Coach Profile
1992-1996 • Illinois
One defining stop at Illinois.
Lou Tepper coached 5 seasons, won 45.6%, and posted an average SRS of 5.8. Best season: 1994 Illinois. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stop defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Illinois
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 83.0.
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
7-5 • SRS 19.5 • SP Overall 21.7
Win %
58.3%
YoY SRS
+13.8
SP Off / Def
33.3 / 12.4
Finish
Unranked
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.
Illinois
1992-1996 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 5.8 • Win % 45.6%
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.
Lou Tepper sets the reference point in overall strength.
Lou Tepper sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Lou Tepper
Strong
Strong
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
1992-1996 • 25-30-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 6.6 baseline
-1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.8 during vs 6.0 baseline
-0.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 6.8 baseline
-0.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
High Points
Best Season
Illinois 1994
7-5 • SRS 19.5
Biggest Improvement
Illinois 1994
7-5 • 13.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Illinois 1994
7-5 • SP Off 33.3
Best Defensive Season
Illinois 1994
7-5 • SP Def 12.4
Setbacks
Worst Season
Illinois 1996
2-9 • SRS -5.4
Biggest Drop
Illinois 1996
2-9 • -14.0 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Illinois | 1996 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -5.4 | -6.3 | 28.7 | 34.1 | -14.0 | -31.8% |
| Illinois | 1995 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 8.6 | 9.8 | 25.5 | 16.9 | -10.9 | -8.3% |
| Illinois | 1994 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #21 | — | 19.5 | 21.7 | 33.3 | 12.4 | +13.8 | +12.9% |
| Illinois | 1993 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 5.7 | 3.7 | 24.0 | 21.0 | +5.0 | -8.7% |
| Illinois | 1992 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 54.2% | — | — | 0.7 | 1.0 | 23.7 | 23.0 | — | — |
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