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Index · this season
52
▼ Below its 5-year level -7
Career59since 1936
Peak792020
Last 559seasons
#117 nationally · 2-4 (1-1 conf)
Résumé #121
Schedule so far #109
Margin ±5 pts (tightens with games)
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Coastal Carolina Chanticleers

Sun Belt · Conway, SC · Brooks Stadium (SC) · Head coach Ryan Beard
Rival
Building rivalry
4-9 all time (13 meetings since 2006)
Georgia Southern leads
Last: lost 31-24 (2026) · Georgia Southern has won 4 straight
Wants it back
program traits are earned from history
No recognized national titles since 1936. Counted: AP poll champion, a coaches-poll champion, or the BCS / playoff title-game winner; a split year counts for both.0national titles
Heisman Trophy winners0Heisman
Seasons finishing in the AP top 10 since 19360AP top-10
Consensus All-Americans since 19361All-Americans
NFL draft picks since 19673NFL picks
Winning percentage since 193652.8%win pct
History since 1936 · football since 2017. Every season →
Chemistry
Chem 49: new staff, still building49
Chem 49: warning zone
49Foundation
Chem 48: warning zone
48Gel
gel counts 45% so far
at its usual level
early · #107 of 138
HC year1
Ret. starters23%
QB yrs w/ OC2
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Team chemistryearly · #107 of 138 FBS teams
Chem 49: warning zoneFoundation49+Chem 48: warning zoneGel48=Chem 49: warning zoneChem49Gel counts 45% so far (it grows as games are played, up to half)
Foundationwhat the program has built · moves over seasons
Foundation49Staff stability — Coach and coordinator tenure, staff who came along, assistant turnoverStaff stability50Roster continuity — Returning starters and the lineup's experienceRoster continuity34Unit cohesion — QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played togetherUnit cohesion48Administration — Athletic director continuity and coach-AD alignmentAdministration56Investment — Commitment to football: its share of the department's spending and whether that is growing, plus spending and recruitingInvestment59Fan base — How passionate and loyal the fan base is: how often it sells out, and whether it sells out games that don't matterFan base58
ContinuityClimate
Continuity · who has played and coached togetherlive

Who has played and coached together, and for how long, ranked against every FBS team at the same point of the season.

▸Staff stability
Coach and coordinator tenure, staff who came along, assistant turnover
50
Staff cohesion63
HC year 1 · OC year 1 · DC year 1
Assistant turnover37
81% of on-field staff new this season (FBS average about 45%)
▸Roster continuity
Returning starters and the lineup's experience
34
Returning core47
23% of last season's starters · FBS median 32%
Experience20
7 career starts per starter · FBS median 12
▸Unit cohesion
QB & coordinator, QB & receivers, offensive line, defense: how long each unit has played together
48
QB & coordinator80
2 seasons together · same as 20% of FBS teams
QB & receivers41
2.2 games started together on average · FBS median 3.9
Line cohesion43
3.5 games per linemen pair · FBS median 5.2
Defensive cohesion16
2.7 games per defensive pair · FBS median 4.5
Climate · around the programlive

The administration, money and fans around the team: athletic director continuity, willingness to invest, and crowds.

▸Administration
Athletic director continuity and coach-AD alignment
56
AD continuity56
Chance Miller · year 3 (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
▸Investment
Commitment to football: its share of the department's spending and whether that is growing, plus spending and recruiting
59
Football's share79
36% of department spending goes to football
Investment trend44
+11% over three years
Football investment53
$17.1M on football (2024-25 federal report)
Recruiting spend52
$0.78M men's recruiting
Department resources48
$47M athletic department revenue
▸Fan base
How passionate and loyal the fan base is: how often it sells out, and whether it sells out games that don't matter
58
Sellouts60
sellout crowds (95%+ of capacity) at 4 of 41 home games (last 8 seasons)
Sells out anyway57
sellout crowds at 3 of 39 games that didn't matter: cupcakes, or a team expected to lose or having a losing season

Finances: U.S. Department of Education athletics disclosures, as reported by each school. Athletic directors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Attendance: reported crowds vs stadium capacity.

