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KC Keeler

2023-2025Sam Houston, Temple

2 schools coached, anchored by Sam Houston.

KC Keeler coached 3 seasons, won 50.0%, and posted an average SRS of -8.8. Best season: 2024 Sam Houston. The profile was defense-first with a very steady week-to-week shape. 2 stops shaped the career arc.

Career record
12-12
Career win rate
50.0%
Average SRS
-8.8
Peak SRS
-6.2

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
3
Career span
3 years
Best finish
Consistency
90.6

Primary school anchor

Sam Houston

Defense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 21.5.

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.

KC Keeler
EliteStrongAverageLean
KC Keeler: 2025 Temple
2023Actual season year • SRS range -13.3 to -6.22025

Active comparison point

KC Keeler2024

Selected

2024 Sam Houston

Best seasonBiggest improvement

9-3 • SRS -6.2 • SP Overall -6.9

Win %

75.0%

YoY SRS

+7.1

SP Off / Def

19.0 / 23.8

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

Temple

2025-20251 seasons

Avg SRS -7.0 • Win %

Sam Houston

2023-20242 seasons

Avg SRS -9.8 • Win % 50.0%

Longest tenure
Sam Houston • 2 seasons
Best tenure
Temple • -7.0 SRS
Best tenure win rate
Sam Houston • 50.0%

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.

KC Keeler sets the reference point in overall strength.

Overall Strength

Decisive edge

KC Keeler sets the reference point in overall strength.

Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.

KC Keeler

Lower end

Raw avg SP Overall
-8.6
Percentile
31th 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.

Temple

2025-20250-0

Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).

Avg SRS -7.0Win %

Avg wins

Higher is better

0.0 during vs 2.3 baseline

-2.3

Avg SRS

Higher is better

-7.0 during vs -16.6 baseline

+9.6

Avg SP Overall

Higher is better

-5.1 during vs -18.3 baseline

+13.2

Ranked finish rate

Higher is better

0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline

+0.0%

Sam Houston

2023-202412-12

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

Avg SRS -9.8Win % 50.0%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.

Career highs and lows

High Points

Best Season

Sam Houston 2024

9-3SRS -6.2

Biggest Improvement

Sam Houston 2024

9-37.1 SRS

Best Offensive Season

Temple 2025

0-0SP Off 27.1

Best Defensive Season

Sam Houston 2024

9-3SP Def 23.8

Setbacks

Worst Season

Sam Houston 2023

3-9SRS -13.3

Biggest Drop

Temple 2025

0-0-0.8 SRS

Season-by-season results

Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.

Temple20250000-7.0-5.127.133.2-0.8
Sam Houston20241293075.0%-6.2-6.919.023.8+7.1+50.0%
Sam Houston20231239025.0%-13.3-13.816.028.8

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