Jim Bradley

Jim Bradley went 23–⁠31–⁠1 as a head coach, 1973–⁠1977, at New Mexico State.

Record
23–⁠31–⁠1 career
Seasons
5
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1973 5–⁠6

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1382 in 1974
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1973New Mexico State5–⁠6T–3rd
1974New Mexico State5–⁠65th
1975New Mexico State5–⁠6T–2nd
1976New Mexico State4–⁠6–⁠1T–1st
1977New Mexico State4–⁠73rd

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.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against rivals105–⁠5
Conference games2312–⁠10–⁠1
Decided by 8 points or fewer2210–⁠11–⁠1
At home2613–⁠12–⁠1
On the road2910–⁠19
As our Elo’s favorite2917–⁠11–⁠1
As our Elo’s underdog266–⁠20

His own 55 games on file, 1973–⁠1977, 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
Hayden Fry 1973–⁠19770–⁠5North Texas5
Jack Wallace 1973–⁠19763–⁠1Drake4
Bill Mondt 1974–⁠19771–⁠3New Mexico4
F. Dry 1973–⁠19760–⁠4Tulsa4
Gil Bartosh 1974–⁠19763–⁠0UTEP3
Claude Gilbert 1973–⁠19750–⁠3San Diego State3

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

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Wichita Stateseries55–⁠0
Drakeseries54–⁠1
UTEPseries54–⁠1
West Texasseries52–⁠2–⁠1
New Mexicoseries51–⁠4
Tulsaseries50–⁠5
North Texasseries50–⁠5
Texas–Arlingtonseries43–⁠1

Career

YearsTeamJob
1958–⁠64Las Cruces HS (NM) high schoolAssistant coach
1965–⁠72Mayfield HS (NM) high schoolHead coach
1973–⁠77New Mexico StateHead coach
1980–⁠93Roswell HS (NM) high schoolHead coach
1994–⁠2005Mayfield HS (NM) high schoolHead coach

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

Coaching tree

Jim Bradley

Assistants who became head coaches

Coached under him, later head coaches (2)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Pat BehrnsNew Mexico State, 1973–⁠74: graduate assistantNorth Dakota, Nebraska–Omaha
Rich StublerNew Mexico State, 1975–⁠77: defensive backs coachToronto Argonauts
Other assistants under him (1)
CoachWith him
Ted GillNew Mexico State, 1977: defensive line 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.