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Billy Tohill

Followed Fred Taylor. Billy Tohill held TCU at Regional Program I for 3 seasons.

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1971–1973 · 1 stint
TCU
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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.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerTCUNational Programrespectable, streakyRegional Programthe building-block levelTCU, 1971: 3-1, Regional Program I1971TCU, 1972: 5-6, Regional Program I1972TCU, 1973: 3-8, Regional Program I1973-2.8One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

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).

TCU, 3 seasons
−2.8
Regional Program I → Regional Program I.

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.

1–3 against his rivals.

Rivalry record
1–3
25.0% · 2 rivals
One-score games
3–4
42.9% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–4
0.0%
Rivalry ledger
Baylor1–150%
SMU0–20%
Performance by opponent class
Blue Blood
0–4 0.0%
Power Program
0–3 0.0%
National Program
2–4 33.3%
Regional Program
2–3 40.0%

Coaching career

1971–1973
TCUcaretaker
Regional Program I → Regional Program I
Billy Tohill held TCU at Regional Program I for 3 seasons.

8th-best TCU tenure of 13 by the numbers.

Followed Fred Taylor (1967–1970) · succeeded by Jim Shofner (1974–1976).

1 NFL Draft pick: Guy Morriss (1973)

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