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Tony Elliott

2022-2025Virginia

One defining stop at Virginia.

Tony Elliott coached 4 seasons, won 32.4%, and posted an average SRS of -0.6. Best season: 2025 Virginia. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stop defined the run.

Career record
11-23
Career win rate
32.4%
Average SRS
-0.6
Peak SRS
9.8

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
57.1

Primary school anchor

Virginia

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 60.8.

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.

Tony Elliott
EliteStrongAverageLean
2022Actual season year • SRS range -6.0 to 9.82025

Active comparison point

Tony Elliott2025

Selected

2025 Virginia

Best seasonBiggest improvement

0-0 • SRS 9.8 • SP Overall 11.1

Win %

YoY SRS

+11.7

SP Off / Def

28.8 / 18.1

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

Virginia

2022-20254 seasons

Avg SRS -0.6 • Win % 32.4%

Longest tenure
Virginia • 4 seasons
Best tenure
Virginia • -0.6 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Virginia • 32.4%

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.

Tony Elliott sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Tony Elliott sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Tony Elliott

Mixed

Raw avg SP Overall
-3.5
Percentile
46th pct

Mixed

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.

Virginia

2022-202511-23

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

Avg SRS -0.6Win % 32.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

2.8 during vs 6.8 baseline

-4.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-0.6 during vs 3.8 baseline

-4.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-3.5 during vs 5.3 baseline

-8.8

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Virginia 2025

0-0SRS 9.8

Biggest Improvement

Virginia 2025

0-011.7 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Virginia 2025

0-0SP Off 28.8

Best Defensive Season

Virginia 2025

0-0SP Def 18.1

Setbacks

Worst Season

Virginia 2022

3-7SRS -6.0

Biggest Drop

Virginia 2023

3-91.6 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Virginia202500009.811.128.818.1+11.7
Virginia20241257041.7%-1.9-5.123.729.3+2.5+16.7%
Virginia20231239025.0%-4.4-10.821.031.7+1.6-5.0%
Virginia20221037030.0%-6.0-9.016.224.4

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