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Frank Murray

1927-1949Marquette, Virginia

2 schools coached, anchored by Marquette.

Frank Murray coached 23 seasons, won 57.1%, and posted an average SRS of -1.4. Best season: 1936 Marquette. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 2 stops shaped the career arc.

Career record
111-82-10
Career win rate
57.1%
Average SRS
-1.4
Peak SRS
18.4

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
23
Career span
23 years
Best finish
#20
Consistency
22.1

Primary school anchor

Marquette

Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 81.2.

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.

Frank Murray
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Frank Murray: 1937 VirginiaFrank Murray: 1946 Marquette
1927Actual season year • SRS range -17.4 to 18.41949

Active comparison point

Frank Murray1936

Selected

1936 Marquette

Best season

7-2 • SRS 18.4 • SP Overall

Win %

77.8%

YoY SRS

+1.2

SP Off / Def

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Finish

#20

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

Marquette

1927-194914 seasons

Avg SRS 1.3 • Win % 58.9%

Virginia

1937-19459 seasons

Avg SRS -5.5 • Win % 54.4%

Longest tenure
Marquette • 14 seasons
Best tenure
Marquette • 1.3 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Marquette • 58.9%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Frank Murray

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
Percentile

Insufficient sample

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.

Marquette

1927-194970-48-5

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 1.3Win % 58.9%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Virginia

1937-194541-34-5

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

Avg SRS -5.5Win % 54.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.6 during vs 2.6 baseline

+2.0

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-5.5 during vs -14.3 baseline

+8.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Marquette 1936

7-2SRS 18.4

Biggest Improvement

Marquette 1935

7-114.5 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Worst Season

Virginia 1937

2-7SRS -17.4

Biggest Drop

Virginia 1937

2-7-35.8 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Marquette1949945044.4%-7.1+2.9+24.4%
Marquette19481028020.0%-10.0-6.7-24.4%
Marquette1947945044.4%-3.3-1.00.0%
Marquette1946945044.4%-2.3-5.3-33.3%
Virginia1945972077.8%3.0+5.40.0%
Virginia1944961277.8%-2.4+9.8+34.0%
Virginia1943834143.8%-12.2+1.7+16.0%
Virginia1942926127.8%-13.9-21.8-61.1%
Virginia1941981088.9%7.9+13.8+44.4%
Virginia1940945044.4%-5.9-5.2-11.1%
Virginia1939954055.6%-0.7+7.2+5.6%
Virginia1938944150.0%-7.9+9.5+27.8%
Virginia1937927022.2%-17.4-35.8-55.6%
Marquette1936972077.8%#2018.4+1.2-9.7%
Marquette1935871087.5%17.2+14.5+43.1%
Marquette1934945044.4%2.7+5.5+0.7%
Marquette1933834143.8%-2.8-2.8-12.5%
Marquette1932843156.3%0.0-0.5-32.6%
Marquette1931981088.9%0.5-6.4-5.6%
Marquette1930980194.4%6.9+6.0+38.2%
Marquette1929843156.3%0.9+11.3-4.9%
Marquette1928953161.1%-10.4-17.4-5.6%
Marquette1927963066.7%7.0

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