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Tom Harper
1972-1972 • Wake Forest
One defining program at Wake Forest.
Tom Harper coached 1 seasons, won 18.2%, and posted an average SRS of -17.7. Best season: 1972 Wake Forest. The profile was defense-first with limited volatility context. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 2-9
- Career win rate
- 18.2%
- Average SRS
- -17.7
- Peak SRS
- -17.7
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
- 1
- Career span
- 1 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- —
Primary school anchor
Wake Forest
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 6.4.
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.
Tom Harper
EliteStrongAverageLean
1971Actual season year • SRS range -18.7 to -16.71973
Active comparison point
Tom Harper • 1972
1972 Wake Forest
Best seasonWorst season2-9 • SRS -17.7 • SP Overall -18.7
Win %
18.2%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
14.3 / 32.5
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.
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- Games
- 1
- Win rate
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- Games
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| 1972 Regular Week 3 | Wake Forest | Tennessee | #5 | L6-45 |
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
1972-1972 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -17.7 • Win % 18.2%
- Longest tenure
- Wake Forest • 1 seasons
- Best tenure
- Wake Forest • -17.7 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Wake Forest • 18.2%
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.
Tom Harper sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTom Harper sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tom Harper
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -18.7
- Percentile
- 9th 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.
Wake Forest
1972-1972 • 2-9
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -17.7Win % 18.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.0 during vs 4.2 baseline
-2.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-17.7 during vs -1.8 baseline
-15.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-18.7 during vs 2.6 baseline
-21.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Wake Forest 1972
2-9 • SRS -17.7
Biggest Improvement
Unavailable
Best Offensive Season
Wake Forest 1972
2-9 • SP Off 14.3
Best Defensive Season
Wake Forest 1972
2-9 • SP Def 32.5
Setbacks
Worst Season
Wake Forest 1972
2-9 • SRS -17.7
Biggest Drop
Unavailable
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Wake Forest | 1972 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -17.7 | -18.7 | 14.3 | 32.5 | — | — |
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