Top 25
0-20
- Games
- 20
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Coach Profile
Jerry Berndt
1981-1992 • Pennsylvania, Rice, Temple
3 schools coached, anchored by Temple.
Jerry Berndt coached 8 seasons, won 20.7%, and posted an average SRS of -14.9. Best season: 1990 Temple. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 18-69
- Career win rate
- 20.7%
- Average SRS
- -14.9
- Peak SRS
- -0.5
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
- 12 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 32.2
Primary school anchor
Temple
Offense-First profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 33.5.
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.
Jerry Berndt
EliteStrongAverageLean
Jerry Berndt: 1986 RiceJerry Berndt: 1989 Temple
1981Actual season year • SRS range -29.0 to -0.51992
Active comparison point
Jerry Berndt • 1990
1990 Temple
Best seasonBiggest improvement7-4 • SRS -0.5 • SP Overall 0.0
Win %
63.6%
YoY SRS
+16.1
SP Off / Def
30.5 / 31.2
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.
Top 10
0-9
- Games
- 9
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results20
| 1992 Regular Week 12 | Temple | Miami | #1 | L0-48 |
| 1992 Regular Week 10 | Temple | Boston College | #11 | L6-45 |
| 1992 Regular Week 9 | Temple | Syracuse | #12 | L7-38 |
| 1992 Regular Week 3 | Temple | Penn State | #10 | L8-49 |
| 1991 Regular Week 10 | Temple | Syracuse | #18 | L6-27 |
| 1991 Regular Week 6 | Temple | Penn State | #12 | L7-24 |
| 1991 Regular Week 4 | Temple | Clemson | #8 | L7-37 |
| 1991 Regular Week 3 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #24 | L7-26 |
| 1991 Regular Week 2 | Temple | Alabama | #20 | L3-41 |
| 1990 Regular Week 11 | Temple | Tennessee | #9 | L20-41 |
| 1989 Regular Week 6 | Temple | Pittsburgh | #8 | L3-27 |
| 1989 Regular Week 5 | Temple | Houston | #14 | L7-65 |
| 1989 Regular Week 2 | Temple | Syracuse | #14 | L3-43 |
| 1988 Regular Week 14 | Rice | Houston | #14 | L14-45 |
| 1988 Regular Week 11 | Rice | Notre Dame | #1 | L11-54 |
| 1988 Regular Week 10 | Rice | Arkansas | #11 | L14-21 |
| 1987 Regular Week 4 | Rice | LSU | #4 | L16-49 |
| 1986 Regular Week 12 | Rice | Baylor | #17 | L17-23 |
| 1986 Regular Week 10 | Rice | Arkansas | #10 | L14-45 |
| 1986 Regular Week 9 | Rice | Texas A&M | #10 | L10-45 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Temple
1989-1992 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS -13.6 • Win % 25.0%
Rice
1986-1988 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -11.9 • Win % 18.2%
Pennsylvania
1981-1981 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -29.0 • Win % 10.0%
- Longest tenure
- Temple • 4 seasons
- Best tenure
- Rice • -11.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Temple • 25.0%
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.
Jerry Berndt sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeJerry Berndt sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Jerry Berndt
Lower end
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -15.1
- Percentile
- 15th 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.
Temple
1989-1992 • 11-33
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -13.6Win % 25.0%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.8 during vs 4.6 baseline
-1.9
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-13.6 during vs 0.7 baseline
-14.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-14.3 during vs -0.3 baseline
-13.9
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Rice
1986-1988 • 6-27
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -11.9Win % 18.2%
Avg wins
Higher is better
2.0 during vs 1.8 baseline
+0.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-11.9 during vs -13.2 baseline
+1.4
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-13.8 during vs -17.1 baseline
+3.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Pennsylvania
1981-1981 • 1-9
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -29.0Win % 10.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Temple 1990
7-4 • SRS -0.5
Biggest Improvement
Temple 1990
7-4 • 16.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Temple 1990
7-4 • SP Off 30.5
Best Defensive Season
Temple 1990
7-4 • SP Def 31.2
Setbacks
Worst Season
Pennsylvania 1981
1-9 • SRS -29.0
Biggest Drop
Temple 1991
2-9 • -14.7 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Temple | 1992 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -22.1 | -23.5 | 18.3 | 38.9 | -6.9 | -9.1% |
| Temple | 1991 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -15.2 | -16.7 | 15.7 | 31.9 | -14.7 | -45.5% |
| Temple | 1990 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | -0.5 | 0.0 | 30.5 | 31.2 | +16.1 | +54.5% |
| Temple | 1989 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -16.6 | -16.8 | 21.6 | 36.3 | -7.8 | +9.1% |
| Rice | 1988 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — | -8.8 | -10.6 | 24.4 | 33.6 | +5.1 | -18.2% |
| Rice | 1987 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 18.2% | — | — | -13.9 | -16.3 | 29.2 | 41.8 | -1.0 | -18.2% |
| Rice | 1986 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | — | — | -12.9 | -14.5 | 23.6 | 35.3 | +16.1 | +26.4% |
| Pennsylvania | 1981 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 10.0% | — | — | -29.0 | -22.2 | 16.3 | 36.3 | — | — |
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