁠2T–4th
1973Tulsa6–⁠5T–1st
1974Tulsa8–⁠31st19
1975Tulsa7–⁠41st
1976Tulsa7–⁠4–⁠1T–1stIndependence Bowl L
1977TCU2–⁠96th
1978TCU2–⁠97th
1979TCU2–⁠8–⁠18th
1980TCU1–⁠107th
1981TCU2–⁠7–⁠28th
1982TCU3–⁠87th

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.

Players he coached

Every player from his seasons with a Heisman top-five finish, a national award, consensus All-America honors or a first-round pick.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams264–⁠22
Against top-10 teams120–⁠12
Against rivals312–⁠27–⁠2
Conference games7125–⁠43–⁠3
Bowls and playoffs10–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer4116–⁠21–⁠4
At home5626–⁠28–⁠2
On the road5917–⁠40–⁠2
At neutral sites10–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite3525–⁠9–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog8118–⁠60–⁠3

His own 116 games on file, 1972–⁠1982, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Against other head coaches

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Bill Yeoman 1973–⁠19821–⁠8Houston9
Grant Teaff 1977–⁠19821–⁠5Baylor6
Lou Holtz 1977–⁠19821–⁠5Arkansas6
Fred Akers 1977–⁠19820–⁠6Texas6
Ray Alborn 1978–⁠19822–⁠3Rice5
Ron Meyer 1977–⁠19810–⁠5SMU5
Jack Wallace 1973–⁠19764–⁠0Drake4
Jim Bradley 1973–⁠19764–⁠0New Mexico State4
Vince Gibson 1973–⁠19762–⁠2Kansas State, Louisville4
Frank Broyles 1973–⁠19761–⁠3Arkansas4

F. Dry’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Arkansasseries102–⁠8
Houstonseries91–⁠8
Riceseries63–⁠3
Baylorseries61–⁠5
Texas Techseries61–⁠3–⁠2
Texas A&Mseries60–⁠6
Texasseries60–⁠6
SMUseries60–⁠6

Career

YearsTeamJob
1966–⁠70Houston Oilers NFLAssistant coach
1972–⁠76TulsaHead coach
1977–⁠82TCUHead coach
1984–⁠92BaylorAssistant coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

F. Dry

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (1)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Grant TeaffBaylor1984–⁠92Assistant coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Doug GerhartTulsa, 1972: offensive backs coachOccidental
Pete CordelliTCU, 1979: quarterbacks coachKent State
Phil BennettTCU, 1982: tight ends and tackles coachSMU, Pittsburgh, North Texas
Other assistants under him (2)
CoachWith him
Bob JunkoTCU, 1977–⁠82: defensive coordinator
Harold RichardsonTCU, 1977–⁠78: defensive ends coach

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.