Rick Forzano: coaching record and career

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

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.

2-4 against his rivals. Winless in 4 tries against Ara Parseghian.

Rivalry record

2-4

33.3% · 2 rivals

One-score games

7-7

50.0% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-5

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Army1-325%

Air Force1-150%

The toughest matchup

vs. Ara Parseghian0-4

4 meetings, 1969–1972

’69 L’70 L’71 L’72 L

0% win rate across a real, 4-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0-5 0.0%

Power Program

1-9 10.0%

National Program

4-13 23.5%

Regional Program

5-6 45.5%

Building the roster

One numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1969-1972) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

Career

Coaching career

NFL head coach: Lions 1974–76 · 15-17 source

See Navy’s full coaching history →

The arc of his career is on Now.

Steady no large move in either direction on our stature ladder

1969–1972

Navy Steady≈

National Program II → National Program III (left at Regional Program III)

Closest comparable run: Kevin Steele’s Baylor run (1999–2002)

Rick Forzano slid Navy from National Program II to National Program III in 4 seasons.

−16.2 pts over 4 seasons · bottom 1% of 3-5-season tenures (717 in sample)

12th-best Navy tenure of 18 by the numbers.

Followed William Elias (1965–1968) · succeeded by George Welsh (1973–1981).

10-33

Was he good?

Only one of the usual three angles is measurable for this era — raised the program.

Raised the program

-14.7 pts at Navy · #1278 of 1290 · bottom quarter