Coach Profile
2015-2025 • Buffalo, Kansas
2 schools coached, anchored by Buffalo.
Lance Leipold coached 11 seasons, won 49.2%, and posted an average SRS of -2.1. Best season: 2023 Kansas. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 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
Buffalo
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 64.3.
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
9-4 • SRS 11.0 • SP Overall 9.9
Win %
69.2%
YoY SRS
+3.4
SP Off / Def
35.6 / 26.1
Finish
#23
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.
Kansas
2021-2025 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 3.5 • Win % 44.0%
Buffalo
2015-2020 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS -7.7 • Win % 52.9%
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.
Lance Leipold sets the reference point in overall strength.
Lance Leipold sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Lance Leipold
Mixed
Mixed
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
2021-2025 • 22-28
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.4 during vs 1.8 baseline
+2.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.5 during vs -10.8 baseline
+14.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
0.4 during vs -13.4 baseline
+13.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
20.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+20.0%
2015-2020 • 37-33
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.2 during vs 3.9 baseline
+2.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.7 during vs -14.1 baseline
+6.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-8.7 during vs -15.9 baseline
+7.2
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
16.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+16.7%
High Points
Best Season
Kansas 2023
9-4 • SRS 11.0
Biggest Improvement
Kansas 2022
6-7 • 22.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Kansas 2022
6-7 • SP Off 40.6
Best Defensive Season
Buffalo 2019
8-5 • SP Def 24.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
Buffalo 2016
2-10 • SRS -22.8
Biggest Drop
Buffalo 2016
2-10 • -12.0 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kansas | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 3.2 | 4.1 | 30.9 | 28.5 | -7.6 | — |
| Kansas | 2024 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #22 | — | 10.8 | 4.9 | 32.4 | 26.5 | -0.2 | -27.6% |
| Kansas | 2023 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | #23 | 11.0 | 9.9 | 35.6 | 26.1 | +3.4 | +23.1% |
| Kansas | 2022 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | 7.6 | 2.9 | 40.6 | 36.0 | +22.5 | +29.5% |
| Kansas | 2021 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -14.9 | -19.7 | 22.3 | 40.6 | — | -69.0% |
| Buffalo | 2020 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.7% | — | #25 | — | — | — | — | — | +24.2% |
| Buffalo | 2019 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -1.0 | -2.0 | 25.0 | 24.6 | -1.5 | -9.9% |
| Buffalo | 2018 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 71.4% | — | — | 0.5 | -1.1 | 31.3 | 29.9 | +4.8 | +21.4% |
| Buffalo | 2017 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -4.3 | -11.2 | 24.9 | 33.9 | +18.5 | +33.3% |
| Buffalo | 2016 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -22.8 | -18.8 | 16.8 | 33.5 | -12.0 | -25.0% |
| Buffalo | 2015 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -10.8 | -10.3 | 24.1 | 32.2 | — | — |
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