Coach Profile
1979-1983 • Minnesota
One defining stop at Minnesota.
Joe Salem coached 5 seasons, won 35.4%, and posted an average SRS of -2.9. Best season: 1979 Minnesota. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stop defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Minnesota
Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 55.0.
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stop began.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Active comparison point
4-6-1 • SRS 7.4 • SP Overall 7.4
Win %
40.9%
YoY SRS
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SP Off / Def
32.6 / 27.3
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Minnesota
1979-1983 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -2.9 • Win % 35.4%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Joe Salem sets the reference point in overall strength.
Joe Salem sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Joe Salem
Lower end
Lower end
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
1979-1983 • 19-35-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.8 during vs 5.6 baseline
-1.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.9 during vs 0.9 baseline
-3.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.1 during vs -5.3 baseline
-0.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
Minnesota 1979
4-6-1 • SRS 7.4
Biggest Improvement
Minnesota 1981
6-5 • -2.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Minnesota 1979
4-6-1 • SP Off 32.6
Best Defensive Season
Minnesota 1980
5-6 • SP Def 26.1
Setbacks
Worst Season
Minnesota 1983
1-10 • SRS -19.2
Biggest Drop
Minnesota 1983
1-10 • -15.6 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Minnesota | 1983 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -19.2 | -22.2 | 29.2 | 44.8 | -15.6 | -18.2% |
| Minnesota | 1982 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -3.6 | -10.0 | 26.2 | 34.6 | -2.9 | -27.3% |
| Minnesota | 1981 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | -0.7 | -5.2 | 27.8 | 32.7 | -2.5 | +9.1% |
| Minnesota | 1980 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 1.8 | -0.7 | 25.1 | 26.1 | -5.6 | +4.5% |
| Minnesota | 1979 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 40.9% | — | — | 7.4 | 7.4 | 32.6 | 27.3 | — | — |
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