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Lloyd Eaton

1962-1970Wyoming

One defining program at Wyoming.

Lloyd Eaton coached 9 seasons, won 63.0%, and posted an average SRS of 5.5. Best season: 1966 Wyoming. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
57-33-2
Career win rate
63.0%
Average SRS
5.5
Peak SRS
23.4

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
9
Career span
9 years
Best finish
#6
Consistency
7.8

Primary school anchor

Wyoming

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 90.2.

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.

Lloyd Eaton
EliteStrongAverageLean
1962Actual season year • SRS range -13.8 to 23.41970

Active comparison point

Lloyd Eaton1966

Selected

1966 Wyoming

Best seasonBiggest improvement

10-1 • SRS 23.4 • SP Overall

Win %

90.9%

YoY SRS

+21.1

SP Off / Def

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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

1-5

Games
6
Win rate
16.7%

Top 10

0-2

Games
2
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
View ranked game results6
1970 Regular Week 6WyomingArizona State#12L3-52
1970 Regular Week 4WyomingAir Force#10L17-41
1969 Regular Week 11WyomingHouston#18L14-41
1968 Regular Week 4WyomingArizona State#14W27-13
1968 Regular Week 1WyomingNebraska#14L10-13
1965 Regular Week 12WyomingUSC#8L6-56

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Wyoming

1962-19709 seasons

Avg SRS 5.5 • Win % 63.0%

Longest tenure
Wyoming • 9 seasons
Best tenure
Wyoming • 5.5 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Wyoming • 63.0%

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.

Lloyd Eaton sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Lloyd Eaton sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Lloyd Eaton

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall
-16.3
Percentile
12th 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.

Wyoming

1962-197057-33-2

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

Avg SRS 5.5Win % 63.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

6.3 during vs 7.0 baseline

-0.7

Avg SRS

Higher is better

5.5 during vs 3.9 baseline

+1.6

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-16.3 during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

11.1% during vs 20.0% baseline

-8.9%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Wyoming 1966

10-1SRS 23.4

Biggest Improvement

Wyoming 1966

10-121.1 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Wyoming 1970

1-9SP Off 17.5

Best Defensive Season

Wyoming 1970

1-9SP Def 33.3

Setbacks

Worst Season

Wyoming 1970

1-9SRS -13.8

Biggest Drop

Wyoming 1970

1-9-23.5 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Wyoming19701019010.0%-13.8-16.317.533.3-23.5-50.0%
Wyoming19691064060.0%9.7-1.8-10.0%
Wyoming19681073070.0%11.5-5.9-20.9%
Wyoming196711101090.9%#617.4-6.00.0%
Wyoming196611101090.9%23.4+21.1+30.9%
Wyoming19651064060.0%2.3-5.4-10.0%
Wyoming19641062270.0%7.7+12.4+10.0%
Wyoming19631064060.0%-4.7-0.9+10.0%
Wyoming19621055050.0%-3.8

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