Gelhow it is working right now · moves week to week
Gel48Playing above its parts — Results vs what its preseason projection expected, game by gamePlaying above its parts59Settled & sharp — A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normalSettled & sharp39Alignment — Coaches and players telling the same story; the staff on one pageAlignmentsoonResilience — Confidence, and how the team sounds after adversityResiliencesoonFan & media mood — Expectations met or missed this season (preseason rank vs now), stronger for fan bases that react hard; fan and media sentiment joins laterFan & media mood45Coach security — The hard-facts hot seat, inverted: results vs expectation, recent seasons vs the program's norm, stakes, a new ADCoach security66
InternalOn-field fitExternal
Internal · how the program talkscoming

How the team talks in press conferences and interviews, each program against its own normal, so a naturally terse coach isn't read as upset. Being built program by program, Big Ten first.

▸Alignment
Coaches and players telling the same story; the staff on one page
soon
Coming: measured from press conferences and interviews.
▸Resilience
Confidence, and how the team sounds after adversity
soon
Coming: measured from press conferences and interviews.

Readings are team-level; we don't publish psychological readings of individual players.

On-field fit · how it is playing togetherlive

How the team is playing together this season: beating or missing its preseason expectation, a settled lineup, clean execution.

▸Playing above its parts
Results vs what its preseason projection expected, game by game
59
This season59
-0.4 points a game vs its preseason projection (5 games)
▸Settled & sharp
A settled starting lineup and clean execution (penalties, turnovers) vs its own normal
39
This season39
75% of starters kept game to game
External · pressure from outsidelive

Pressure from outside the building: the hard-facts hot seat now; this season's fan and media mood as it is measured.

▸Fan & media mood
Expectations met or missed this season (preseason rank vs now), stronger for fan bases that react hard; fan and media sentiment joins later
45
This season45
outside the AP poll: projected #111 preseason -> #117 in our Index now · lost to rival Georgia Southern 31-24 (-8) · rival week vs App State (+2) · results 2-4 (-3, recent games count more)
▸Coach security
The hard-facts hot seat, inverted: results vs expectation, recent seasons vs the program's norm, stakes, a new AD
66
This season66
Ryan Beard, year 1 · 33% wins so far · -0.4 pts a game vs preseason expectation

Dashed gold ring = typical (62). 20-50 is the warning zone; under 10 is a collapse. Spokes with no data yet are dashed and left out until they fill in. Chem blends the two halves, then places the blend among this season's teams.

