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Kalani Sitake

2016-2025BYU

One defining program at BYU.

Kalani Sitake coached 10 seasons, won 62.6%, and posted an average SRS of 5.5. Best season: 2020 BYU. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
72-43
Career win rate
62.6%
Average SRS
5.5
Peak SRS
19.6

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
10 years
Best finish
#11
Consistency
23.5

Primary school anchor

BYU

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 83.3.

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.

Kalani Sitake
EliteStrongAverageLean
2016Actual season year • SRS range -10.6 to 19.62025

Active comparison point

Kalani Sitake2020

Selected

2020 BYU

Best seasonBiggest improvement

11-1 • SRS 19.6 • SP Overall 19.2

Win %

91.7%

YoY SRS

+20.6

SP Off / Def

39.2 / 20.3

Finish

#11

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
Ranking timing

Top 25

10-13

Games
23
Win rate
43.5%

Top 10

2-4

Games
6
Win rate
33.3%

Top 5

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results23

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

BYU

2016-202510 seasons

Avg SRS 5.5 • Win % 62.6%

Longest tenure
BYU • 10 seasons
Best tenure
BYU • 5.5 SRS
Best tenure win rate
BYU • 62.6%

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.

Kalani Sitake sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Kalani Sitake sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Kalani Sitake

Strong

Raw avg SP Overall
6.3
Percentile
76th pct

Strong

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.

BYU

2016-202572-43

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

Avg SRS 5.5Win % 62.6%

Avg wins

Higher is better

7.2 during vs 8.6 baseline

-1.4

Avg SRS

Higher is better

5.5 during vs 7.8 baseline

-2.3

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

6.3 during vs 9.3 baseline

-3.1

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

30.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+30.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

BYU 2020

11-1SRS 19.6

Biggest Improvement

BYU 2020

11-120.6 SRS

Best Offensive Season

BYU 2020

11-1SP Off 39.2

Best Defensive Season

BYU 2025

0-0SP Def 18.8

Setbacks

Worst Season

BYU 2017

4-9SRS -10.6

Biggest Drop

BYU 2017

4-9-17.9 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

BYU2025000015.015.933.918.8+0.2
BYU202413112084.6%#1314.815.332.018.8+15.6+43.0%
BYU20231257041.7%-0.8-3.325.330.3-0.5-19.9%
BYU20221385061.5%#25-0.3-1.434.334.8-8.3-15.4%
BYU202113103076.9%#198.08.937.227.9-11.6-14.7%
BYU202012111091.7%#1119.619.239.220.3+20.6+37.8%
BYU20191376053.8%-1.01.328.626.2-4.20.0%
BYU20181376053.8%3.26.228.922.3+13.8+23.1%
BYU20171349030.8%-10.6-7.418.625.8-17.9-38.5%
BYU20161394069.2%7.38.029.623.1

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