Coach Profile
1904-1924 • Baylor, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Washington & Jefferson, West Virginia
5 schools coached, anchored by South Carolina.
Sol Metzger coached 11 seasons, won 65.2%, and posted an average SRS of 0.8. Best season: 1917 Washington & Jefferson. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 5 stops shaped the career arc.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
South Carolina
Balanced profile with 5 program stops and a peak score of 92.0.
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stop began.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Active comparison point
7-3 • SRS 24.7 • SP Overall —
Win %
70.0%
YoY SRS
+11.1
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
South Carolina
1920-1924 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -10.2 • Win % 58.7%
Washington & Jefferson
1916-1917 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 19.1 • Win % 75.0%
West Virginia
1914-1915 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS 7.6 • Win % 65.6%
Pennsylvania
1908-1908 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 23.2 • Win % 95.8%
Baylor
1904-1904 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -16.9 • Win % 31.3%
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Sol Metzger
Insufficient sample
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
1920-1924 • 26-18-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.2 during vs 2.6 baseline
+2.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-10.2 during vs -18.8 baseline
+8.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
1916-1917 • 15-5
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.
1914-1915 • 10-5-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.
1908-1908 • 11-0-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.
1904-1904 • 2-5-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.
High Points
Best Season
Washington & Jefferson 1917
7-3 • SRS 24.7
Biggest Improvement
Pennsylvania 1908
11-0-1 • 40.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Baylor 1904
2-5-1 • SRS -16.9
Biggest Drop
South Carolina 1920
5-4 • -39.8 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| South Carolina | 1924 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | -6.7 | — | — | — | +8.5 | +30.0% |
| South Carolina | 1923 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -15.2 | — | — | — | -7.7 | -15.6% |
| South Carolina | 1922 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -7.5 | — | — | — | -1.2 | -19.4% |
| South Carolina | 1921 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | — | — | -6.3 | — | — | — | +8.8 | +19.4% |
| South Carolina | 1920 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -15.1 | — | — | — | -39.8 | -14.4% |
| Washington & Jefferson | 1917 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 24.7 | — | — | — | +11.1 | -10.0% |
| Washington & Jefferson | 1916 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 13.6 | — | — | — | -5.8 | +1.4% |
| West Virginia | 1915 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 78.6% | — | — | 19.4 | — | — | — | +23.6 | +23.0% |
| West Virginia | 1914 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -4.2 | — | — | — | -27.4 | -40.3% |
| Pennsylvania | 1908 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 95.8% | — | — | 23.2 | — | — | — | +40.1 | +64.6% |
| Baylor | 1904 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 31.3% | — | — | -16.9 | — | — | — | — | — |
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