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- Games
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- Win rate
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James Valek
1967-1970 • Illinois
One defining program at Illinois.
James Valek coached 4 seasons, won 20.0%, and posted an average SRS of -5.5. Best season: 1970 Illinois. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 8-32
- Career win rate
- 20.0%
- Average SRS
- -5.5
- Peak SRS
- 0.7
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
- 4
- Career span
- 4 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 55.0
Primary school anchor
Illinois
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 36.5.
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.
James Valek
EliteStrongAverageLean
1967Actual season year • SRS range -15.9 to 0.71970
Active comparison point
James Valek • 1970
1970 Illinois
Best seasonBiggest improvement3-7 • SRS 0.7 • SP Overall -8.5
Win %
30.0%
YoY SRS
+16.6
SP Off / Def
23.5 / 31.2
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
0-10
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results11
| 1970 Regular Week 11 | Illinois | Michigan | #4 | L0-42 |
| 1970 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Ohio State | #3 | L29-48 |
| 1969 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Michigan | #14 | L0-57 |
| 1969 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Purdue | #10 | L22-49 |
| 1969 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Ohio State | #1 | L0-41 |
| 1969 Regular Week 3 | Illinois | Missouri | #9 | L6-37 |
| 1968 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Michigan | #7 | L0-36 |
| 1968 Regular Week 8 | Illinois | Purdue | #6 | L17-35 |
| 1968 Regular Week 7 | Illinois | Ohio State | #2 | L24-31 |
| 1968 Regular Week 6 | Illinois | Notre Dame | #6 | L8-58 |
| 1967 Regular Week 9 | Illinois | Purdue | #5 | L9-42 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Illinois
1967-1970 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -5.5 • Win % 20.0%
- Longest tenure
- Illinois • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Illinois • -5.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Illinois • 20.0%
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.
James Valek sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJames Valek sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
James Valek
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -8.5
- Percentile
- 31th pct
Lower end
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.
Illinois
1967-1970 • 8-32
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -5.5Win % 20.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.0 during vs 5.2 baseline
-3.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-5.5 during vs 12.2 baseline
-17.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.5 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
Illinois 1970
3-7 • SRS 0.7
Biggest Improvement
Illinois 1970
3-7 • 16.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Illinois 1970
3-7 • SP Off 23.5
Best Defensive Season
Illinois 1970
3-7 • SP Def 31.2
Setbacks
Worst Season
Illinois 1969
0-10 • SRS -15.9
Biggest Drop
Illinois 1969
0-10 • -11.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Illinois | 1970 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 0.7 | -8.5 | 23.5 | 31.2 | +16.6 | +30.0% |
| Illinois | 1969 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -15.9 | — | — | — | -11.0 | -10.0% |
| Illinois | 1968 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10.0% | — | — | -4.9 | — | — | — | -3.0 | -30.0% |
| Illinois | 1967 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -1.9 | — | — | — | — | — |
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