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0-8-2
- Games
- 10
- Win rate
- 10.0%
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Tom Stidham
1937-1945 • Marquette, Oklahoma
2 schools coached, anchored by Marquette.
Tom Stidham coached 9 seasons, won 60.4%, and posted an average SRS of 5.7. Best season: 1939 Oklahoma. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 47-30-5
- Career win rate
- 60.4%
- Average SRS
- 5.7
- Peak SRS
- 15.3
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
- 9
- Career span
- 9 years
- Best finish
- #4
- Consistency
- 60.0
Primary school anchor
Marquette
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 74.2.
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 Stidham
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Tom Stidham: 1941 Marquette
1937Actual season year • SRS range -7.4 to 15.31945
Active comparison point
Tom Stidham • 1939
1939 Oklahoma
Best season6-2-1 • SRS 15.3 • SP Overall —
Win %
72.2%
YoY SRS
+2.6
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#19
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
0-6
- Games
- 6
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results10
| 1945 Regular Week 3 | Marquette | Purdue | #4 | L13-14 |
| 1944 Regular Week 6 | Marquette | Purdue | #14 | L7-40 |
| 1944 Regular Week 5 | Marquette | Michigan | #8 | L0-14 |
| 1943 Regular Week 3 | Marquette | Purdue | #4 | L0-21 |
| 1942 Regular Week 4 | Marquette | Wisconsin | #2 | L7-35 |
| 1941 Regular Week 7 | Marquette | Ole Miss | #14 | L6-12 |
| 1941 Regular Week 6 | Marquette | Duquesne | #6 | L14-31 |
| 1939 Regular Week 3 | Oklahoma | SMU | #16 | T7-7 |
| 1938 Postseason Week 1 | Oklahoma | Tennessee | #2 | L0-17 |
| 1937 Regular Week 5 | Oklahoma | Nebraska | #11 | T0-0 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Marquette
1941-1945 • 5 seasons
Avg SRS 2.6 • Win % 47.7%
Oklahoma
1937-1940 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 9.6 • Win % 75.0%
- Longest tenure
- Marquette • 5 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oklahoma • 9.6 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Oklahoma • 75.0%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tom Stidham
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
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.
Marquette
1941-1945 • 20-22-2
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 2.6Win % 47.7%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Oklahoma
1937-1940 • 27-8-3
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 9.6Win % 75.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.8 during vs 4.0 baseline
+2.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.6 during vs 4.3 baseline
+5.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+50.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Oklahoma 1939
6-2-1 • SRS 15.3
Biggest Improvement
Marquette 1945
5-4-1 • 13.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Marquette 1944
1-7 • SRS -7.4
Biggest Drop
Oklahoma 1940
6-3 • -11.3 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Marquette | 1945 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 55.0% | — | — | 6.3 | — | — | — | +13.7 | +42.5% |
| Marquette | 1944 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 12.5% | — | — | -7.4 | — | — | — | -10.4 | -31.3% |
| Marquette | 1943 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 43.8% | — | — | 3.0 | — | — | — | -4.2 | -34.0% |
| Marquette | 1942 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 77.8% | — | — | 7.2 | — | — | — | +3.1 | +33.3% |
| Marquette | 1941 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 44.4% | — | — | 4.1 | — | — | — | +0.1 | -22.2% |
| Oklahoma | 1940 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 4.0 | — | — | — | -11.3 | -5.6% |
| Oklahoma | 1939 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 72.2% | — | #19 | 15.3 | — | — | — | +2.6 | -18.7% |
| Oklahoma | 1938 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 90.9% | — | #4 | 12.7 | — | — | — | +6.3 | +24.2% |
| Oklahoma | 1937 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 66.7% | — | — | 6.4 | — | — | — | — | — |
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