Coach Profile
1966-1981 • South Carolina, Texas Tech, West Virginia
3 schools coached, anchored by South Carolina.
Jim Carlen coached 16 seasons, won 60.4%, and posted an average SRS of 8.1. Best season: 1973 Texas Tech. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 3 stops shaped the career arc.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
South Carolina
Defense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 84.2.
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.
Active comparison point
11-1 • SRS 20.0 • SP Overall 20.5
Win %
91.7%
YoY SRS
+7.6
SP Off / Def
36.1 / 17.0
Finish
#11
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
South Carolina
1975-1981 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS 9.1 • Win % 55.5%
Texas Tech
1970-1974 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 11.6 • Win % 64.4%
West Virginia
1966-1969 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 1.9 • Win % 64.6%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Jim Carlen sets the reference point in overall strength.
Jim Carlen sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Carlen
Elite
Elite
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
1975-1981 • 45-36-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.4 during vs 5.0 baseline
+1.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.1 during vs 2.2 baseline
+6.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.5 during vs 2.0 baseline
+8.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
1970-1974 • 37-20-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.4 during vs 5.6 baseline
+1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
11.6 during vs 6.5 baseline
+5.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
10.4 during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
20.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+20.0%
1966-1969 • 25-13-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.3 during vs 5.8 baseline
+0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
1.9 during vs -0.6 baseline
+2.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+25.0%
High Points
Best Season
Texas Tech 1973
11-1 • SRS 20.0
Biggest Improvement
West Virginia 1967
5-4-1 • 11.3 SRS
Best Offensive Season
South Carolina 1980
8-4 • SP Off 36.2
Best Defensive Season
Texas Tech 1974
6-4-2 • SP Def 11.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
West Virginia 1966
3-5-2 • SRS -8.3
Biggest Drop
Texas Tech 1971
4-7 • -11.0 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| South Carolina | 1981 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 8.5 | 9.2 | 26.6 | 18.1 | -6.8 | -16.7% |
| South Carolina | 1980 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 15.3 | 19.5 | 36.2 | 18.7 | +4.0 | 0.0% |
| South Carolina | 1979 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 11.3 | 16.0 | 29.9 | 15.0 | +4.1 | +16.7% |
| South Carolina | 1978 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 7.2 | 7.7 | 26.3 | 19.4 | +1.8 | +8.3% |
| South Carolina | 1977 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 5.4 | 6.8 | 23.6 | 17.7 | -5.1 | -12.9% |
| South Carolina | 1976 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 10.5 | 8.9 | 22.0 | 13.9 | +5.0 | -3.8% |
| South Carolina | 1975 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 5.5 | 5.1 | 32.6 | 29.0 | -4.7 | 0.0% |
| Texas Tech | 1974 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 58.3% | — | — | 10.2 | 11.1 | 22.0 | 11.6 | -9.8 | -33.3% |
| Texas Tech | 1973 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 91.7% | #20 | #11 | 20.0 | 20.5 | 36.1 | 17.0 | +7.6 | +25.0% |
| Texas Tech | 1972 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 12.4 | 12.8 | 29.6 | 17.4 | +10.2 | +30.3% |
| Texas Tech | 1971 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 2.2 | -0.7 | 13.1 | 14.0 | -11.0 | -30.3% |
| Texas Tech | 1970 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 13.2 | 8.5 | 22.7 | 15.0 | +4.0 | -24.2% |
| West Virginia | 1969 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | #17 | 9.2 | — | — | — | +5.4 | +20.9% |
| West Virginia | 1968 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 3.8 | — | — | — | +0.8 | +15.0% |
| West Virginia | 1967 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 3.0 | — | — | — | +11.3 | +15.0% |
| West Virginia | 1966 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 40.0% | — | — | -8.3 | — | — | — | — | — |
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