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- Win rate
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Coach Profile
Tom Harp
1961-1977 • Cornell, Duke, Indiana State
3 schools coached, anchored by Duke.
Tom Harp coached 13 seasons, won 42.9%, and posted an average SRS of -9.2. Best season: 1966 Duke. The profile was defense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 52-70-4
- Career win rate
- 42.9%
- Average SRS
- -9.2
- Peak SRS
- 0.8
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
- 13
- Career span
- 17 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 21.4
Primary school anchor
Duke
Defense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 36.8.
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.
Tom Harp
EliteStrongAverageLean
Tom Harp: 1966 DukeTom Harp: 1975 Indiana State
1961Actual season year • SRS range -30.4 to 0.81977
Active comparison point
Tom Harp • 1966
1966 Duke
Best seasonNew stop: Duke5-5 • SRS 0.8 • SP Overall —
Win %
50.0%
YoY SRS
+6.0
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
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results5
| 1970 Regular Week 6 | Duke | Ohio State | #1 | L10-34 |
| 1970 Regular Week 3 | Duke | Florida | #13 | L19-21 |
| 1967 Regular Week 8 | Duke | NC State | #4 | L7-28 |
| 1966 Regular Week 10 | Duke | Notre Dame | #1 | L0-64 |
| 1966 Regular Week 8 | Duke | Georgia Tech | #5 | L7-48 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Indiana State
1975-1977 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -13.2 • Win % 36.7%
Duke
1966-1970 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -2.3 • Win % 44.1%
Cornell
1961-1965 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS -13.7 • Win % 45.6%
- Longest tenure
- Duke • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Duke • -2.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Cornell • 45.6%
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.
Tom Harp sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTom Harp sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tom Harp
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -7.1
- Percentile
- 35th 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.
Indiana State
1975-1977 • 11-19
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -13.2Win % 36.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Duke
1966-1970 • 22-28-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -2.3Win % 44.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.4 during vs 6.0 baseline
-1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-2.3 during vs 9.6 baseline
-11.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
3.1 during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Cornell
1961-1965 • 19-23-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -13.7Win % 45.6%
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.8 during vs 3.4 baseline
+0.4
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-13.7 during vs -21.8 baseline
+8.1
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
Duke 1966
5-5 • SRS 0.8
Biggest Improvement
Cornell 1963
5-4 • 17.5 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Indiana State 1975
5-5 • SP Off 28.0
Best Defensive Season
Duke 1970
6-5 • SP Def 25.7
Setbacks
Worst Season
Cornell 1962
4-5 • SRS -30.4
Biggest Drop
Cornell 1962
4-5 • -13.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Indiana State | 1977 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -17.2 | -15.6 | 17.3 | 32.0 | -0.6 | 0.0% |
| Indiana State | 1976 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -16.6 | -15.6 | 14.2 | 29.0 | -10.7 | -20.0% |
| Indiana State | 1975 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -5.9 | -0.4 | 28.0 | 28.5 | -6.2 | -4.5% |
| Duke | 1970 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 0.3 | 3.1 | 27.8 | 25.7 | +11.3 | +19.6% |
| Duke | 1969 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | — | — | -11.0 | — | — | — | -8.6 | -5.0% |
| Duke | 1968 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -2.4 | — | — | — | -3.1 | 0.0% |
| Duke | 1967 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 0.7 | — | — | — | -0.1 | -10.0% |
| Duke | 1966 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | 0.8 | — | — | — | +6.0 | -5.6% |
| Cornell | 1965 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 55.6% | — | — | -5.2 | — | — | — | -2.1 | +16.7% |
| Cornell | 1964 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 38.9% | — | — | -3.1 | — | — | — | +9.8 | -16.7% |
| Cornell | 1963 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -12.9 | — | — | — | +17.5 | +11.1% |
| Cornell | 1962 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | -30.4 | — | — | — | -13.5 | +11.1% |
| Cornell | 1961 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -16.9 | — | — | — | — | — |
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