Top 25
4-36
- Games
- 40
- Win rate
- 10.0%
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Coach Profile
Alex Agase
1964-1976 • Northwestern, Purdue
2 schools coached, anchored by Northwestern.
Alex Agase coached 13 seasons, won 37.8%, and posted an average SRS of 2.3. Best season: 1970 Northwestern. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 50-83-2
- Career win rate
- 37.8%
- Average SRS
- 2.3
- Peak SRS
- 17.7
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
- 13
- Career span
- 13 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 44.5
Primary school anchor
Northwestern
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 79.6.
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.
Alex Agase
EliteStrongAverageLean
Alex Agase: 1973 Purdue
1964Actual season year • SRS range -9.2 to 17.71976
Active comparison point
Alex Agase • 1970
1970 Northwestern
Best seasonBiggest improvement6-4 • SRS 17.7 • SP Overall 11.9
Win %
60.0%
YoY SRS
+21.2
SP Off / Def
29.2 / 18.1
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
2-28
- Games
- 30
- Win rate
- 6.7%
Top 5
2-17
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 10.5%
View ranked game results40
| 1976 Regular Week 10 | Purdue | Michigan | #4 | W16-14 |
| 1976 Regular Week 8 | Purdue | Ohio State | #8 | L3-24 |
| 1976 Regular Week 4 | Purdue | USC | #13 | L13-31 |
| 1975 Regular Week 10 | Purdue | Michigan | #6 | L0-28 |
| 1975 Regular Week 8 | Purdue | Ohio State | #1 | L6-35 |
| 1975 Regular Week 4 | Purdue | USC | #3 | L6-19 |
| 1975 Regular Week 3 | Purdue | Notre Dame | #9 | L0-17 |
| 1974 Regular Week 11 | Purdue | Michigan | #3 | L0-51 |
| 1974 Regular Week 4 | Purdue | Notre Dame | #2 | W31-20 |
| 1973 Regular Week 12 | Purdue | Michigan | #4 | L9-34 |
| 1973 Regular Week 5 | Purdue | Notre Dame | #8 | L7-20 |
| 1972 Regular Week 11 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #9 | L14-27 |
| 1972 Regular Week 3 | Northwestern | Notre Dame | #13 | L0-37 |
| 1972 Regular Week 2 | Northwestern | Michigan | #11 | L0-7 |
| 1971 Regular Week 11 | Northwestern | Michigan State | #19 | W28-7 |
| 1971 Regular Week 10 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #16 | W14-10 |
| 1971 Regular Week 6 | Northwestern | Purdue | #20 | L20-21 |
| 1971 Regular Week 2 | Northwestern | Notre Dame | #2 | L7-50 |
| 1970 Regular Week 10 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #3 | L10-24 |
| 1970 Regular Week 5 | Northwestern | UCLA | #15 | L7-12 |
| 1970 Regular Week 4 | Northwestern | Notre Dame | #4 | L14-35 |
| 1969 Regular Week 8 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #1 | L6-35 |
| 1969 Regular Week 7 | Northwestern | Purdue | #13 | L20-45 |
| 1969 Regular Week 4 | Northwestern | UCLA | #11 | L0-36 |
| 1969 Regular Week 3 | Northwestern | USC | #5 | L6-48 |
| 1969 Regular Week 2 | Northwestern | Notre Dame | #9 | L10-35 |
| 1968 Regular Week 8 | Northwestern | Michigan | #9 | L0-35 |
| 1968 Regular Week 6 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #2 | L21-45 |
| 1968 Regular Week 5 | Northwestern | Notre Dame | #5 | L7-27 |
| 1968 Regular Week 4 | Northwestern | Purdue | #1 | L6-43 |
| 1968 Regular Week 3 | Northwestern | USC | #3 | L7-24 |
| 1968 Regular Week 2 | Northwestern | Miami | #19 | L7-28 |
| 1967 Regular Week 5 | Northwestern | Purdue | #2 | L16-25 |
| 1966 Regular Week 8 | Northwestern | Michigan State | #2 | L0-22 |
| 1966 Regular Week 4 | Northwestern | Notre Dame | #3 | L7-35 |
| 1965 Regular Week 8 | Northwestern | Michigan State | #1 | L7-49 |
| 1965 Regular Week 4 | Northwestern | Notre Dame | #7 | L7-38 |
| 1965 Regular Week 2 | Northwestern | Florida | #8 | L14-24 |
| 1964 Regular Week 10 | Northwestern | Ohio State | #9 | L0-10 |
| 1964 Regular Week 8 | Northwestern | Michigan | #6 | L0-35 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Purdue
1973-1976 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 4.0 • Win % 42.0%
Northwestern
1964-1972 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS 1.5 • Win % 35.7%
- Longest tenure
- Northwestern • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- Purdue • 4.0 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Purdue • 42.0%
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.
Alex Agase sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeAlex Agase sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Alex Agase
Above average
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 1.5
- Percentile
- 63th 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.
Purdue
1973-1976 • 18-25-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.0Win % 42.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 5.8 baseline
-1.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 14.4 baseline
-10.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
0.9 during vs 6.7 baseline
-5.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Northwestern
1964-1972 • 32-58-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 1.5Win % 35.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.6 during vs 5.4 baseline
-1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
1.5 during vs 16.3 baseline
-14.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
2.3 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
Northwestern 1970
6-4 • SRS 17.7
Biggest Improvement
Northwestern 1970
6-4 • 21.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Northwestern 1970
6-4 • SP Off 29.2
Best Defensive Season
Northwestern 1971
7-4 • SP Def 17.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
Northwestern 1968
1-9 • SRS -9.2
Biggest Drop
Northwestern 1972
2-9 • -16.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Purdue | 1976 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 4.5 | 2.5 | 24.0 | 22.1 | +6.0 | +9.1% |
| Purdue | 1975 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -1.5 | -3.9 | 16.5 | 20.2 | -6.5 | -4.5% |
| Purdue | 1974 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 40.9% | — | — | 5.0 | 2.1 | 27.8 | 26.4 | -3.1 | -4.5% |
| Purdue | 1973 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 8.1 | 3.1 | 23.8 | 21.3 | +14.1 | +27.3% |
| Northwestern | 1972 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -6.0 | -13.0 | 18.0 | 29.9 | -16.1 | -45.5% |
| Northwestern | 1971 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | #20 | — | 10.1 | 8.1 | 25.1 | 17.7 | -7.6 | +3.6% |
| Northwestern | 1970 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 17.7 | 11.9 | 29.2 | 18.1 | +21.2 | +30.0% |
| Northwestern | 1969 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -3.5 | — | — | — | +5.7 | +20.0% |
| Northwestern | 1968 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10.0% | — | — | -9.2 | — | — | — | -7.1 | -20.0% |
| Northwestern | 1967 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -2.1 | — | — | — | -0.3 | -5.0% |
| Northwestern | 1966 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | -1.8 | — | — | — | -6.9 | -5.0% |
| Northwestern | 1965 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 5.1 | — | — | — | +1.6 | +6.7% |
| Northwestern | 1964 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 3.5 | — | — | — | — | — |
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