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Coach Profile

Larry Jones

1971-1973 • Florida State

One defining program at Florida State.

Larry Jones coached 3 seasons, won 44.1%, and posted an average SRS of 2.9. Best season: 1971 Florida State. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 15-19
Career win rate: 44.1%
Average SRS: 2.9
Peak SRS: 15.0

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: #0
Consistency: 3.2

Primary school anchor

Florida State

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 73.5.

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

Compare Larry Jones

Overall record: 15-19
Florida State record: 15-19
Full-season record: 15-19
Vs AP Top 25: 0-4
Vs AP Top 10: 0-1
Vs AP Top 5: 0-0
Vs Miami: 2-1
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: Dec 1, 1973. 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.

Larry Jones

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1971Actual season year • SRS range -15.3 to 15.01973

Active comparison point

Larry Jones • 1971

Selected

1971 Florida State

Best season

8-4 • SRS 15.0 • SP Overall 14.7

Win %

66.7%

YoY SRS

—

SP Off / Def

30.9 / 17.4

Finish

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

0-4

Games: 4
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 5

0-0

Games: 0
Win rate: —

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1973 Regular Week 10	Florida State	Houston	#15	L3-34
1973 Regular Week 5	Florida State	Miami	#17	L10-14
1972 Regular Week 8	Florida State	Auburn	#12	L14-27
1971 Postseason Week 1	Florida State	Arizona State	#8	L38-45

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Florida State

1971-1973 • 3 seasons

Avg SRS 2.9 • Win % 44.1%

Longest tenure: Florida State • 3 seasons
Best tenure: Florida State • 2.9 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Florida State • 44.1%

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.

Larry Jones sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Larry Jones sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Larry Jones

Above average

Raw avg SP Overall: 0.1
Percentile: 57th 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.

Florida State

1971-1973 • 15-19

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

Avg SRS 2.9Win % 44.1%

Avg wins

Higher is better

5.0 during vs 6.8 baseline

-1.8

Avg SRS

Higher is better

2.9 during vs 11.5 baseline

-8.6

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

0.1 during vs 10.3 baseline

-10.2

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

100.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+100.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Florida State 1971

8-4 • SRS 15.0

Biggest Improvement

Florida State 1972

7-4 • -6.0 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Florida State 1971

8-4 • SP Off 30.9

Best Defensive Season

Florida State 1971

8-4 • SP Def 17.4

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Florida State 1973

0-11 • SRS -15.3

Biggest Drop

Florida State 1973

0-11 • -24.3 SRS

Season-by-season results

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


Florida State	1973	11	0	11	0.0%	#0	#0	-15.3	-21.3	13.1	33.5	-24.3	-63.6%	Season summary
Florida State	1972	11	7	4	63.6%	#0	#0	9.0	6.8	30.9	26.1	-6.0	-3.0%	Season summary
Florida State	1971	12	8	4	66.7%	#0	#0	15.0	14.7	30.9	17.4	—	—	Season summary