Top 25
1-7
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 12.5%
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Slip Madigan
1930-1944 • Iowa, Saint Mary's (CA)
2 schools coached, anchored by Saint Mary's (CA).
Slip Madigan coached 12 seasons, won 61.2%, and posted an average SRS of 9.3. Best season: 1931 Saint Mary's (CA). The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 61-37-9
- Career win rate
- 61.2%
- Average SRS
- 9.3
- Peak SRS
- 24.2
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
- 12
- Career span
- 15 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 39.4
Primary school anchor
Saint Mary's (CA)
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 91.5.
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.
Slip Madigan
EliteStrongAverageLean
Slip Madigan: 1943 Iowa
1930Actual season year • SRS range -3.1 to 24.21944
Active comparison point
Slip Madigan • 1931
1931 Saint Mary's (CA)
Best seasonBiggest improvement8-2 • SRS 24.2 • SP Overall —
Win %
80.0%
YoY SRS
+18.0
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results8
| 1944 Regular Week 7 | Iowa | Ohio State | #3 | L0-34 |
| 1943 Regular Week 7 | Iowa | Purdue | #3 | L7-28 |
| 1943 Regular Week 5 | Iowa | Iowa Pre-Flight | #8 | L0-25 |
| 1938 Regular Week 2 | Saint Mary's (CA) | California | #3 | L7-12 |
| 1938 Postseason Week 1 | Saint Mary's (CA) | Texas Tech | #11 | W20-13 |
| 1937 Regular Week 3 | Saint Mary's (CA) | Santa Clara | #10 | L0-7 |
| 1937 Regular Week 2 | Saint Mary's (CA) | California | #1 | L7-30 |
| 1936 Regular Week 6 | Saint Mary's (CA) | Fordham | #8 | L6-7 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Iowa
1943-1944 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -1.4 • Win % 15.6%
Saint Mary's (CA)
1930-1939 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 11.5 • Win % 69.2%
- Longest tenure
- Saint Mary's (CA) • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Saint Mary's (CA) • 11.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Saint Mary's (CA) • 69.2%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Slip Madigan
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Iowa
1943-1944 • 2-13-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.4Win % 15.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
1.0 during vs 4.0 baseline
-3.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.4 during vs 3.1 baseline
-4.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Saint Mary's (CA)
1930-1939 • 59-24-8
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 11.5Win % 69.2%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Saint Mary's (CA) 1931
8-2 • SRS 24.2
Biggest Improvement
Saint Mary's (CA) 1931
8-2 • 18.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Iowa 1944
1-7 • SRS -3.1
Biggest Drop
Saint Mary's (CA) 1932
6-2-1 • -11.6 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Iowa | 1944 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 12.5% | — | — | -3.1 | — | — | — | -3.3 | -6.3% |
| Iowa | 1943 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 18.8% | — | — | 0.2 | — | — | — | -5.8 | -25.0% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1939 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 43.8% | — | — | 6.0 | — | — | — | -3.9 | -31.3% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1938 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 9.9 | — | — | — | +8.0 | +19.4% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1937 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 55.6% | — | — | 1.9 | — | — | — | -7.9 | -9.4% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1936 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 9.8 | — | — | — | -6.1 | -1.7% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1935 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 66.7% | — | — | 15.9 | — | — | — | +4.2 | -11.1% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1934 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 11.7 | — | — | — | -5.1 | +12.8% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1933 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 16.8 | — | — | — | +4.2 | -7.2% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1932 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | — | 12.6 | — | — | — | -11.6 | -7.8% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1931 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 24.2 | — | — | — | +18.0 | -8.9% |
| Saint Mary's (CA) | 1930 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | — | 6.2 | — | — | — | — | — |
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