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Coach Profile

Jim Caldwell

1993-2000 • Wake Forest

One defining program at Wake Forest.

Jim Caldwell coached 8 seasons, won 29.2%, and posted an average SRS of -8.6. Best season: 1999 Wake Forest. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. One primary stint defined the run.

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Career record: 26-63
Career win rate: 29.2%
Average SRS: -8.6
Peak SRS: 6.5

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: 8
Career span: 8 years
Best finish: —
Consistency: 26.9

Primary school anchor

Wake Forest

Offense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 52.5.

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 Caldwell

EliteStrongAverageLean

1993Actual season year • SRS range -19.0 to 6.52000

Active comparison point

Jim Caldwell • 1999

Selected

1999 Wake Forest

Best season

7-5 • SRS 6.5 • SP Overall 4.0

Win %

58.3%

YoY SRS

+10.8

SP Off / Def

25.5 / 22.2

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

4-19

Games: 23
Win rate: 17.4%

Top 10

0-9

Games: 9
Win rate: 0.0%

Top 5

0-9

Games: 9
Win rate: 0.0%

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2000 Regular Week 12	Wake Forest	Florida State	#3	L6-35
2000 Regular Week 4	Wake Forest	Clemson	#16	L7-55
1999 Regular Week 13	Wake Forest	Georgia Tech	#14	W26-23
1999 Regular Week 8	Wake Forest	Florida State	#1	L10-33
1999 Regular Week 5	Wake Forest	NC State	#25	W31-7
1998 Regular Week 13	Wake Forest	Georgia Tech	#17	L35-63
1998 Regular Week 12	Wake Forest	Florida State	#5	L7-24
1998 Regular Week 10	Wake Forest	Virginia	#12	L17-38
1997 Regular Week 13	Wake Forest	Florida State	#2	L7-58
1997 Regular Week 8	Wake Forest	North Carolina	#5	L12-30
1997 Regular Week 3	Wake Forest	Northwestern	#21	W27-20
1996 Regular Week 12	Wake Forest	Florida State	#3	L7-44
1996 Regular Week 7	Wake Forest	North Carolina	#15	L6-45
1996 Regular Week 5	Wake Forest	Virginia	#20	L7-42
1996 Regular Week 3	Wake Forest	Northwestern	#13	W28-27
1995 Regular Week 8	Wake Forest	Florida State	#1	L13-72
1995 Regular Week 6	Wake Forest	Virginia	#11	L17-35
1994 Regular Week 9	Wake Forest	Duke	#20	L26-51
1994 Regular Week 4	Wake Forest	Florida State	#3	L14-56
1993 Regular Week 11	Wake Forest	Virginia	#21	L9-21
1993 Regular Week 10	Wake Forest	Florida State	#1	L0-54
1993 Regular Week 7	Wake Forest	North Carolina	#15	L35-45
1993 Regular Week 3	Wake Forest	NC State	#18	L16-34

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint

Wake Forest

1993-2000 • 8 seasons

Avg SRS -8.6 • Win % 29.2%

Longest tenure: Wake Forest • 8 seasons
Best tenure: Wake Forest • -8.6 SRS
Best tenure win rate: Wake Forest • 29.2%

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 Caldwell sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

Jim Caldwell sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

Jim Caldwell

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall: -11.7
Percentile: 23th 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.

Wake Forest

1993-2000 • 26-63

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

Avg SRS -8.6Win % 29.2%

Avg wins

Higher is better

3.3 during vs 4.4 baseline

-1.1

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-8.6 during vs -3.0 baseline

-5.6

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-11.7 during vs -6.0 baseline

-5.7

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline

-20.0%

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Wake Forest 1999

7-5 • SRS 6.5

Biggest Improvement

Wake Forest 1997

5-6 • 17.6 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Wake Forest 1997

5-6 • SP Off 29.5

Best Defensive Season

Wake Forest 1999

7-5 • SP Def 22.2

Setbacks

Worst Season

Wake Forest 1994

3-8 • SRS -19.0

Biggest Drop

Wake Forest 2000

2-9 • -21.7 SRS

Season-by-season results

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


Wake Forest	2000	11	2	9	18.2%	—	—	-15.2	-18.8	22.3	38.6	-21.7	-40.2%
Wake Forest	1999	12	7	5	58.3%	—	—	6.5	4.0	25.5	22.2	+10.8	+31.1%
Wake Forest	1998	11	3	8	27.3%	—	—	-4.3	-5.3	29.0	33.9	-5.7	-18.2%
Wake Forest	1997	11	5	6	45.5%	—	—	1.4	-0.3	29.5	30.0	+17.6	+18.2%
Wake Forest	1996	11	3	8	27.3%	—	—	-16.2	-18.9	20.7	37.4	-5.0	+18.2%
Wake Forest	1995	11	1	10	9.1%	—	—	-11.2	-15.9	23.7	37.1	+7.8	-18.2%
Wake Forest	1994	11	3	8	27.3%	—	—	-19.0	-21.3	20.2	38.8	-8.3	+9.1%
Wake Forest	1993	11	2	9	18.2%	—	—	-10.7	-17.0	22.3	37.1	—	—

Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.5

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