Coach Profile
1978-2003 • Arizona, Illinois, Texas, Wake Forest
4 schools coached, anchored by Texas.
John Mackovic coached 16 seasons, won 53.6%, and posted an average SRS of 3.4. Best season: 1996 Texas. The profile was offense-first with a highly volatile profile. 4 stops shaped the career arc.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Texas
Offense-First profile with 4 program stops and a peak score of 76.4.
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.
Active comparison point
8-5 • SRS 16.2 • SP Overall 19.3
Win %
61.5%
YoY SRS
+5.2
SP Off / Def
43.1 / 27.3
Finish
#23
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Each stop expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Arizona
2001-2003 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS -6.2 • Win % 35.7%
Texas
1992-1997 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 5.7 • Win % 59.2%
Illinois
1988-1991 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 8.2 • Win % 64.9%
Wake Forest
1978-1980 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 2.0 • Win % 41.2%
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.
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
John Mackovic sets the reference point in overall strength.
John Mackovic sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
John Mackovic
Strong
Strong
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
2001-2003 • 10-18
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
3.3 during vs 7.0 baseline
-3.7
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-6.2 during vs 7.9 baseline
-14.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-4.5 during vs 10.3 baseline
-14.8
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
1992-1997 • 41-28-2
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.8 during vs 6.2 baseline
+0.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.7 during vs 6.8 baseline
-1.1
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
8.1 during vs 9.7 baseline
-1.6
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+30.0%
1988-1991 • 30-16-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
7.5 during vs 6.0 baseline
+1.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
8.2 during vs 4.9 baseline
+3.3
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
9.9 during vs 5.4 baseline
+4.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
50.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
+30.0%
1978-1980 • 14-20
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
4.7 during vs 2.2 baseline
+2.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
2.0 during vs -8.0 baseline
+10.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
4.1 during vs -13.9 baseline
+18.0
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
High Points
Best Season
Texas 1996
8-5 • SRS 16.2
Biggest Improvement
Illinois 1989
10-2 • 13.7 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Texas 1996
8-5 • SP Off 43.1
Best Defensive Season
Illinois 1989
10-2 • SP Def 15.9
Setbacks
Worst Season
Arizona 2003
1-4 • SRS -10.9
Biggest Drop
Texas 1997
4-7 • -22.0 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Arizona | 2003 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -10.9 | -7.4 | 28.0 | 34.3 | -7.4 | -13.3% |
| Arizona | 2002 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | -3.5 | -2.7 | 26.3 | 29.0 | +0.7 | -12.1% |
| Arizona | 2001 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -4.2 | -3.4 | 37.4 | 39.2 | +1.6 | +9.1% |
| Texas | 1997 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 36.4% | #12 | — | -5.8 | -6.7 | 33.2 | 38.2 | -22.0 | -25.2% |
| Texas | 1996 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | #8 | #23 | 16.2 | 19.3 | 43.1 | 27.3 | +5.2 | -19.2% |
| Texas | 1995 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 80.8% | #18 | #14 | 11.0 | 13.7 | 36.2 | 24.1 | +4.2 | +14.1% |
| Texas | 1994 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #18 | #25 | 6.8 | 10.7 | 38.1 | 29.4 | +1.4 | +16.7% |
| Texas | 1993 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 50.0% | — | — | 5.4 | 7.4 | 33.3 | 28.0 | +5.0 | -4.5% |
| Texas | 1992 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | #25 | — | 0.4 | 4.4 | 33.8 | 31.2 | -8.1 | 0.0% |
| Illinois | 1991 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.5% | — | — | 8.5 | 9.4 | 26.8 | 18.3 | +0.1 | -12.1% |
| Illinois | 1990 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | #11 | #25 | 8.4 | 10.1 | 29.8 | 20.9 | -6.4 | -16.7% |
| Illinois | 1989 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 83.3% | #22 | #10 | 14.8 | 20.4 | 35.3 | 15.9 | +13.7 | +29.2% |
| Illinois | 1988 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 54.2% | — | — | 1.1 | -0.3 | 24.5 | 25.0 | -6.5 | +8.7% |
| Wake Forest | 1980 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 7.6 | 10.5 | 30.1 | 20.9 | +1.8 | -21.2% |
| Wake Forest | 1979 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 5.8 | 11.3 | 31.2 | 21.5 | +13.3 | +57.6% |
| Wake Forest | 1978 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 9.1% | — | — | -7.5 | -9.5 | 16.2 | 24.8 | — | — |
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