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Mike Sanford Jr

2017-2022 • Colorado, Western Kentucky

2 schools coached, anchored by Western Kentucky.

Mike Sanford Jr's coaching record is 10-22, highlighted by seasons at Western Kentucky from 2017 to 2022.

Mike Sanford Jr coached 3 seasons, won 31.3%, and posted an average SRS of -15.0. Best season: 2022 Colorado. The profile was offense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. 2 stints shaped the career arc.

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Career record: 10-22
Career win rate: 31.3%
Average SRS: -15.0
Peak SRS: -14.7

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: 6 years
Best finish: —
Consistency: 99.8

Primary school anchor

Western Kentucky

Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 9.2.

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Records fans search first

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

Compare Mike Sanford Jr

Overall record: 10-22
Western Kentucky record: 9-16
Full-season record: 9-16
Partial-season record: 1-6
Vs AP Top 25: 0-1
Vs AP Top 10: 0-1
Vs AP Top 5: 0-1
Vs Middle Tennessee: 1-1
Postseason / bowl record: 0-1
CFP record: 0-0
National titles: 0

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 26, 2022. 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.

Mike Sanford Jr

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Mike Sanford Jr: 2022 Colorado

2017Actual season year • SRS range -15.2 to -14.72022

Active comparison point

Mike Sanford Jr • 2022

Selected

2022 Colorado

Best seasonBiggest improvementNew stop: Colorado

1-6 • SRS -14.7 • SP Overall -20.4

Win %

14.3%

YoY SRS

+0.5

SP Off / Def

24.0 / 45.0

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

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 5

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

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2018 Regular Week 1	Western Kentucky	Wisconsin	#4	L3-34

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Colorado

2022-2022 • 1 seasons

Avg SRS -14.7 • Win % 14.3%

Western Kentucky

2017-2018 • 2 seasons

Avg SRS -15.1 • Win % 36.0%

Longest tenure: Western Kentucky • 2 seasons
Best tenure: Colorado • -14.7 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Western Kentucky • 36.0%

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.

Mike Sanford Jr sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Mike Sanford Jr sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Mike Sanford Jr

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall: -13.8
Percentile: 18th pct

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.

Colorado

2022-2022 • 1-6

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS -14.7Win % 14.3%

No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Western Kentucky

2017-2018 • 9-16

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

Avg SRS -15.1Win % 36.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.5 during vs 9.0 baseline

-4.5

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-15.1 during vs 2.1 baseline

-17.2

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-10.5 during vs 3.2 baseline

-13.7

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline

-20.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Colorado 2022

1-6 • SRS -14.7

Biggest Improvement

Colorado 2022

1-6 • 0.5 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Western Kentucky 2017

6-7 • SP Off 25.5

Best Defensive Season

Western Kentucky 2017

6-7 • SP Def 30.0

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Western Kentucky 2018

3-9 • SRS -15.2

Biggest Drop

Western Kentucky 2018

3-9 • -0.2 SRS

Season-by-season results

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


Colorado	2022	7	1	6	14.3%	—	—	-14.7	-20.4	24.0	45.0	+0.5	-10.7%	Partial season
Western Kentucky	2018	12	3	9	25.0%	—	—	-15.2	-16.1	17.9	31.8	-0.2	-21.1%	Season summary
Western Kentucky	2017	13	6	7	46.2%	—	—	-15.0	-4.9	25.5	30.0	—	—	Season summary

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