Trend · Foundationeach program year runs Feb 1 to the title game
'1722'1852'1958'2073'2178'2262'2338'2448'2541'262017 wk 1 vs Massachusetts: 31 · W2017 wk 3 vs UAB: 15 · L2017 wk 4 vs Western Illinois: 18 · L2017 wk 5 vs UL Monroe: 29 · L2017 wk 6 vs Georgia State: 17 · L2017 wk 7 vs Arkansas State: 32 · L2017 wk 8 vs App State: 33 · L2017 wk 9 vs Texas State: 33 · L2017 wk 10 vs Arkansas: 29 · L2017 wk 11 vs Troy: 31 · L2017 wk 12 vs Idaho: 20 · W2017 wk 14 vs Georgia Southern: 22 · W2018 wk 2 vs UAB: 53 · W2018 wk 3 vs Campbell: 55 · W2018 wk 4 vs Louisiana: 53 · W2018 wk 5 vs Troy: 54 · L2018 wk 7 vs UL Monroe: 47 · L2018 wk 8 vs Massachusetts: 47 · W2018 wk 9 vs Georgia State: 56 · W2018 wk 10 vs App State: 49 · L2018 wk 11 vs Arkansas State: 48 · L2018 wk 12 vs Georgia Southern: 54 · L2018 wk 13 vs South Alabama: 52 · L2019 wk 2 vs Kansas: 58 · W2019 wk 3 vs Norfolk State: 59 · W2019 wk 4 vs Massachusetts: 56 · W2019 wk 5 vs App State: 60 · L2019 wk 7 vs Georgia State: 58 · L2019 wk 8 vs Georgia Southern: 60 · L2019 wk 10 vs Troy: 57 · W2019 wk 11 vs Louisiana: 59 · L2019 wk 12 vs Arkansas State: 55 · L2019 wk 13 vs UL Monroe: 56 · L2019 wk 14 vs Texas State: 58 · W2020 wk 3 vs Campbell: 72 · W2020 wk 5 vs Arkansas State: 73 · W2020 wk 7 vs Louisiana: 74 · W2020 wk 8 vs Georgia Southern: 74 · W2020 wk 9 vs Georgia State: 76 · W2020 wk 10 vs South Alabama: 77 · W2020 wk 12 vs App State: 77 · W2020 wk 13 vs Texas State: 75 · W2020 wk 14 vs BYU: 76 · W2020 wk 15 vs Troy: 75 · W2020 wk 1 vs Liberty: 73 · L2021 wk 2 vs Kansas: 77 · W2021 wk 3 vs Buffalo: 79 · W2021 wk 4 vs Massachusetts: 80 · W2021 wk 5 vs UL Monroe: 79 · W2021 wk 6 vs Arkansas State: 79 · W2021 wk 8 vs App State: 79 · L2021 wk 9 vs Troy: 80 · W2021 wk 10 vs Georgia Southern: 79 · W2021 wk 11 vs Georgia State: 74 · L2021 wk 12 vs Texas State: 77 · W2021 wk 13 vs South Alabama: 81 · W2021 wk 1 vs Northern Illinois: 78 · W2022 wk 2 vs Gardner-Webb: 58 · W2022 wk 3 vs Buffalo: 61 · W2022 wk 4 vs Georgia State: 62 · W2022 wk 5 vs Georgia Southern: 59 · W2022 wk 6 vs UL Monroe: 63 · W2022 wk 7 vs Old Dominion: 63 · L2022 wk 9 vs Marshall: 64 · W2022 wk 10 vs App State: 62 · W2022 wk 11 vs Southern Miss: 63 · W2022 wk 13 vs James Madison: 56 · L2022 wk 14 vs Troy: 57 · L2022 wk 1 vs East Carolina: 62 · L2023 wk 2 vs Jacksonville State: 43 · W2023 wk 3 vs Duquesne: 44 · W2023 wk 4 vs Georgia State: 43 · L2023 wk 5 vs Georgia Southern: 44 · L2023 wk 7 vs App State: 44 · W2023 wk 8 vs Arkansas State: 45 · W2023 wk 9 vs Marshall: 44 · W2023 wk 10 vs Old Dominion: 40 · W2023 wk 11 vs Texas State: 29 · W2023 wk 12 vs Army: 29 · L2023 wk 13 vs James Madison: 38 · L2023 wk 1 vs San José State: 38 · W2024 wk 2 vs William & Mary: 57 · W2024 wk 3 vs Temple: 57 · W2024 wk 4 vs Virginia: 57 · L2024 wk 6 vs Old Dominion: 57 · W2024 wk 7 vs James Madison: 58 · L2024 wk 8 vs Louisiana: 58 · L2024 wk 10 vs Troy: 56 · L2024 wk 11 vs App State: 54 · W2024 wk 12 vs Marshall: 56 · L2024 wk 13 vs Georgia Southern: 58 · L2024 wk 14 vs Georgia State: 51 · W2024 wk 1 vs UTSA: 48 · L2025 wk 2 vs Charleston Southern: 51 · W2025 wk 3 vs East Carolina: 51 · L2025 wk 4 vs South Alabama: 41 · W2025 wk 6 vs Old Dominion: 49 · L2025 wk 7 vs UL Monroe: 47 · W2025 wk 8 vs App State: 48 · W2025 wk 10 vs Marshall: 38 · W2025 wk 11 vs Georgia State: 41 · W2025 wk 12 vs Georgia Southern: 49 · L2025 wk 13 vs South Carolina: 50 · L2025 wk 14 vs James Madison: 47 · L2025 wk 1 vs Louisiana Tech: 41 · L2026 wk 2 vs Fordham: 48 · W2026 wk 3 vs Delaware: 52 · L2026 wk 4 vs Liberty: 51 · L2026 wk 5 vs Georgia Southern: 53 · L2026 wk 6 vs Marshall: 48 · W2026 wk 7 vs App State: 49 · next gametypical 62

Every game since 2016, one continuous line; thin rules separate seasons and the chip is where each season finished. Navy dot = win, red = loss. Big drops usually mean a new staff, a new quarterback or a rebuilt line.

