Top 25
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Coach Profile
Ron Cooper
1993-1997 • Eastern Michigan, Louisville
2 schools coached, anchored by Louisville.
Ron Cooper's coaching record is 22-33, highlighted by seasons at Louisville from 1993 to 1997.
Ron Cooper coached 5 seasons, won 40.0%, and posted an average SRS of -10.0. Best season: 1995 Louisville. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 22-33
- Career win rate
- 40.0%
- Average SRS
- -10.0
- Peak SRS
- 3.6
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
- 5
- Career span
- 5 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 12.8
Primary school anchor
Louisville
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 43.0.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 22-33
- Louisville record
- 13-20
- Full-season record
- 22-33
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1
- Vs Cincinnati
- 0-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
55 countable games, 40.0% win rate.
3 countable seasons at Louisville.
5 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
1 games using AP ranking at game time.
Cincinnati-Louisville games in this dataset.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 15, 1997. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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.
Ron Cooper
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Ron Cooper: 1995 Louisville
1993Actual season year • SRS range -22.9 to 3.61997
Active comparison point
Ron Cooper • 1995
1995 Louisville
Best seasonBiggest improvementNew stop: Louisville7-4 • SRS 3.6 • SP Overall 2.2
Win %
63.6%
YoY SRS
+17.4
SP Off / Def
25.5 / 23.8
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
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-1
- Games
- 1
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results4
| 1997 Regular Week 5 | Louisville | Penn State | #1 | L21-57 |
| 1996 Regular Week 12 | Louisville | North Carolina | #8 | L10-28 |
| 1996 Regular Week 3 | Louisville | Penn State | #7 | L7-24 |
| 1994 Regular Week 3 | Eastern Michigan | Wisconsin | #10 | L0-56 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Louisville
1995-1997 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -4.5 • Win % 39.4%
Eastern Michigan
1993-1994 • 2 seasons
Avg SRS -18.4 • Win % 40.9%
- Longest tenure
- Louisville • 3 seasons
- Best tenure
- Louisville • -4.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Eastern Michigan • 40.9%
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.
Ron Cooper sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeRon Cooper sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Ron Cooper
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -8.7
- Percentile
- 31th pct
Lower end
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.
Louisville
1995-1997 • 13-20
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.5Win % 39.4%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.3 during vs 6.4 baseline
-2.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.5 during vs -0.5 baseline
-4.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.9 during vs 1.0 baseline
-7.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 40.0% baseline
-40.0%
Eastern Michigan
1993-1994 • 9-13
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -18.4Win % 40.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.5 during vs 3.7 baseline
+0.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-18.4 during vs -18.3 baseline
-0.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-11.3 during vs -12.1 baseline
+0.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Louisville 1995
7-4 • SRS 3.6
Biggest Improvement
Louisville 1995
7-4 • 17.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Eastern Michigan 1994
5-6 • SP Off 27.2
Best Defensive Season
Louisville 1996
5-6 • SP Def 21.5
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Eastern Michigan 1993
4-7 • SRS -22.9
Biggest Drop
Louisville 1997
1-10 • -16.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Louisville | 1997 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -16.7 | -21.7 | 26.8 | 42.9 | -16.3 | -36.4% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 1996 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -0.4 | -1.2 | 20.2 | 21.5 | -4.0 | -18.2% | Season summary |
| Louisville | 1995 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 3.6 | 2.2 | 25.5 | 23.8 | +17.4 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 1994 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -13.8 | -5.4 | 27.2 | 32.5 | +9.1 | +9.1% | Season summary |
| Eastern Michigan | 1993 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -22.9 | -17.2 | 12.5 | 29.4 | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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Best finish Unranked • Volatility 10.5
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Avg SRS -10.1 • Peak SRS -3.1 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 9.0
Open profile →Larry Lacewell
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.1
Avg SRS -11.1 • Peak SRS -0.5 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 10.9
Open profile →Ed Chlebek
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.9
Avg SRS -11.0 • Peak SRS 6.4 • 7 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 11.1
Open profile →Bryant Vincent
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 0.3
Avg SRS -10.3 • Peak SRS -1.1 • 3 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.7
Open profile →Nunzio Campanile
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.5
Avg SRS -8.6 • Peak SRS -0.4 • 2 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 8.2
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