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- Win rate
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Wayne Howard
1974-1981 • Long Beach State, Utah
2 schools coached, anchored by Utah.
Wayne Howard coached 8 seasons, won 60.7%, and posted an average SRS of -1.6. Best season: 1978 Utah. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 53-34-2
- Career win rate
- 60.7%
- Average SRS
- -1.6
- Peak SRS
- 5.1
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
- 8
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 64.7
Primary school anchor
Utah
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 47.4.
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.
Wayne Howard
EliteStrongAverageLean
Wayne Howard: 1977 Utah
1974Actual season year • SRS range -9.5 to 5.11981
Active comparison point
Wayne Howard • 1978
1978 Utah
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-3 • SRS 5.1 • SP Overall 7.1
Win %
72.7%
YoY SRS
+14.6
SP Off / Def
28.7 / 22.8
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
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results10
| 1981 Regular Week 12 | Utah | BYU | #18 | L28-56 |
| 1981 Regular Week 2 | Utah | Arizona State | #20 | L10-52 |
| 1980 Regular Week 13 | Utah | BYU | #12 | L6-56 |
| 1980 Regular Week 3 | Utah | Nebraska | #6 | L9-55 |
| 1979 Regular Week 12 | Utah | BYU | #10 | L0-27 |
| 1979 Regular Week 3 | Utah | Washington | #12 | L7-41 |
| 1977 Regular Week 10 | Utah | BYU | #13 | L8-38 |
| 1977 Regular Week 9 | Utah | Arizona State | #19 | L19-47 |
| 1977 Regular Week 4 | Utah | Houston | #19 | L16-34 |
| 1977 Regular Week 3 | Utah | Oklahoma | #3 | L24-62 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Utah
1977-1981 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 0.4 • Win % 55.4%
Long Beach State
1974-1976 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -5.0 • Win % 69.7%
- Longest tenure
- Utah • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Utah • 0.4 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Long Beach State • 69.7%
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.
Wayne Howard sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeWayne Howard sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Wayne Howard
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -0.1
- Percentile
- 56th pct
Above average
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.
Utah
1977-1981 • 30-24-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.4Win % 55.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 3.6 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.4 during vs -8.4 baseline
+8.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
2.0 during vs -12.1 baseline
+14.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Long Beach State
1974-1976 • 23-10
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -5.0Win % 69.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Utah 1978
8-3 • SRS 5.1
Biggest Improvement
Utah 1978
8-3 • 14.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Utah 1980
5-5-1 • SP Off 34.6
Best Defensive Season
Long Beach State 1975
9-2 • SP Def 21.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
Utah 1977
3-8 • SRS -9.5
Biggest Drop
Long Beach State 1976
8-3 • -9.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Utah | 1981 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | — | — | 3.5 | 5.0 | 31.2 | 28.0 | +0.8 | +27.3% |
| Utah | 1980 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 2.7 | 7.5 | 34.6 | 29.0 | +2.4 | 0.0% |
| Utah | 1979 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 0.3 | 5.4 | 30.7 | 26.9 | -4.8 | -22.7% |
| Utah | 1978 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 5.1 | 7.1 | 28.7 | 22.8 | +14.6 | +45.5% |
| Utah | 1977 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -9.5 | -15.0 | 26.6 | 38.6 | -2.0 | -45.5% |
| Long Beach State | 1976 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | -7.5 | -8.0 | 16.5 | 24.1 | -9.3 | -9.1% |
| Long Beach State | 1975 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | — | 1.8 | 5.1 | 25.9 | 21.6 | +11.2 | +27.3% |
| Long Beach State | 1974 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -9.4 | -7.7 | 24.5 | 31.7 | — | — |
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