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Bill Clark
2014-2021 • UAB
One defining program at UAB.
Bill Clark coached 6 seasons, won 65.3%, and posted an average SRS of -2.5. Best season: 2020 UAB. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 49-26
- Career win rate
- 65.3%
- Average SRS
- -2.5
- Peak SRS
- 4.1
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
- 6
- Career span
- 8 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 58.0
Primary school anchor
UAB
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 44.6.
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 Clark
EliteStrongAverageLean
2014Actual season year • SRS range -13.6 to 4.12021
Active comparison point
Bill Clark • 2020
2020 UAB
Best season6-3 • SRS 4.1 • SP Overall 6.3
Win %
66.7%
YoY SRS
+12.0
SP Off / Def
24.7 / 18.7
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.
Top 10
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results5
| 2021 Regular Week 12 | UAB | UTSA | #15 | L31-34 |
| 2021 Regular Week 2 | UAB | Georgia | #2 | L7-56 |
| 2021 Postseason Week 1 | UAB | BYU | #19 | W31-28 |
| 2019 Postseason Week 1 | UAB | App State | #19 | L17-31 |
| 2014 Regular Week 13 | UAB | Marshall | #18 | L18-23 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
UAB
2017-2021 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -3.2 • Win % 68.3%
UAB
2014-2014 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 0.5 • Win % 50.0%
- Longest tenure
- UAB • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- UAB • 0.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- UAB • 68.3%
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 Clark sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeBill Clark sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Bill Clark
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 1.9
- Percentile
- 64th pct
Above average
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.
UAB
2017-2021 • 43-20
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (3 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -3.2Win % 68.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
8.6 during vs 3.7 baseline
+4.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-3.2 during vs -13.7 baseline
+10.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
3.4 during vs -12.0 baseline
+15.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
UAB
2014-2014 • 6-6
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.5Win % 50.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 3.4 baseline
+2.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.5 during vs -16.4 baseline
+16.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-4.2 during vs -13.5 baseline
+9.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
UAB 2020
6-3 • SRS 4.1
Biggest Improvement
UAB 2018
11-3 • 14.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
UAB 2021
9-4 • SP Off 32.1
Best Defensive Season
UAB 2020
6-3 • SP Def 18.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
UAB 2017
8-5 • SRS -13.6
Biggest Drop
UAB 2017
8-5 • -14.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| UAB | 2021 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 1.0 | 9.1 | 32.1 | 21.7 | -3.1 | +2.6% |
| UAB | 2020 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 4.1 | 6.3 | 24.7 | 18.7 | +12.0 | +2.4% |
| UAB | 2019 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 64.3% | — | — | -7.9 | -1.4 | 18.3 | 20.2 | -8.5 | -14.3% |
| UAB | 2018 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 78.6% | — | — | 0.6 | -0.3 | 24.1 | 24.4 | +14.2 | +17.0% |
| UAB | 2017 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -13.6 | — | — | — | -14.1 | +11.5% |
| UAB | 2014 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 0.5 | -4.2 | 26.0 | 32.8 | — | — |
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