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Roy Lester

1969-1971 • Maryland

One defining program at Maryland.

Roy Lester's coaching record is 7-25, highlighted by seasons at Maryland from 1969 to 1971.

Roy Lester coached 3 seasons, won 21.9%, and posted an average SRS of -11.0. Best season: 1971 Maryland. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 7-25
Career win rate: 21.9%
Average SRS: -11.0
Peak SRS: -4.5

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: 78.6

Primary school anchor

Maryland

Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 25.1.

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Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.

Compare Roy Lester

Overall record: 7-25
Maryland record: 7-25
Full-season record: 7-25
Vs AP Top 25: 0-4
Vs AP Top 10: 0-2
Vs AP Top 5: 0-1
Vs Virginia: 2-1
Postseason / bowl record: 0-0
CFP record: 0-0
National titles: 0

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 20, 1971. 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.

Roy Lester

EliteStrongAverageLean

1969Actual season year • SRS range -14.9 to -4.51971

Active comparison point

Roy Lester • 1971

Selected

1971 Maryland

Best seasonBiggest improvement

2-9 • SRS -4.5 • SP Overall -9.0

Win %

18.2%

YoY SRS

+9.0

SP Off / Def

24.4 / 32.4

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

AP Top 25Coaches Poll

Ranking timing

Time of gameSeason final

Top 25

0-4

Games: 4
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 10

0-2

Games: 2
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 5

0-1

Games: 1
Win rate: 0.0%

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1971 Regular Week 9	Maryland	Penn State	#6	L27-63
1970 Regular Week 11	Maryland	Penn State	#20	L0-34
1970 Regular Week 5	Maryland	North Carolina	#18	L20-53
1969 Regular Week 10	Maryland	Penn State	#4	L0-48

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Maryland

1969-1971 • 3 seasons

Avg SRS -11.0 • Win % 21.9%

Longest tenure: Maryland • 3 seasons
Best tenure: Maryland • -11.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Maryland • 21.9%

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.

Roy Lester sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Roy Lester sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Roy Lester

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall: -12.0
Percentile: 22th pct

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.

Maryland

1969-1971 • 7-25

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

Avg SRS -11.0Win % 21.9%

Avg wins

Higher is better

2.3 during vs 3.0 baseline

-0.7

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-11.0 during vs -2.6 baseline

-8.4

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-12.0 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

Maryland 1971

2-9 • SRS -4.5

Biggest Improvement

Maryland 1971

2-9 • 9.0 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Maryland 1971

2-9 • SP Off 24.4

Best Defensive Season

Maryland 1970

2-9 • SP Def 26.1

Setbacks

Lowest SRS Season

Maryland 1969

3-7 • SRS -14.9

Biggest Drop

Maryland 1970

2-9 • 1.4 SRS

Season-by-season results

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


Maryland	1971	11	2	9	18.2%	—	—	-4.5	-9.0	24.4	32.4	+9.0	0.0%	Season summary
Maryland	1970	11	2	9	18.2%	—	—	-13.5	-15.0	11.6	26.1	+1.4	-11.8%	Season summary
Maryland	1969	10	3	7	30.0%	—	—	-14.9	—	—	—	—	—	Season summary

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