Coach Profile
2016-2025 • Houston, South Alabama
2 schools coached, anchored by Houston.
Major Applewhite coached 5 seasons, won 56.4%, and posted an average SRS of -1.5. Best season: 2016 Houston. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady 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
Houston
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 48.5.
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
0-1 • SRS 5.4 • SP Overall 10.1
Win %
0.0%
YoY SRS
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SP Off / Def
30.8 / 21.7
Finish
Unranked
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.
South Alabama
2024-2025 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -7.3 • Win % 53.8%
Houston
2016-2018 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 2.3 • Win % 57.7%
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.
Major Applewhite sets the reference point in overall strength.
Major Applewhite sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Major Applewhite
Above average
Above average
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
2024-2025 • 7-6
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.5 during vs 5.1 baseline
-1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.3 during vs -6.8 baseline
-0.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-5.0 during vs -4.6 baseline
-0.4
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
2016-2018 • 15-11
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 8.4 baseline
-3.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.3 during vs 4.8 baseline
-2.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
6.7 during vs 5.0 baseline
+1.7
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
High Points
Best Season
Houston 2016
0-1 • SRS 5.4
Biggest Improvement
South Alabama 2024
7-6 • -0.6 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Houston 2018
8-5 • SP Off 36.7
Best Defensive Season
Houston 2016
0-1 • SP Def 21.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
South Alabama 2025
0-0 • SRS -12.8
Biggest Drop
South Alabama 2025
0-0 • -11.1 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| South Alabama | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | -12.8 | -12.7 | 25.4 | 36.0 | -11.1 | — |
| South Alabama | 2024 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -1.7 | 2.8 | 29.9 | 26.9 | -0.6 | -7.7% |
| Houston | 2018 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | -1.1 | 2.3 | 36.7 | 34.9 | -3.8 | +3.2% |
| Houston | 2017 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | 2.7 | 7.7 | 32.3 | 25.8 | -2.7 | +58.3% |
| Houston | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | #15 | — | 5.4 | 10.1 | 30.8 | 21.7 | — | — |
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