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1-5-1
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 21.4%
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Cecil Isbell
1944-1946 • Purdue
One defining program at Purdue.
Cecil Isbell coached 3 seasons, won 50.0%, and posted an average SRS of 15.6. Best season: 1945 Purdue. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 14-14-1
- Career win rate
- 50.0%
- Average SRS
- 15.6
- Peak SRS
- 20.5
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
- 3
- Career span
- 3 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 66.8
Primary school anchor
Purdue
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 85.4.
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.
Cecil Isbell
EliteStrongAverageLean
1944Actual season year • SRS range 7.8 to 20.51946
Active comparison point
Cecil Isbell • 1945
1945 Purdue
Best seasonBiggest improvement7-3 • SRS 20.5 • SP Overall —
Win %
70.0%
YoY SRS
+2.0
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
1-2
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 33.3%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results7
| 1946 Regular Week 6 | Purdue | Ohio State | #13 | T14-14 |
| 1946 Regular Week 5 | Purdue | Notre Dame | #2 | L6-49 |
| 1946 Regular Week 4 | Purdue | Illinois | #11 | L7-43 |
| 1946 Regular Week 3 | Purdue | Iowa | #17 | L0-16 |
| 1945 Regular Week 7 | Purdue | Ohio State | #7 | W35-13 |
| 1944 Regular Week 8 | Purdue | Iowa Pre-Flight | #6 | L6-13 |
| 1944 Regular Week 5 | Purdue | Great Lakes Navy | #14 | L18-27 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Purdue
1944-1946 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 15.6 • Win % 50.0%
- Longest tenure
- Purdue • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Purdue • 15.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Purdue • 50.0%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Cecil Isbell
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.
Purdue
1944-1946 • 14-14-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 15.6Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.7 during vs 3.4 baseline
+1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
15.6 during vs 7.3 baseline
+8.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— 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
Purdue 1945
7-3 • SRS 20.5
Biggest Improvement
Purdue 1945
7-3 • 2.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Purdue 1946
2-6-1 • SRS 7.8
Biggest Drop
Purdue 1946
2-6-1 • -12.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Purdue | 1946 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 27.8% | — | — | 7.8 | — | — | — | -12.7 | -42.2% |
| Purdue | 1945 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 70.0% | — | — | 20.5 | — | — | — | +2.0 | +20.0% |
| Purdue | 1944 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 18.5 | — | — | — | — | — |
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