Top 25
3-34
- Games
- 37
- Win rate
- 8.1%
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Coach Profile
Jim Wacker
1983-1996 • Minnesota, TCU
2 schools coached, anchored by TCU.
Jim Wacker coached 14 seasons, won 36.8%, and posted an average SRS of -3.5. Best season: 1987 TCU. The profile was offense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 56-97-2
- Career win rate
- 36.8%
- Average SRS
- -3.5
- Peak SRS
- 5.6
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
- —
- Consistency
- 61.2
Primary school anchor
TCU
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 49.4.
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.
Jim Wacker
EliteStrongAverageLean
Jim Wacker: 1992 Minnesota
1983Actual season year • SRS range -17.8 to 5.61996
Active comparison point
Jim Wacker • 1987
1987 TCU
Best seasonBiggest improvement5-6 • SRS 5.6 • SP Overall 8.3
Win %
45.5%
YoY SRS
+16.4
SP Off / Def
31.2 / 24.7
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
0-17
- Games
- 17
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-5
- Games
- 5
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results37
| 1996 Regular Week 14 | Minnesota | Iowa | #24 | L24-43 |
| 1996 Regular Week 11 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #2 | L0-45 |
| 1996 Regular Week 10 | Minnesota | Michigan | #10 | L10-44 |
| 1996 Regular Week 8 | Minnesota | Northwestern | #15 | L24-26 |
| 1996 Regular Week 5 | Minnesota | Syracuse | #23 | W35-33 |
| 1995 Regular Week 11 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #4 | L21-49 |
| 1995 Regular Week 10 | Minnesota | Michigan | #9 | L17-52 |
| 1995 Regular Week 8 | Minnesota | Northwestern | #14 | L17-27 |
| 1994 Regular Week 12 | Minnesota | Michigan | #19 | L22-38 |
| 1994 Regular Week 2 | Minnesota | Penn State | #9 | L3-56 |
| 1993 Regular Week 9 | Minnesota | Wisconsin | #15 | W28-21 |
| 1993 Regular Week 2 | Minnesota | Penn State | #17 | L20-38 |
| 1992 Regular Week 11 | Minnesota | Ohio State | #22 | L0-17 |
| 1992 Regular Week 9 | Minnesota | Michigan | #3 | L13-63 |
| 1992 Regular Week 4 | Minnesota | Colorado | #11 | L20-21 |
| 1991 Regular Week 11 | TCU | Texas A&M | #12 | L7-44 |
| 1991 Regular Week 9 | TCU | Baylor | #22 | L9-26 |
| 1990 Regular Week 13 | TCU | Texas | #6 | L10-38 |
| 1990 Regular Week 11 | TCU | Houston | #3 | L35-56 |
| 1989 Regular Week 11 | TCU | Texas Tech | #23 | L7-37 |
| 1989 Regular Week 10 | TCU | Houston | #17 | L10-55 |
| 1989 Regular Week 8 | TCU | Air Force | #19 | W27-9 |
| 1989 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Arkansas | #7 | L19-41 |
| 1989 Regular Week 3 | TCU | Texas A&M | #22 | L7-44 |
| 1988 Regular Week 3 | TCU | Georgia | #8 | L10-38 |
| 1987 Regular Week 13 | TCU | Texas A&M | #15 | L24-42 |
| 1987 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Arkansas | #20 | L10-20 |
| 1986 Regular Week 13 | TCU | Texas A&M | #10 | L10-74 |
| 1986 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Arkansas | #8 | L17-34 |
| 1985 Regular Week 13 | TCU | Texas A&M | #19 | L6-53 |
| 1985 Regular Week 9 | TCU | Baylor | #13 | L0-45 |
| 1985 Regular Week 6 | TCU | Arkansas | #10 | L0-41 |
| 1985 Regular Week 5 | TCU | SMU | #6 | L21-56 |
| 1984 Regular Week 13 | TCU | Texas | #6 | L23-44 |
| 1984 Regular Week 6 | TCU | SMU | #10 | L17-26 |
| 1983 Regular Week 12 | TCU | Texas | #2 | L14-20 |
| 1983 Regular Week 5 | TCU | SMU | #13 | L17-21 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Minnesota
1992-1996 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -1.7 • Win % 29.1%
TCU
1983-1991 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS -4.4 • Win % 41.0%
- Longest tenure
- TCU • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- Minnesota • -1.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- TCU • 41.0%
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.
Jim Wacker sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJim Wacker sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Wacker
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -5.2
- Percentile
- 41th pct
Mixed
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.
Minnesota
1992-1996 • 16-39
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -1.7Win % 29.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.2 during vs 4.4 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-1.7 during vs -3.9 baseline
+2.2
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-2.5 during vs -5.8 baseline
+3.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
TCU
1983-1991 • 40-58-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -4.4Win % 41.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.4 during vs 2.0 baseline
+2.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-4.4 during vs -2.2 baseline
-2.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.6 during vs -5.5 baseline
-1.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
TCU 1987
5-6 • SRS 5.6
Biggest Improvement
TCU 1987
5-6 • 16.4 SRS
Best Offensive Season
TCU 1984
8-4 • SP Off 36.5
Best Defensive Season
TCU 1987
5-6 • SP Def 24.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
TCU 1985
3-8 • SRS -17.8
Biggest Drop
TCU 1985
3-8 • -22.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Minnesota | 1996 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -2.0 | -1.6 | 31.2 | 33.2 | -1.9 | +9.1% |
| Minnesota | 1995 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -0.1 | 0.8 | 35.7 | 35.1 | -2.7 | 0.0% |
| Minnesota | 1994 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | 2.6 | 3.2 | 34.7 | 33.0 | +5.6 | -9.1% |
| Minnesota | 1993 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -3.0 | -6.3 | 32.2 | 36.9 | +3.0 | +18.2% |
| Minnesota | 1992 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -6.0 | -8.7 | 24.7 | 32.6 | -4.6 | -45.5% |
| TCU | 1991 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -1.4 | -1.1 | 29.9 | 31.4 | +1.0 | +18.2% |
| TCU | 1990 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -2.4 | -5.7 | 33.3 | 37.7 | +1.8 | +9.1% |
| TCU | 1989 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -4.2 | -6.7 | 23.8 | 30.0 | +0.8 | 0.0% |
| TCU | 1988 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -5.0 | -7.4 | 24.0 | 30.9 | -10.6 | -9.1% |
| TCU | 1987 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 5.6 | 8.3 | 31.2 | 24.7 | +16.4 | +18.2% |
| TCU | 1986 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -10.8 | -15.3 | 29.8 | 41.2 | +7.0 | 0.0% |
| TCU | 1985 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -17.8 | -22.2 | 20.8 | 39.7 | -22.7 | -39.4% |
| TCU | 1984 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 4.9 | 5.4 | 36.5 | 33.0 | +13.6 | +48.5% |
| TCU | 1983 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 18.2% | — | — | -8.7 | -14.9 | 16.4 | 30.2 | — | — |
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