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Coach Profile

John Anderson

1918-1981 • Brown, Rice

2 schools coached, anchored by Brown.

John Anderson coached 10 seasons, won 60.1%, and posted an average SRS of -11.8. Best season: 1976 Brown. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record: 52-34-3
Career win rate: 60.1%
Average SRS: -11.8
Peak SRS: -0.5

Career Dossier

One glance at the full arc.

The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.

Seasons coached: 10
Career span: 64 years
Best finish: —
Consistency: 21.0

Primary school anchor

Brown

Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 33.5.

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Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare John Anderson

Overall record: 52-34-3
Brown record: 51-29-2
Full-season record: 52-34-3
Vs AP Top 25: 0-0
Vs AP Top 10: 0-0
Vs AP Top 5: 0-0
Postseason / bowl record: 0-0
CFP record: 0-0
National titles: 0

Record definition and data status

Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.

Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.

Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 21, 1981. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.

Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.

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John Anderson: 1973 Brown

1918Actual season year • SRS range -26.9 to -0.51981

Active comparison point

John Anderson • 1976

Selected

1976 Brown

Best season

8-1 • SRS -0.5 • SP Overall 8.5

Win %

88.9%

YoY SRS

+5.6

SP Off / Def

23.8 / 16.0

Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Ranked opponent record

Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.

Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.

Poll source

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Brown

1973-1981 • 9 seasons

Avg SRS -11.8 • Win % 63.4%

Rice

1918-1918 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS — • Win % 21.4%

Longest tenure: Brown • 9 seasons
Best tenure: Brown • -11.8 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Brown • 63.4%

Style and Strength Profile

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.

Overall Strength

Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.

John Anderson sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

John Anderson sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

John Anderson

Above average

Raw avg SP Overall: 1.5
Percentile: 63th pct

Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.

Impact by school

See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.

Brown

1973-1981 • 51-29-2

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS -11.8Win % 63.4%

No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Rice

1918-1918 • 1-5-1

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (4 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS —Win % 21.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

1.0 during vs 5.3 baseline

-4.3

Avg SRS

Higher is better

— during vs -1.4 baseline

—

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

— during vs — baseline

—

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Brown 1976

8-1 • SRS -0.5

Biggest Improvement

Brown 1975

6-2-1 • 19.0 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Brown 1975

6-2-1 • SP Off 32.0

Best Defensive Season

Brown 1977

7-2 • SP Def 15.9

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Brown 1981

3-7 • SRS -26.9

Biggest Drop

Brown 1981

3-7 • -14.5 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.


Brown	1981	10	3	7	0	30.0%	—	—	-26.9	-18.5	17.0	34.4	-14.5	-30.0%	Season summary
Brown	1980	10	6	4	0	60.0%	—	—	-12.4	0.7	29.0	28.7	+3.3	-6.7%	Season summary
Brown	1979	9	6	3	0	66.7%	—	—	-15.7	5.7	23.5	18.7	-9.5	0.0%	Season summary
Brown	1978	9	6	3	0	66.7%	—	—	-6.2	6.6	28.1	22.7	-5.1	-11.1%	Season summary
Brown	1977	9	7	2	0	77.8%	—	—	-1.1	1.8	17.2	15.9	-0.6	-11.1%	Season summary
Brown	1976	9	8	1	0	88.9%	—	—	-0.5	8.5	23.8	16.0	+5.6	+16.7%	Season summary
Brown	1975	9	6	2	1	72.2%	—	—	-6.1	9.8	32.0	23.7	+19.0	+16.7%	Season summary
Brown	1974	9	5	4	0	55.6%	—	—	-25.1	-7.4	13.3	20.0	-12.8	-0.7%	Season summary
Brown	1973	8	4	3	1	56.3%	—	—	-12.3	6.0	29.0	24.5	—	+34.8%	Season summary
Rice	1918	7	1	5	1	21.4%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Season summary