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Jim Weaver

1933-1974Villanova, 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 stops 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.

Career Arc

Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stop began.

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 Weaver1936

Selected

1936 Wake Forest

Best seasonBiggest improvement

5-4 • SRS -0.3 • SP Overall

Win %

55.6%

YoY SRS

+9.7

SP Off / Def

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Finish

Unranked

Comparison context

Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.

Tenure map

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

Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger tenure

Villanova

1974-19741 seasons

Avg SRS -14.3 • Win % 37.5%

Wake Forest

1933-19364 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 edge

Jim 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 stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.

Villanova

1974-19743-5

Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-tenure seasons for this program.

Avg SRS -14.3Win % 37.5%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Wake Forest

1933-193610-23-1

Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure 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

5-4SRS -0.3

Biggest Improvement

Wake Forest 1936

5-49.7 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Villanova 1974

3-5SP Off 13.5

Best Defensive Season

Villanova 1974

3-5SP Def 23.8

Setbacks

Worst Season

Wake Forest 1933

0-5-1SRS -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.

Villanova1974835037.5%-14.3-11.113.523.8-14.0-18.1%
Wake Forest1936954055.6%-0.3+9.7+33.3%
Wake Forest1935927022.2%-10.0-1.9-7.8%
Wake Forest19341037030.0%-8.1+6.6+21.7%
Wake Forest193360518.3%-14.7

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