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Kim Helton
1993-1999 • Houston
One defining program at Houston.
Kim Helton coached 7 seasons, won 31.4%, and posted an average SRS of -8.8. Best season: 1996 Houston. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 24-53-1
- Career win rate
- 31.4%
- Average SRS
- -8.8
- Peak SRS
- 4.1
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
- 7
- Career span
- 7 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 19.5
Primary school anchor
Houston
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 44.6.
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.
Kim Helton
EliteStrongAverageLean
1993Actual season year • SRS range -23.6 to 4.11999
Active comparison point
Kim Helton • 1996
1996 Houston
Best seasonBiggest improvement7-5 • SRS 4.1 • SP Overall 7.5
Win %
58.3%
YoY SRS
+14.7
SP Off / Def
38.5 / 32.8
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.
Top 10
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results20
| 1999 Regular Week 10 | Houston | East Carolina | #17 | L3-19 |
| 1999 Regular Week 3 | Houston | Alabama | #21 | L10-37 |
| 1998 Regular Week 13 | Houston | Tulane | #11 | L20-48 |
| 1998 Regular Week 5 | Houston | Tennessee | #3 | L7-42 |
| 1998 Regular Week 4 | Houston | UCLA | #3 | L24-42 |
| 1997 Regular Week 7 | Houston | UCLA | #22 | L10-66 |
| 1997 Regular Week 2 | Houston | Alabama | #16 | L17-42 |
| 1996 Regular Week 12 | Houston | Southern Miss | #20 | W56-49 |
| 1996 Regular Week 10 | Houston | North Carolina | #9 | L14-42 |
| 1996 Regular Week 5 | Houston | USC | #15 | L9-26 |
| 1996 Regular Week 3 | Houston | LSU | #17 | L34-35 |
| 1996 Postseason Week 1 | Houston | Syracuse | #21 | L17-30 |
| 1995 Regular Week 12 | Houston | Texas | #11 | L20-52 |
| 1995 Regular Week 10 | Houston | Texas A&M | #19 | L7-31 |
| 1995 Regular Week 4 | Houston | USC | #6 | L10-45 |
| 1995 Regular Week 2 | Houston | Florida | #5 | L21-45 |
| 1994 Regular Week 7 | Houston | Texas A&M | #10 | L7-38 |
| 1994 Regular Week 5 | Houston | Ohio State | #20 | L0-52 |
| 1993 Regular Week 7 | Houston | Texas A&M | #14 | L10-34 |
| 1993 Regular Week 5 | Houston | Michigan | #8 | L21-42 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Houston
1993-1999 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS -8.8 • Win % 31.4%
- Longest tenure
- Houston • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- Houston • -8.8 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Houston • 31.4%
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.
Kim Helton sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeKim Helton sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Kim Helton
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -9.6
- Percentile
- 28th pct
Lower end
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.
Houston
1993-1999 • 24-53-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -8.8Win % 31.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.4 during vs 7.2 baseline
-3.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-8.8 during vs 11.8 baseline
-20.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-9.6 during vs 13.7 baseline
-23.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
-60.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Houston 1996
7-5 • SRS 4.1
Biggest Improvement
Houston 1996
7-5 • 14.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Houston 1996
7-5 • SP Off 38.5
Best Defensive Season
Houston 1999
7-4 • SP Def 25.2
Setbacks
Worst Season
Houston 1994
1-10 • SRS -23.6
Biggest Drop
Houston 1997
3-8 • -19.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Houston | 1999 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 2.2 | 1.8 | 26.3 | 25.2 | +7.4 | +36.4% |
| Houston | 1998 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -5.2 | -4.9 | 29.6 | 34.0 | +10.2 | 0.0% |
| Houston | 1997 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -15.4 | -17.2 | 27.4 | 40.8 | -19.5 | -31.1% |
| Houston | 1996 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 4.1 | 7.5 | 38.5 | 32.8 | +14.7 | +40.2% |
| Houston | 1995 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -10.6 | -8.6 | 27.0 | 34.1 | +13.0 | +9.1% |
| Houston | 1994 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -23.6 | -27.0 | 15.7 | 39.5 | -10.2 | -4.5% |
| Houston | 1993 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 13.6% | — | — | -13.4 | -18.5 | 22.9 | 38.7 | — | — |
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