Villanova
1974-1974 • 3-5
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -14.3Win % 37.5%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
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Coach Profile
Jim Weaver
1933-1974 • Villanova, Wake Forest
2 schools coached, anchored by Wake Forest.
Jim Weaver coached 5 seasons, won 32.1%, and posted an average SRS of -9.5. Best season: 1936 Wake Forest. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 13-28-1
- Career win rate
- 32.1%
- Average SRS
- -9.5
- Peak SRS
- -0.3
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
- 5
- Career span
- 42 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 71.8
Primary school anchor
Wake Forest
Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 34.2.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 13-28-1
- Wake Forest record
- 10-23-1
- Full-season record
- 10-23-1
- Partial-season record
- 3-5
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-0
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-0
- Vs NC State
- 2-1-1
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
42 countable games, 32.1% win rate.
4 countable seasons at Wake Forest.
4 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 games using AP ranking at game time.
NC State-Wake Forest games in this dataset.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 23, 1974. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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 Weaver
EliteStrongAverageLean
Jim Weaver: 1974 Villanova
1933Actual season year • SRS range -14.7 to -0.31974
Active comparison point
Jim Weaver • 1936
1936 Wake Forest
Best seasonBiggest improvement5-4 • SRS -0.3 • SP Overall —
Win %
55.6%
YoY SRS
+9.7
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.
No ranked opponents found for this poll and timing combination.
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Villanova
1974-1974 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -14.3 • Win % 37.5%
Wake Forest
1933-1936 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -8.3 • Win % 30.9%
- Longest tenure
- Wake Forest • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Wake Forest • -8.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Villanova • 37.5%
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 Weaver sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJim Weaver sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jim Weaver
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -11.1
- Percentile
- 25th 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
1933-1936 • 10-23-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -8.3Win % 30.9%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.5 during vs 4.0 baseline
-1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-8.3 during vs -14.1 baseline
+5.8
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
Wake Forest 1936
5-4 • SRS -0.3
Biggest Improvement
Wake Forest 1936
5-4 • 9.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Villanova 1974
3-5 • SP Off 13.5
Best Defensive Season
Villanova 1974
3-5 • SP Def 23.8
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Wake Forest 1933
0-5-1 • SRS -14.7
Biggest Drop
Villanova 1974
3-5 • -14.0 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Villanova | 1974 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 37.5% | — | — | -14.3 | -11.1 | 13.5 | 23.8 | -14.0 | -18.1% | Partial season |
| Wake Forest | 1936 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | -0.3 | — | — | — | +9.7 | +33.3% | Season summary |
| Wake Forest | 1935 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | -10.0 | — | — | — | -1.9 | -7.8% | Season summary |
| Wake Forest | 1934 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | -8.1 | — | — | — | +6.6 | +21.7% | Season summary |
| Wake Forest | 1933 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8.3% | — | — | -14.7 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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Popular comparisons are fan-facing matchups. Statistical comps are matched by style, strength band, volatility band, peak range, and career length.
Statistical comps
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avg SRS within 0.9 • similar peak range
Avg SRS -10.4 • Peak SRS 0.2 • 7 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 7.9
Open profile →Edward Doherty
same defense-first identity • volatility within 1.3
Avg SRS -15.6 • Peak SRS 3.6 • 14 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.6
Open profile →Bob Blackman
same defense-first identity
Avg SRS -6.1 • Peak SRS 10.5 • 29 seasons
Best finish #14 • Volatility 9.6
Open profile →Jack Curtice
volatility within 1.2
Avg SRS -6.0 • Peak SRS 3.5 • 19 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.4
Open profile →Elliot Uzelac
same defense-first identity • avg SRS within 1.1
Avg SRS -8.3 • Peak SRS -1.7 • 10 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 4.4
Open profile →Watson Brown
avg SRS within 1.4 • volatility within 1.1
Avg SRS -8.1 • Peak SRS 0.0 • 19 seasons
Best finish Unranked • Volatility 6.3
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