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Clay Stapleton

1958-1967 • Iowa State

One defining program at Iowa State.

Clay Stapleton coached 10 seasons, won 44.4%, and posted an average SRS of -0.4. Best season: 1959 Iowa State. The profile was balanced with a swing-heavy profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record
42-53-4
Career win rate
44.4%
Average SRS
-0.4
Peak SRS
8.4

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
10
Career span
10 years
Best finish
—
Consistency
54.2

Primary school anchor

Iowa State

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 57.3.

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.

Clay Stapleton
EliteStrongAverageLean
1958Actual season year • SRS range -13.6 to 8.41967

Active comparison point

Clay Stapleton • 1959

Selected

1959 Iowa State

Best seasonBiggest improvement

7-3 • SRS 8.4 • SP Overall —

Win %

70.0%

YoY SRS

+13.0

SP Off / Def

— / —

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
Ranking timing

Top 25

0-12

Games
12
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-10

Games
10
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-3

Games
3
Win rate
0.0%
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1967 Regular Week 10Iowa StateOklahoma#7L14-52
1967 Regular Week 5Iowa StateColorado#6L0-34
1966 Regular Week 4Iowa StateNebraska#7L6-12
1965 Regular Week 4Iowa StateNebraska#2L0-44
1964 Regular Week 4Iowa StateNebraska#6L7-14
1963 Regular Week 9Iowa StateOklahoma#5L14-24
1961 Regular Week 11Iowa StateColorado#6L0-34
1960 Regular Week 7Iowa StateMissouri#5L8-34
1960 Regular Week 5Iowa StateKansas#9L14-28
1959 Regular Week 11Iowa StateOklahoma#17L12-35
1958 Regular Week 9Iowa StateOklahoma#6L0-20
1958 Regular Week 6Iowa StateColorado#12L0-20

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Iowa State

1958-1967 • 10 seasons

Avg SRS -0.4 • Win % 44.4%

Longest tenure
Iowa State • 10 seasons
Best tenure
Iowa State • -0.4 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Iowa State • 44.4%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Clay Stapleton

Insufficient sample

Raw avg SP Overall
—
Percentile
—

Insufficient sample

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.

Iowa State

1958-1967 • 42-53-4

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

Avg SRS -0.4Win % 44.4%

Avg wins

Higher is better

4.2 during vs 2.4 baseline

+1.8

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-0.4 during vs -10.4 baseline

+10.0

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

— during vs — baseline

—

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Iowa State 1959

7-3 • SRS 8.4

Biggest Improvement

Iowa State 1959

7-3 • 13.0 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Worst Season

Iowa State 1967

2-8 • SRS -13.6

Biggest Drop

Iowa State 1967

2-8 • -9.2 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Iowa State19671028020.0%——-13.6———-9.2-10.0%
Iowa State19661026230.0%——-4.4———-3.6-25.0%
Iowa State19651054155.0%——-0.8———+5.1+40.0%
Iowa State19641018115.0%——-5.9———-7.8-29.4%
Iowa State1963945044.4%——1.9———-5.1-5.6%
Iowa State19621055050.0%——7.0———+3.50.0%
Iowa State19611055050.0%——3.5———-0.7-20.0%
Iowa State19601073070.0%——4.2———-4.20.0%
Iowa State19591073070.0%——8.4———+13.0+30.0%
Iowa State19581046040.0%——-4.6—————

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