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Ed McKeever

1944-1947Cornell, Notre Dame, San Francisco

3 schools coached, anchored by Notre Dame.

Ed McKeever coached 3 seasons, won 70.7%, and posted an average SRS of 13.0. Best season: 1944 Notre Dame. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.

Career record
20-8-1
Career win rate
70.7%
Average SRS
13.0
Peak SRS
24.2

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
3
Career span
4 years
Best finish
#9
Consistency
30.6

Primary school anchor

Notre Dame

Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 91.5.

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.

Ed McKeever
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Ed McKeever: 1946 CornellEd McKeever: 1947 San Francisco
1944Actual season year • SRS range 6.1 to 24.21947

Active comparison point

Ed McKeever1944

Selected

1944 Notre Dame

Best season

8-2 • SRS 24.2 • SP Overall

Win %

80.0%

YoY SRS

SP Off / Def

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Finish

#9

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

0-1-1

Games
2
Win rate
25.0%

Top 10

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-1

Games
1
Win rate
0.0%
View ranked game results2
1946 Regular Week 6CornellYale#18T6-6
1946 Regular Week 4CornellArmy#1L21-46

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

San Francisco

1947-19471 seasons

Avg SRS 6.1 • Win % 70.0%

Cornell

1946-19461 seasons

Avg SRS 8.6 • Win % 61.1%

Notre Dame

1944-19441 seasons

Avg SRS 24.2 • Win % 80.0%

Longest tenure
San Francisco • 1 seasons
Best tenure
Notre Dame • 24.2 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Notre Dame • 80.0%

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.

Not enough data to compare.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Not enough data to compare.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Ed McKeever

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.

San Francisco

1947-19477-3

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 6.1Win % 70.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Cornell

1946-19465-3-1

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.

Avg SRS 8.6Win % 61.1%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Notre Dame

1944-19448-2

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

Avg SRS 24.2Win % 80.0%

Avg wins

Higher is better

8.0 during vs 7.6 baseline

+0.4

Avg SRS

Higher is better

24.2 during vs 17.8 baseline

+6.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

during vs baseline

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

100.0% during vs 80.0% baseline

+20.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Notre Dame 1944

8-2SRS 24.2

Biggest Improvement

San Francisco 1947

7-3-2.5 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Unavailable

Best Defensive Season

Unavailable

Setbacks

Worst Season

San Francisco 1947

7-3SRS 6.1

Biggest Drop

Cornell 1946

5-3-1-15.6 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

San Francisco19471073070.0%6.1-2.5+8.9%
Cornell1946953161.1%8.6-15.6-18.9%
Notre Dame19441082080.0%#924.2

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