San Diego State
1969-1972 • 36-8
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 8.7Win % 81.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
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Don Coryell
1969-1972 • San Diego State
One defining stop at San Diego State.
Don Coryell coached 4 seasons, won 81.8%, and posted an average SRS of 8.7. Best season: 1969 San Diego State. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stop defined the run.
- Career record
- 36-8
- Career win rate
- 81.8%
- Average SRS
- 8.7
- Peak SRS
- 19.8
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 37.1
Primary school anchor
San Diego State
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 83.7.
Career Arc
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.
Don Coryell
EliteStrongAverageLean
1969Actual season year • SRS range -0.8 to 19.81972
Active comparison point
Don Coryell • 1969
1969 San Diego State
Best season11-0 • SRS 19.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
100.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Tenure map
Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger tenure
San Diego State
1969-1972 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 8.7 • Win % 81.8%
- Longest tenure
- San Diego State • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- San Diego State • 8.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- San Diego State • 81.8%
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.
Don Coryell sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeDon Coryell sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Don Coryell
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 9.1
- Percentile
- 83th pct
Strong
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
San Diego State 1969
11-0 • SRS 19.8
Biggest Improvement
San Diego State 1972
10-1 • 6.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
San Diego State 1970
9-2 • SP Off 32.9
Best Defensive Season
San Diego State 1972
10-1 • SP Def 15.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
San Diego State 1971
6-5 • SRS -0.8
Biggest Drop
San Diego State 1971
6-5 • -11.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| San Diego State | 1972 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | — | 5.4 | 13.1 | 28.7 | 15.6 | +6.2 | +36.4% |
| San Diego State | 1971 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -0.8 | 1.0 | 26.8 | 26.1 | -11.0 | -27.3% |
| San Diego State | 1970 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | — | 10.2 | 13.2 | 32.9 | 20.5 | -9.6 | -18.2% |
| San Diego State | 1969 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | — | — | 19.8 | — | — | — | — | — |
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