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Carl Selmer

1975-1976Miami

One defining program at Miami.

Carl Selmer coached 2 seasons, won 23.8%, and posted an average SRS of 5.8. Best season: 1976 Miami. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
5-16
Career win rate
23.8%
Average SRS
5.8
Peak SRS
8.9

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
2
Career span
2 years
Best finish
Consistency

Primary school anchor

Miami

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 58.7.

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.

Carl Selmer
EliteStrongAverageLean
1975Actual season year • SRS range 2.8 to 8.91976

Active comparison point

Carl Selmer1976

Selected

1976 Miami

Best seasonBiggest improvementBiggest drop

3-8 • SRS 8.9 • SP Overall 9.8

Win %

27.3%

YoY SRS

+6.1

SP Off / Def

27.5 / 18.4

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.

Poll source
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-8

Games
8
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-4

Games
4
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-3

Games
3
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results8
1976 Regular Week 12MiamiNotre Dame#13L27-40
1976 Regular Week 11MiamiPenn State#17L7-21
1976 Regular Week 7MiamiPittsburgh#2L19-36
1976 Regular Week 5MiamiNebraska#6L9-17
1975 Regular Week 13MiamiFlorida#13L11-15
1975 Regular Week 6MiamiColorado#13L10-23
1975 Regular Week 5MiamiNebraska#4L16-31
1975 Regular Week 4MiamiOklahoma#1L17-20

Tenure map

Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Miami

1975-19762 seasons

Avg SRS 5.8 • Win % 23.8%

Longest tenure
Miami • 2 seasons
Best tenure
Miami • 5.8 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Miami • 23.8%

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.

Carl Selmer sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Carl Selmer sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Carl Selmer

Strong

Raw avg SP Overall
7.8
Percentile
80th pct

Strong

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.

Miami

1975-19765-16

Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS 5.8Win % 23.8%

Avg wins

Higher is better

2.5 during vs 4.3 baseline

-1.8

Avg SRS

Higher is better

5.8 during vs 2.5 baseline

+3.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

7.8 during vs 3.1 baseline

+4.6

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Miami 1976

3-8SRS 8.9

Biggest Improvement

Miami 1976

3-86.1 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Miami 1976

3-8SP Off 27.5

Best Defensive Season

Miami 1976

3-8SP Def 18.4

Setbacks

Worst Season

Miami 1975

2-8SRS 2.8

Biggest Drop

Miami 1976

3-86.1 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Miami19761138027.3%8.99.827.518.4+6.1+7.3%
Miami19751028020.0%2.85.726.321.6

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