Coach Profile
1938-1948 • Utah State
One defining program at Utah State.
E Lowell Romney coached 10 seasons, won 48.3%, and posted an average SRS of -17.9. Best season: 1946 Utah State. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints 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
Utah State
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 22.4.
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.
Active comparison point
7-2-1 • SRS -5.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
75.0%
YoY SRS
+12.9
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
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.
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Utah State
1944-1948 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -15.6 • Win % 56.7%
Utah State
1938-1942 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -20.1 • Win % 39.3%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
E Lowell Romney
Insufficient sample
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
1944-1948 • 25-19-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (4 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 2.8 baseline
+2.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-15.6 during vs -21.4 baseline
+5.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
1938-1942 • 15-24-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
High Points
Best Season
Utah State 1946
7-2-1 • SRS -5.8
Biggest Improvement
Utah State 1946
7-2-1 • 12.9 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Utah State 1942
6-3-1 • SRS -27.6
Biggest Drop
Utah State 1948
5-6 • -14.1 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Utah State | 1948 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -21.9 | — | — | — | -14.1 | -9.1% |
| Utah State | 1947 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -7.8 | — | — | — | -2.0 | -20.4% |
| Utah State | 1946 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | -5.8 | — | — | — | +12.9 | +17.9% |
| Utah State | 1945 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 57.1% | — | — | -18.7 | — | — | — | +5.3 | +7.1% |
| Utah State | 1944 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -24.0 | — | — | — | +3.6 | -15.0% |
| Utah State | 1942 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | -27.6 | — | — | — | -3.5 | +65.0% |
| Utah State | 1941 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -24.1 | — | — | — | -7.8 | -31.3% |
| Utah State | 1940 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 31.3% | — | — | -16.3 | — | — | — | +1.3 | -12.5% |
| Utah State | 1939 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 43.8% | — | — | -17.6 | — | — | — | -2.9 | -6.3% |
| Utah State | 1938 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -14.7 | — | — | — | — | — |
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