Rick Venturi: 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.

0-2 against his rivals. Winless in 3 tries against Bo Schembechler.

Rivalry record

0-2-1

0.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

1-2-1

25.0% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-2

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Illinois0-2-10%

The toughest matchup

vs. Bo Schembechler0-3

3 meetings, 1978–1980

’78 L’79 L’80 L

0% win rate across a real, 3-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

0-2 0.0%

Power Program

0-10 0.0%

National Program

0-8 0.0%

Regional Program

1-11 8.3%

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 (1978-1980) 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.