Wow......what hits me the most is only 15 wins against teams that finished the season with a winning record. 15 wins in 3 years! That is not good at any level, no matter which school's team you coach.
That's what surprised me too...here's the breakdown of that too..games we won where the team ended up with a winning record
06-07
UL-Monroe (18-14), North Dakota State (20-8), Missouri (18-12), Nebraska (2x..17-14), Oklahoma (16-15)
07-08
Purdue (25-9), Oklahoma State (17-16), Nebraska (20-13)
08-09
Milwaukee (17-14), Northern Iowa (23-11), Houston (21-12), Mercer (17-15), Nebraska (18-13), Baylor (24-15)
Overall (over 3 years)
Average record over those three seasons of opponents:
19.4 - 12.9
If you take away only TWO of our marquee wins which would be Purdue and Baylor from last year...
the average record goes to:
18.5 - 13.1
Avg opponent record from power conference teams:
19.4 - 12.3
Avg opponent record from power conference excluding Purdue and Baylor games:
17.7 - 13.8
06-07 to 07-08 Averages
Average opponent record :
18.9 - 12.6
Average record excluding Purdue:
18 - 13.1
Avg opponent record from power conference teams:
18.8 - 13.2
Avg opponent record from power conference excluding Purdue:
17.6 - 14
07-08 to 08-09 Averages
Average opponent record:
20.2 - 13.1
Average record excluding Purdue and Baylor:
19 - 13.4
Avg opponent record from power conference teams:
20.8 - 13.2
Avg opponent record from power conference excluding Purdue and Baylor:
18.3 - 14
The reason I computed some statistics without the Purdue and Baylor wins is because the cardinality of this set (the size) is so low, that those games greatly inflate the averages. Just look at the last statistics...the average wins went down by almost 2.5 games when taking out those TWO games.
NDSU's 06-07 is a little inflated too..this was a year they were transitioning to D1 and were in the "independent" league. That record includes playing 3 less than D1 teams, plus 12 of those games were against their "conference" opponents in IPFW, Utah Valley, Texas-Pan American, NJIT, South Dakota State, and Winston Salem. They were good that year still..
Also 06-07 a number of wins we had were basically all because of Mike Taylor (i.e. the Minnesota game we won by 5 where MN ended up 9-22 that year).