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- Win rate
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John Coatta
1967-1969 • Wisconsin
One defining program at Wisconsin.
John Coatta coached 3 seasons, won 11.7%, and posted an average SRS of -7.9. Best season: 1969 Wisconsin. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 3-26-1
- Career win rate
- 11.7%
- Average SRS
- -7.9
- Peak SRS
- -4.7
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
- 3
- Career span
- 3 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 94.5
Primary school anchor
Wisconsin
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 24.5.
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.
John Coatta
EliteStrongAverageLean
1967Actual season year • SRS range -10.9 to -4.71969
Active comparison point
John Coatta • 1969
1969 Wisconsin
Best seasonBiggest improvement3-7 • SRS -4.7 • SP Overall —
Win %
30.0%
YoY SRS
+6.2
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results8
| 1969 Regular Week 9 | Wisconsin | Ohio State | #1 | L7-62 |
| 1969 Regular Week 8 | Wisconsin | Michigan | #18 | L7-35 |
| 1969 Regular Week 3 | Wisconsin | UCLA | #11 | L23-34 |
| 1969 Regular Week 2 | Wisconsin | Oklahoma | #6 | L21-48 |
| 1968 Regular Week 10 | Wisconsin | Michigan | #4 | L9-34 |
| 1968 Regular Week 9 | Wisconsin | Ohio State | #2 | L8-43 |
| 1968 Regular Week 4 | Wisconsin | Michigan State | #19 | L0-39 |
| 1967 Regular Week 9 | Wisconsin | Indiana | #6 | L9-14 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Wisconsin
1967-1969 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -7.9 • Win % 11.7%
- Longest tenure
- Wisconsin • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Wisconsin • -7.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Wisconsin • 11.7%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
John Coatta
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Wisconsin
1967-1969 • 3-26-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.9Win % 11.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
1.0 during vs 4.2 baseline
-3.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.9 during vs 5.8 baseline
-13.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Wisconsin 1969
3-7 • SRS -4.7
Biggest Improvement
Wisconsin 1969
3-7 • 6.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Wisconsin 1968
0-10 • SRS -10.9
Biggest Drop
Wisconsin 1968
0-10 • -2.9 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Wisconsin | 1969 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -4.7 | — | — | — | +6.2 | +30.0% |
| Wisconsin | 1968 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -10.9 | — | — | — | -2.9 | -5.0% |
| Wisconsin | 1967 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 5.0% | — | — | -8.0 | — | — | — | — | — |
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