ESPN College Football Coach Detail

Get the ESPN core-v2 detail record for a single college football coach – name, the team coached in the requested season, and a count of career-record and coach-season entries ESPN has on file.

Usage

espn_cfb_coach(coach_id = NULL, year = NULL, team_detail = TRUE)

Arguments

coach_id

(Integer required): ESPN coach id.

year

(Integer required): Season, 4 digit format (YYYY). Used to resolve the team the coach led that season.

team_detail

(Logical): when TRUE (default), the ESPN team catalog (espn_cfb_teams()) is fetched once and friendly team fields are joined in next to the team_id column. The sibling columns team_name, team_abbreviation, team_location, team_display_name, team_short_display_name, team_nickname, team_color, team_alternate_color, team_logo_href, team_logo_dark_href are inserted immediately after team_id. A catalog failure degrades to NA rather than erroring the wrapper. Set FALSE to skip the catalog fetch and the join, reproducing the prior output exactly.

Value

A single-row data frame:

col_name	types	description
coach_id	character	ESPN coach id.
season	integer	Season (4-digit year) queried.
first_name	character	Coach first name.
last_name	character	Coach last name.
uid	character	ESPN coach UID string.
team_id	character	ESPN id of the team coached that season (parsed from team_ref).
team_name	character	Team nickname; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_abbreviation	character	Team abbreviation; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_location	character	Team location / school name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_display_name	character	Full team display name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_short_display_name	character	Short team display name; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_nickname	character	Team nickname label; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_color	character	Primary team color; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_alternate_color	character	Alternate team color; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_logo_href	character	Default team logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only.
team_logo_dark_href	character	Dark-variant team logo URL; team_detail = TRUE only.
n_career_records	integer	Number of career-record entries ESPN has on file.
n_coach_seasons	integer	Number of coach-season entries ESPN has on file.
team_ref	character	$ref URL to the per-season team resource.
person_ref	character	$ref URL to the league-wide coach (person) resource.

Details

Wraps two ESPN core-v2 endpoints and merges them: the season-scoped coach resource seasons/{year}/coaches/{coach_id} (supplies the team coached that season) and the league-wide coach resource coaches/{coach_id} (supplies the career-record and coach-season counts). Returns a single-row tibble. Enumerate coach_ids with espn_cfb_coaches().

See also

Other ESPN CFB Functions: espn_cfb_award(), espn_cfb_awards(), espn_cfb_clear_cache(), espn_cfb_coach_record(), espn_cfb_coaches(), espn_cfb_franchise(), espn_cfb_franchises(), espn_cfb_futures(), espn_cfb_game_broadcasts(), espn_cfb_game_drive_plays(), espn_cfb_game_drives(), espn_cfb_game_leaders(), espn_cfb_game_odds(), espn_cfb_game_pbp(), espn_cfb_game_play(), espn_cfb_game_player_box(), espn_cfb_game_player_statistics(), espn_cfb_game_powerindex(), espn_cfb_game_predictor(), espn_cfb_game_probabilities(), espn_cfb_game_situation(), espn_cfb_game_status(), espn_cfb_game_team_leaders(), espn_cfb_game_team_linescores(), espn_cfb_game_team_records(), espn_cfb_game_team_roster(), espn_cfb_game_team_statistics(), espn_cfb_game_teams(), espn_cfb_groups(), espn_cfb_pbp_v2(), espn_cfb_player(), espn_cfb_player_career_stats(), espn_cfb_player_eventlog(), espn_cfb_player_gamelog(), espn_cfb_player_overview(), espn_cfb_player_seasons(), espn_cfb_player_splits(), espn_cfb_player_stats_v3(), espn_cfb_players(), espn_cfb_position(), espn_cfb_positions(), espn_cfb_powerindex(), espn_cfb_qbr(), espn_cfb_rankings(), espn_cfb_recruits(), espn_cfb_season_info(), espn_cfb_season_types(), espn_cfb_season_weeks(), espn_cfb_seasons(), espn_cfb_standings(), espn_cfb_team(), espn_cfb_team_ats(), espn_cfb_team_awards(), espn_cfb_team_coaches(), espn_cfb_team_events(), espn_cfb_team_leaders(), espn_cfb_team_powerindex(), espn_cfb_team_ranks(), espn_cfb_team_record(), espn_cfb_team_roster(), espn_cfb_team_schedule(), espn_cfb_teams(), espn_cfb_unnest_plays(), espn_cfb_venue(), espn_cfb_venues(), espn_cfb_week_rankings()

Examples

# \donttest{
  try(espn_cfb_coach(coach_id = 5120149, year = 2024))
#> ── Coach detail from ESPN ──────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:55:36 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1 × 20
#>   coach_id season first_name last_name uid   team_id team_name team_abbreviation
#>   <chr>     <int> <chr>      <chr>     <chr> <chr>   <chr>     <chr>            
#> 1 5120149    2024 Alex       Golesh    s:20… 58      Bulls     USF              
#> # ℹ 12 more variables: team_location <chr>, team_display_name <chr>,
#> #   team_short_display_name <chr>, team_nickname <chr>, team_color <chr>,
#> #   team_alternate_color <chr>, team_logo_href <chr>,
#> #   team_logo_dark_href <chr>, n_career_records <int>, n_coach_seasons <int>,
#> #   team_ref <chr>, person_ref <chr>
  try(espn_cfb_coach(coach_id = 5120149, year = 2024, team_detail = FALSE))
#> ── Coach detail from ESPN ──────────────────────────────────── cfbfastR 2.3.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-09 07:55:36 UTC
#> # A tibble: 1 × 10
#>   coach_id season first_name last_name uid              team_id n_career_records
#>   <chr>     <int> <chr>      <chr>     <chr>            <chr>              <int>
#> 1 5120149    2024 Alex       Golesh    s:20~l:23~co:51… 58                     2
#> # ℹ 3 more variables: n_coach_seasons <int>, team_ref <chr>, person_ref <chr>
# }