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Jerry Ippoliti
1971-1975 • Northern Illinois
One defining program at Northern Illinois.
Jerry Ippoliti coached 5 seasons, won 46.4%, and posted an average SRS of -12.1. Best season: 1971 Northern Illinois. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 25-29-1
- Career win rate
- 46.4%
- Average SRS
- -12.1
- Peak SRS
- -7.0
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
- 5
- Career span
- 5 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 81.3
Primary school anchor
Northern Illinois
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 20.5.
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.
Jerry Ippoliti
EliteStrongAverageLean
1971Actual season year • SRS range -18.6 to -7.01975
Active comparison point
Jerry Ippoliti • 1971
1971 Northern Illinois
Best season5-5-1 • SRS -7.0 • SP Overall -6.7
Win %
50.0%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
22.2 / 28.3
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.
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| 1971 Regular Week 9 | Northern Illinois | Toledo | #14 | L8-23 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Northern Illinois
1971-1975 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -12.1 • Win % 46.4%
- Longest tenure
- Northern Illinois • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Northern Illinois • -12.1 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Northern Illinois • 46.4%
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.
Jerry Ippoliti sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJerry Ippoliti sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jerry Ippoliti
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -12.5
- Percentile
- 21th 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.
Northern Illinois
1971-1975 • 25-29-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -12.1Win % 46.4%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Northern Illinois 1971
5-5-1 • SRS -7.0
Biggest Improvement
Northern Illinois 1975
3-8 • 8.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Northern Illinois 1973
6-5 • SP Off 26.6
Best Defensive Season
Northern Illinois 1972
7-4 • SP Def 20.2
Setbacks
Worst Season
Northern Illinois 1974
4-7 • SRS -18.6
Biggest Drop
Northern Illinois 1973
6-5 • -6.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Northern Illinois | 1975 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -10.2 | -11.8 | 17.0 | 28.0 | +8.4 | -9.1% |
| Northern Illinois | 1974 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -18.6 | -24.8 | 12.6 | 35.4 | -3.0 | -18.2% |
| Northern Illinois | 1973 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -15.6 | -14.4 | 26.6 | 37.5 | -6.7 | -9.1% |
| Northern Illinois | 1972 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -8.9 | -4.6 | 15.9 | 20.2 | -1.9 | +13.6% |
| Northern Illinois | 1971 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | -7.0 | -6.7 | 22.2 | 28.3 | — | — |
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