Top 25
5-5-1
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 50.0%
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Coach Profile
Jimmy Crowley
1929-1942 • Fordham, Michigan State, North Carolina Pre-Flight
3 schools coached, anchored by Fordham.
Jimmy Crowley coached 14 seasons, won 76.3%, and posted an average SRS of 10.2. Best season: 1942 North Carolina Pre-Flight. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 86-23-11
- Career win rate
- 76.3%
- Average SRS
- 10.2
- Peak SRS
- 17.6
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
- 14
- Career span
- 14 years
- Best finish
- #3
- Consistency
- 62.3
Primary school anchor
Fordham
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 79.5.
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
- 86-23-11
- Fordham record
- 56-13-7
- Full-season record
- 86-23-11
- Vs AP Top 10
- 1-4-1
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-1-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 1-1
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
120 countable games, 76.3% win rate.
9 countable seasons at Fordham.
14 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
6 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 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 28, 1942. 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.
Jimmy Crowley
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Jimmy Crowley: 1933 FordhamJimmy Crowley: 1942 North Carolina Pre-Flight
1929Actual season year • SRS range -5.8 to 17.61942
Active comparison point
Jimmy Crowley • 1942
1942 North Carolina Pre-Flight
Best seasonNew stop: North Carolina Pre-Flight8-2-1 • SRS 17.6 • SP Overall —
Win %
77.3%
YoY SRS
+3.8
SP Off / Def
— / —
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
1-4-1
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 25.0%
Top 5
0-1-1
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 25.0%
View ranked game results11
| 1942 Regular Week 6 | North Carolina Pre-Flight | Boston College | #3 | L6-7 |
| 1941 Regular Week 6 | Fordham | TCU | #19 | W28-14 |
| 1941 Regular Week 3 | Fordham | SMU | #20 | W16-10 |
| 1941 Postseason Week 1 | Fordham | Missouri | #7 | W2-0 |
| 1940 Postseason Week 1 | Fordham | Texas A&M | #6 | L12-13 |
| 1939 Regular Week 5 | Fordham | Tulane | #6 | L0-7 |
| 1939 Regular Week 4 | Fordham | Alabama | #20 | L6-7 |
| 1938 Regular Week 7 | Fordham | Pittsburgh | #7 | L13-24 |
| 1937 Regular Week 6 | Fordham | TCU | #14 | W7-6 |
| 1937 Regular Week 5 | Fordham | Pittsburgh | #1 | T0-0 |
| 1936 Regular Week 4 | Fordham | SMU | #19 | W7-0 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
North Carolina Pre-Flight
1942-1942 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS 17.6 • Win % 77.3%
Fordham
1933-1941 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS 12.1 • Win % 78.3%
Michigan State
1929-1932 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 4.1 • Win % 71.2%
- Longest tenure
- Fordham • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- North Carolina Pre-Flight • 17.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Fordham • 78.3%
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 edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jimmy Crowley
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.
North Carolina Pre-Flight
1942-1942 • 8-2-1
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 17.6Win % 77.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Fordham
1933-1941 • 56-13-7
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 12.1Win % 78.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.2 during vs 6.2 baseline
+0.0
Avg SRS
Higher is better
12.1 during vs 10.9 baseline
+1.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
66.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+66.7%
Michigan State
1929-1932 • 22-8-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (4 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 4.1Win % 71.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.5 during vs 3.3 baseline
+2.3
Avg SRS
Higher is better
4.1 during vs -6.4 baseline
+10.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— 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
North Carolina Pre-Flight 1942
8-2-1 • SRS 17.6
Biggest Improvement
Michigan State 1930
5-1-2 • 16.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Michigan State 1929
5-3 • SRS -5.8
Biggest Drop
Michigan State 1931
5-3-1 • -9.4 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| North Carolina Pre-Flight | 1942 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | — | — | 17.6 | — | — | — | +3.8 | -11.6% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1941 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 88.9% | — | #6 | 13.8 | — | — | — | +1.8 | +11.1% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1940 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | #12 | 12.0 | — | — | — | -1.0 | +2.8% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1939 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | #17 | 13.0 | — | — | — | -1.2 | -2.8% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1938 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 77.8% | — | #15 | 14.2 | — | — | — | -2.2 | -16.0% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1937 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 93.8% | — | #3 | 16.4 | — | — | — | +2.4 | +18.8% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1936 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | — | #15 | 14.0 | — | — | — | +3.2 | -2.8% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1935 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 77.8% | — | — | 10.8 | — | — | — | +3.4 | +15.3% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1934 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | 7.4 | — | — | — | -0.2 | -12.5% | Season summary |
| Fordham | 1933 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75.0% | — | — | 7.6 | — | — | — | -1.9 | -12.5% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1932 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.5% | — | — | 9.5 | — | — | — | +7.9 | +26.4% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1931 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 61.1% | — | — | 1.6 | — | — | — | -9.4 | -13.9% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1930 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 75.0% | — | — | 11.0 | — | — | — | +16.8 | +12.5% | Season summary |
| Michigan State | 1929 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 62.5% | — | — | -5.8 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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