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Don Brown

2022-2024Massachusetts

One defining program at Massachusetts.

Don Brown coached 3 seasons, won 17.6%, and posted an average SRS of -18.8. Best season: 2023 Massachusetts. The profile was balanced with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.

Career record
6-28
Career win rate
17.6%
Average SRS
-18.8
Peak SRS
-15.2

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
3 years
Best finish
Consistency
87.0

Primary school anchor

Massachusetts

Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 8.5.

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.

Don Brown
EliteStrongAverageLean
2022Actual season year • SRS range -23.8 to -15.22024

Active comparison point

Don Brown2023

Selected

2023 Massachusetts

Best seasonBiggest improvement

3-9 • SRS -15.2 • SP Overall -17.5

Win %

25.0%

YoY SRS

+8.6

SP Off / Def

20.8 / 36.2

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

0-4

Games
4
Win rate
0.0%

Top 10

0-2

Games
2
Win rate
0.0%

Top 5

0-0

Games
0
Win rate
View ranked game results4

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Massachusetts

2022-20243 seasons

Avg SRS -18.8 • Win % 17.6%

Longest tenure
Massachusetts • 3 seasons
Best tenure
Massachusetts • -18.8 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Massachusetts • 17.6%

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.

Don Brown sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Don Brown sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Don Brown

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall
-23.2
Percentile
4th 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.

Massachusetts

2022-20246-28

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

Avg SRS -18.8Win % 17.6%

Avg wins

Higher is better

2.0 during vs 1.9 baseline

+0.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-18.8 during vs -23.0 baseline

+4.2

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-23.2 during vs -24.2 baseline

+1.0

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Massachusetts 2023

3-9SRS -15.2

Biggest Improvement

Massachusetts 2023

3-98.6 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Massachusetts 2023

3-9SP Off 20.8

Best Defensive Season

Massachusetts 2023

3-9SP Def 36.2

Setbacks

Worst Season

Massachusetts 2022

1-11SRS -23.8

Biggest Drop

Massachusetts 2024

2-8-2.2 SRS

Season-by-season results

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

Massachusetts20241028020.0%-17.4-21.920.540.3-2.2-5.0%
Massachusetts20231239025.0%-15.2-17.520.836.2+8.6+16.7%
Massachusetts20221211108.3%-23.8-30.37.536.4

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