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Lee Corso
1969-1984 • Indiana, Louisville, Northern Illinois
3 schools coached, anchored by Indiana.
Lee Corso coached 15 seasons, won 46.3%, and posted an average SRS of -1.3. Best season: 1979 Indiana. The profile was defense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 73-85-6
- Career win rate
- 46.3%
- Average SRS
- -1.3
- Peak SRS
- 10.7
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
- 15
- Career span
- 16 years
- Best finish
- #18
- Consistency
- 38.3
Primary school anchor
Indiana
Defense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 63.6.
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.
Lee Corso
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Lee Corso: 1973 IndianaLee Corso: 1984 Northern Illinois
1969Actual season year • SRS range -16.0 to 10.71984
Active comparison point
Lee Corso • 1979
1979 Indiana
Best season8-4 • SRS 10.7 • SP Overall 9.2
Win %
66.7%
YoY SRS
+8.7
SP Off / Def
32.6 / 25.0
Finish
#19
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
0-19
- Games
- 19
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-8
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results28
| 1982 Regular Week 3 | Indiana | USC | #19 | L7-28 |
| 1981 Regular Week 6 | Indiana | Iowa | #15 | L28-42 |
| 1981 Regular Week 5 | Indiana | Michigan | #8 | L17-38 |
| 1981 Regular Week 3 | Indiana | USC | #2 | L0-21 |
| 1980 Regular Week 10 | Indiana | Michigan | #12 | L0-35 |
| 1980 Regular Week 8 | Indiana | Ohio State | #10 | L17-27 |
| 1979 Regular Week 12 | Indiana | Purdue | #12 | L21-37 |
| 1979 Regular Week 9 | Indiana | Michigan | #10 | L21-27 |
| 1979 Regular Week 7 | Indiana | Ohio State | #6 | L6-47 |
| 1979 Postseason Week 1 | Indiana | BYU | #13 | W38-37 |
| 1978 Regular Week 13 | Indiana | Purdue | #17 | L7-20 |
| 1978 Regular Week 12 | Indiana | Ohio State | #16 | L18-21 |
| 1978 Regular Week 5 | Indiana | Nebraska | #10 | L17-69 |
| 1978 Regular Week 3 | Indiana | LSU | #10 | L17-24 |
| 1977 Regular Week 11 | Indiana | Ohio State | #4 | L7-35 |
| 1977 Regular Week 5 | Indiana | Nebraska | #9 | L13-31 |
| 1976 Regular Week 9 | Indiana | Ohio State | #8 | L7-47 |
| 1976 Regular Week 8 | Indiana | Michigan | #1 | L0-35 |
| 1976 Regular Week 3 | Indiana | Nebraska | #6 | L13-45 |
| 1975 Regular Week 9 | Indiana | Ohio State | #1 | L14-24 |
| 1975 Regular Week 8 | Indiana | Michigan | #7 | L7-55 |
| 1975 Regular Week 3 | Indiana | Nebraska | #6 | L0-45 |
| 1974 Regular Week 11 | Indiana | Michigan State | #15 | L10-19 |
| 1974 Regular Week 9 | Indiana | Michigan | #3 | L7-21 |
| 1974 Regular Week 7 | Indiana | Ohio State | #1 | L9-49 |
| 1974 Regular Week 3 | Indiana | Arizona | #17 | L20-35 |
| 1973 Regular Week 10 | Indiana | Michigan | #4 | L13-49 |
| 1973 Regular Week 8 | Indiana | Ohio State | #1 | L7-37 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Northern Illinois
1984-1984 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -15.2 • Win % 40.9%
Indiana
1973-1982 • 10 seasons
Avg SRS 0.6 • Win % 37.8%
Louisville
1969-1972 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -2.5 • Win % 70.2%
- Longest tenure
- Indiana • 10 seasons
- Best tenure
- Indiana • 0.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Louisville • 70.2%
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.
Lee Corso sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeLee Corso sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Lee Corso
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -2.4
- Percentile
- 48th pct
Mixed
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.
Northern Illinois
1984-1984 • 4-6-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -15.2Win % 40.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.0 during vs 6.0 baseline
-2.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-15.2 during vs -10.0 baseline
-5.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-11.3 during vs -2.7 baseline
-8.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Indiana
1973-1982 • 41-68-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 0.6Win % 37.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.1 during vs 3.8 baseline
+0.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
0.6 during vs -0.9 baseline
+1.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-4.8 during vs -16.3 baseline
+11.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
10.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+10.0%
Louisville
1969-1972 • 28-11-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.5Win % 70.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.0 during vs 4.6 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.5 during vs -10.5 baseline
+8.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
8.3 during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
25.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+25.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Indiana 1979
8-4 • SRS 10.7
Biggest Improvement
Louisville 1970
8-3-1 • 12.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Indiana 1979
8-4 • SP Off 32.6
Best Defensive Season
Louisville 1971
6-3-1 • SP Def 15.6
Setbacks
Worst Season
Louisville 1969
5-4-1 • SRS -16.0
Biggest Drop
Northern Illinois 1984
4-6-1 • -17.8 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Northern Illinois | 1984 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 40.9% | — | — | -15.2 | -11.3 | 12.8 | 23.2 | -17.8 | -4.5% |
| Indiana | 1982 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 2.6 | -1.2 | 24.5 | 25.8 | +11.0 | +18.2% |
| Indiana | 1981 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -8.4 | -15.6 | 16.6 | 31.4 | -11.9 | -27.3% |
| Indiana | 1980 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 3.5 | -3.7 | 25.5 | 29.0 | -7.2 | -12.1% |
| Indiana | 1979 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | #19 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 32.6 | 25.0 | +8.7 | +30.3% |
| Indiana | 1978 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | 2.0 | -3.4 | 27.4 | 30.7 | -2.2 | -13.6% |
| Indiana | 1977 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 4.2 | -0.3 | 23.7 | 24.0 | +6.0 | +4.5% |
| Indiana | 1976 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -1.8 | -7.4 | 17.2 | 24.3 | +4.6 | +22.7% |
| Indiana | 1975 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 22.7% | — | — | -6.4 | -14.3 | 12.6 | 25.7 | -3.8 | +13.6% |
| Indiana | 1974 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -2.6 | -7.4 | 22.0 | 29.0 | -4.4 | -9.1% |
| Indiana | 1973 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | 1.8 | -3.4 | 21.6 | 25.0 | -7.2 | -71.8% |
| Louisville | 1972 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 90.0% | — | #18 | 9.0 | 16.8 | 31.9 | 16.0 | +8.7 | +25.0% |
| Louisville | 1971 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 0.3 | 2.6 | 17.9 | 15.6 | +3.5 | -5.8% |
| Louisville | 1970 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 70.8% | — | — | -3.2 | 5.6 | 24.2 | 19.2 | +12.8 | +15.8% |
| Louisville | 1969 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | -16.0 | — | — | — | — | — |
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