Coach Profile
2013-2025 • Georgia Southern, USC
2 schools coached, anchored by USC.
Clay Helton coached 12 seasons, won 60.6%, and posted an average SRS of 4.3. Best season: 2016 USC. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stops shaped the career arc.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
USC
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 82.9.
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stop began.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Active comparison point
10-3 • SRS 19.4 • SP Overall 23.6
Win %
76.9%
YoY SRS
+5.8
SP Off / Def
39.2 / 17.1
Finish
#3
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Georgia Southern
2022-2025 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -6.1 • Win % 51.3%
USC
2013-2021 • 8 seasons
Avg SRS 10.3 • Win % 65.7%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Clay Helton sets the reference point in overall strength.
Clay Helton sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Clay Helton
Strong
Strong
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
2022-2025 • 20-19
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 5.5 baseline
-0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.1 during vs -6.5 baseline
+0.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.7 during vs -7.6 baseline
+1.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
2013-2021 • 46-24
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.8 during vs 9.2 baseline
-3.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
10.3 during vs 15.7 baseline
-5.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
14.7 during vs 23.1 baseline
-8.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 60.0% baseline
-10.0%
High Points
Best Season
USC 2016
10-3 • SRS 19.4
Biggest Improvement
USC 2019
8-5 • 8.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
USC 2016
10-3 • SP Off 39.2
Best Defensive Season
USC 2013
1-0 • SP Def 12.5
Setbacks
Worst Season
Georgia Southern 2023
6-7 • SRS -8.6
Biggest Drop
USC 2018
5-7 • -10.6 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Georgia Southern | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | -8.6 | -9.4 | 28.3 | 37.7 | -6.1 | — |
| Georgia Southern | 2024 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -2.5 | -1.7 | 26.5 | 30.1 | +6.1 | +15.4% |
| Georgia Southern | 2023 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -8.6 | -5.2 | 30.8 | 36.5 | -3.8 | 0.0% |
| Georgia Southern | 2022 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -4.8 | -6.4 | 34.3 | 40.3 | -5.2 | -3.9% |
| USC | 2021 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% | #15 | — | 0.4 | -0.6 | 32.3 | 33.4 | — | -33.3% |
| USC | 2020 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83.3% | #17 | #21 | — | — | — | — | — | +21.8% |
| USC | 2019 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 9.5 | 13.1 | 39.0 | 26.7 | +8.2 | +19.9% |
| USC | 2018 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | #15 | — | 1.3 | 9.7 | 31.7 | 22.5 | -10.6 | -36.9% |
| USC | 2017 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | #4 | #12 | 11.9 | 17.9 | 38.5 | 20.0 | -7.5 | +1.7% |
| USC | 2016 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | #20 | #3 | 19.4 | 23.6 | 39.2 | 17.1 | +5.8 | +21.4% |
| USC | 2015 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | #8 | — | 13.6 | 16.8 | 38.6 | 23.3 | -2.1 | -44.4% |
| USC | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #24 | #19 | 15.7 | 22.5 | 36.6 | 12.5 | — | — |
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