Trend · Gelthis season, after each game
typical 62wk 1 · on-field 48 · fan mood 69561wk 2 vs Fordham · W · on-field 66 · fan mood 75692wk 3 vs Delaware · L · on-field 63 · fan mood 71663wk 4 vs Liberty · L · on-field 45 · fan mood 51474wk 5 vs Georgia Southern · L · on-field 33 · fan mood 39355wk 6 vs Marshall · W · on-field 43 · fan mood 51466

How the team is working right now, rebuilt after each game from only the games so far: on-field fit (results vs preseason expectation, lineup settling, execution) and that week's fan & media mood. Coach security is part of today's Gel number but isn't rebuilt week by week yet. Navy frame = win, red = loss.

Continuity facts
Head coach
Year 1
new this season
Offensive coordinator
Year 1
new this season
Defensive coordinator
Year 1
new this season
HC & OC together
1 seasons
working together
QB with his OC
2 seasons
same play-caller
QB & receivers
2.3 games
started together, average
Offensive line pairs
3.5 games
started together, average
Returning starters
23%
from last season
Starter experience
7 starts
career average
Internal facts
Pressers read
soon
this season, coaches and players
Coach tone
soon
vs his own normal
"We" vs "I"
soon
share of team language
Owning mistakes
soon
vs pointing outward
Same story
soon
coaches and players agree
After losses
soon
how fast tone recovers
Leaders named
soon
players teammates point to
Newcomers
soon
transfers talked about as part of it
Openness
soon
forthcoming vs guarded
Measured from press conferences and interviews, program by program.
Climate facts
Athletic director
Chance Miller
year 3
Football spending
$17.1M
2024-25 federal report
Spending trend
+11%
over three years
Department revenue
$47M
all sports
Recruiting spend
$0.78M
men's teams
Home crowds
—
of capacity
Staff turnover
81%
on-field staff new this season
Fan mood
soon
fans and local media
Coach & AD
soon
on the same page
Finances: U.S. Department of Education athletics disclosures. Athletic directors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Offense · games started togetherlatest lineup · 11 starters
Bailey
Knicely
Washington
Lawrence
Gardner
Courtney
Richardson
Loaiza
Jones
McDonald
Poumele
QBDeuce Bailey62214262663
RBDominic Knicely22212122222
WRRobby Washington22612322242
WRGoldie Lawrence11111111111
WRTristian Gardner42214242442
TEZach Courtney213121121421
OLDaughtry Richardson62214262663
OLCristian Loaiza22212122222
OLDaniel Jones62214462863
OLKain McDonald62414262693
OLApisa Poumele32212132333

Each square: games the two players have started together at this school (darker = more). Gray diagonal: the player's own starts here.

Defense · games started togetherlatest lineup · 11 starters
Toney
Diawara
Barnes
Booker
Pulliam
McDowell
Wayne
Lee
Powell
Roman
Rose
DLMitchell Toney41124142424
DLIbrahim Diawara15113233323
DLDezmond Barnes11111111111
DLXzavier Booker21122121222
LBMarcellius Pulliam43126254636
LBSe'Von McDowell121121192222
DBJa'Marion Wayne431259173525
DBJalen Lee23114234424
DBJesse Powell II43126254636
DBTravis Roman22123222333
DBBrandon Rose43126254636

Each square: games the two players have started together at this school (darker = more). Gray diagonal: the player's own starts here.

Chemistry is Scorebook's own rating of how well a program fits together, on the same all-time 0-99 scale as our other ratings (compared with every FBS team since 2016; 62 is typical, 20-50 signals something is wrong, and single digits are reserved for true collapses; each season is compared with its own era). This early version blends continuity (who has played and coached together, and for how long; it counts most) with the climate around the program; how the program talks joins as it is measured. Within continuity, quarterback-centered pairings count most because they held up when we tested them against results. How our ratings work →