Look: First-Year Talent Index Shows Positive and Negative Signs For Cincinnati's Rebuild

The Bearcats fell short this season, but Scott Satterfield did a nice job building up Louisville's initial talent for Jeff Brohm.

CINCINNATI — It's been a brutal football season at Nippert Stadium as Scott Satterfield honestly falls short of expectations in year one given the talent level he inherited (betting win total closed at five and 5.5 wins).

Costly mistakes and unlucky breaks have taken a 5-6 win team by talent and left them scrapping for a fourth victory this weekend. Still, Satterfield did a nice job building up the talent level at Louisville before Jeff Brohm came in this season and punched an ACC title ticket.

According to CFB Data, Brohm inherited the 23rd-best year-one talent base of any Power Five head coach since 2015. Now, that could be looked at negatively given Satterfield went just 7-5 in his final year at Louisville.

Check out the full numbers.

Been working on a new metric. We'll call it the Third Base Index.

Ryan Day's TBI of 0.971 is closer to the maximum possible value of 1.0 than the next closest coach, Ed Orgeron at LSU (0.867).

Maybe I should've called this the Ryan Day Index (RDI). https://t.co/TyvoN3cgHs pic.twitter.com/c5cbQ1Tg3b

— Bill Radjewski | CollegeFootballData.com (@CFB_Data) November 21, 2023

Which P5 coaches inherited the best situation for success?

In honor of The Game this week, I seek to answer definitively, who was born on third base?

Ryan Day is the obvious answer. We also have two other candidates in contention. pic.twitter.com/T091vdn6nq

— Bill Radjewski | CollegeFootballData.com (@CFB_Data) November 20, 2023

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