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Bill Michael

1977-1981UTEP

One defining program at UTEP.

Bill Michael's coaching record is 5-43, highlighted by seasons at UTEP from 1977 to 1981.

Bill Michael coached 5 seasons, won 10.4%, and posted an average SRS of -19.0. Best season: 1979 UTEP. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
5-43
Career win rate
10.4%
Average SRS
-19.0
Peak SRS
-16.3

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
96.9

Primary school anchor

UTEP

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 7.5.

Quick Answers

Records fans search first

Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Bill Michael
Overall record
5-43

48 countable games, 10.4% win rate.

UTEP record
5-43

5 countable seasons at UTEP.

Full-season record
5-41

4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.

Partial-season record
0-2

Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.

Vs AP Top 25
0-3

3 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 10
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs AP Top 5
0-0

0 games using AP ranking at game time.

Vs New Mexico State
1-3

Battle of I-10 games in this dataset.

Postseason / bowl record
0-0

0 scored postseason games in this dataset.

CFP record
0-0

0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.

National titles
0

Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.

Record definition and data status

Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.

Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.

Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 28, 1981. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.

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.

Bill Michael
EliteStrongAverageLean
1977Actual season year • SRS range -22.1 to -16.31981

Active comparison point

Bill Michael1979

Selected

1979 UTEP

Best seasonBiggest improvement

2-9 • SRS -16.3 • SP Overall -21.1

Win %

18.2%

YoY SRS

+2.5

SP Off / Def

10.1 / 30.2

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

0-3

Games
3
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-0

Games
0
Win rate

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
View ranked game results3
1980 Regular Week 10UTEPBYU#13L7-83
1979 Regular Week 5UTEPBYU#20L7-31
1977 Regular Week 13UTEPBYU#17L19-68

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

UTEP

1977-19815 seasons

Avg SRS -19.0 • Win % 10.4%

Longest tenure
UTEP • 5 seasons
Best tenure
UTEP • -19.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate
UTEP • 10.4%

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.

Bill Michael sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Bill Michael sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Bill Michael

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall
-22.9
Percentile
4th 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.

UTEP

1977-19815-43

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

Avg SRS -19.0Win % 10.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

1.3 during vs 1.4 baseline

-0.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-18.2 during vs -19.0 baseline

+0.8

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-22.0 during vs -22.5 baseline

+0.4

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

UTEP 1979

2-9SRS -16.3

Biggest Improvement

UTEP 1979

2-92.5 SRS

Best Offensive Season

UTEP 1977

1-10SP Off 24.0

Best Defensive Season

UTEP 1979

2-9SP Def 30.2

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

UTEP 1981

0-2SRS -22.1

Biggest Drop

UTEP 1980

1-11-3.3 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

UTEP198120200.0%-22.1-26.620.342.4-2.5-8.3%Partial season
UTEP19801211108.3%-19.6-23.517.938.5-3.3-9.8%Season summary
UTEP19791129018.2%-16.3-21.110.130.2+2.5+9.8%Season summary
UTEP19781211108.3%-18.8-21.319.137.9-0.6-0.8%Season summary
UTEP19771111009.1%-18.2-22.224.042.0Season summary

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