Coach Profile
1975-1990 • Purdue, Texas, Wyoming
3 schools coached, anchored by Texas.
Fred Akers coached 16 seasons, won 58.9%, and posted an average SRS of 6.7. Best season: 1977 Texas. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 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
Texas
Defense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 93.8.
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
11-1 • SRS 26.1 • SP Overall 27.0
Win %
91.7%
YoY SRS
+31.2
SP Off / Def
42.1 / 17.1
Finish
#4
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.
Purdue
1987-1990 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -7.6 • Win % 28.4%
Texas
1977-1986 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 14.4 • Win % 73.1%
Wyoming
1975-1976 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -2.9 • Win % 43.5%
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.
Fred Akers sets the reference point in overall strength.
Fred Akers sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Fred Akers
Strong
Strong
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
1987-1990 • 12-31-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.0 during vs 4.2 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.6 during vs -2.1 baseline
-5.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-9.6 during vs -2.2 baseline
-7.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
1977-1986 • 86-31-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.6 during vs 8.2 baseline
+0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
14.4 during vs 20.9 baseline
-6.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
17.3 during vs 22.1 baseline
-4.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
60.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
-20.0%
1975-1976 • 10-13
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 3.2 baseline
+1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.9 during vs -9.3 baseline
+6.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.3 during vs -9.8 baseline
+3.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
Texas 1977
11-1 • SRS 26.1
Biggest Improvement
Texas 1977
11-1 • 31.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Texas 1977
11-1 • SP Off 42.1
Best Defensive Season
Texas 1978
9-3 • SP Def 7.8
Setbacks
Worst Season
Purdue 1988
4-7 • SRS -12.3
Biggest Drop
Texas 1984
7-4-1 • -11.3 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Purdue | 1990 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -7.4 | -9.4 | 24.2 | 32.4 | -1.6 | -9.1% |
| Purdue | 1989 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -5.8 | -5.2 | 22.5 | 27.7 | +6.5 | -9.1% |
| Purdue | 1988 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -12.3 | -15.7 | 15.9 | 30.9 | -7.5 | +4.5% |
| Purdue | 1987 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 31.8% | — | — | -4.8 | -8.1 | 23.2 | 30.5 | -6.6 | -13.6% |
| Texas | 1986 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 1.8 | 4.0 | 27.8 | 25.0 | -3.3 | -21.2% |
| Texas | 1985 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 5.1 | 8.8 | 30.4 | 23.2 | +0.3 | +4.2% |
| Texas | 1984 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 62.5% | #6 | — | 4.8 | 9.0 | 30.4 | 22.7 | -11.3 | -29.2% |
| Texas | 1983 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #3 | #5 | 16.1 | 21.4 | 30.1 | 9.3 | -0.8 | +16.7% |
| Texas | 1982 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #17 | #17 | 16.9 | 19.9 | 35.7 | 17.4 | -0.8 | -12.5% |
| Texas | 1981 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 87.5% | #9 | #2 | 17.7 | 21.9 | 31.2 | 10.3 | +6.8 | +29.2% |
| Texas | 1980 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #10 | — | 10.9 | 10.7 | 29.0 | 19.2 | -10.3 | -16.7% |
| Texas | 1979 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #4 | #12 | 21.2 | 24.0 | 27.6 | — | -2.1 | 0.0% |
| Texas | 1978 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 75.0% | #8 | #9 | 23.3 | 26.3 | 33.5 | 7.8 | -2.8 | -16.7% |
| Texas | 1977 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | — | #4 | 26.1 | 27.0 | 42.1 | 17.1 | +31.2 | +25.0% |
| Wyoming | 1976 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -5.1 | -7.6 | 22.9 | 29.9 | -4.5 | +48.5% |
| Wyoming | 1975 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -0.6 | -4.9 | 20.0 | 25.0 | — | — |
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