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4-25-3
- Games
- 32
- Win rate
- 17.2%
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Len Casanova
1946-1966 • Oregon, Pittsburgh, Santa Clara
3 schools coached, anchored by Oregon.
Len Casanova coached 21 seasons, won 52.4%, and posted an average SRS of 4.7. Best season: 1949 Santa Clara. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. 3 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 104-94-11
- Career win rate
- 52.4%
- Average SRS
- 4.7
- Peak SRS
- 21.1
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
- 21
- Career span
- 21 years
- Best finish
- #15
- Consistency
- 25.8
Primary school anchor
Oregon
Balanced profile with 3 program stops and a peak score of 86.9.
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.
Len Casanova
EliteStrongAverageLean
Len Casanova: 1950 PittsburghLen Casanova: 1951 Oregon
1946Actual season year • SRS range -12.6 to 21.11966
Active comparison point
Len Casanova • 1949
1949 Santa Clara
Best season8-2-1 • SRS 21.1 • SP Overall —
Win %
77.3%
YoY SRS
+11.3
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#15
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
0-16-1
- Games
- 17
- Win rate
- 2.9%
Top 5
0-8
- Games
- 8
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results32
| 1962 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | Washington | #9 | T21-21 |
| 1962 Regular Week 2 | Oregon | Texas | #3 | L13-25 |
| 1961 Regular Week 10 | Oregon | Ohio State | #2 | L12-22 |
| 1960 Regular Week 8 | Oregon | Washington | #7 | L6-7 |
| 1960 Postseason Week 1 | Oregon | Penn State | #16 | L12-41 |
| 1959 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | Washington | #17 | L12-13 |
| 1958 Regular Week 4 | Oregon | Oklahoma | #2 | L0-6 |
| 1957 Regular Week 11 | Oregon | Oregon State | #19 | L7-10 |
| 1957 Postseason Week 1 | Oregon | Ohio State | #2 | L7-10 |
| 1956 Regular Week 11 | Oregon | Oregon State | #11 | T14-14 |
| 1956 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | Pittsburgh | #11 | L7-14 |
| 1955 Regular Week 10 | Oregon | Oregon State | #19 | W28-0 |
| 1955 Regular Week 3 | Oregon | Washington | #19 | L7-19 |
| 1955 Regular Week 2 | Oregon | USC | #9 | L15-42 |
| 1954 Regular Week 8 | Oregon | UCLA | #1 | L0-41 |
| 1953 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | USC | #17 | W13-7 |
| 1953 Regular Week 3 | Oregon | UCLA | #6 | L0-12 |
| 1952 Regular Week 5 | Oregon | California | #4 | L7-41 |
| 1952 Regular Week 2 | Oregon | UCLA | #14 | L6-13 |
| 1951 Regular Week 10 | Oregon | California | #12 | L26-28 |
| 1951 Regular Week 7 | Oregon | Washington State | #17 | L6-41 |
| 1951 Regular Week 4 | Oregon | Pacific | #16 | L6-34 |
| 1950 Regular Week 7 | Pittsburgh | Miami | #9 | L0-28 |
| 1950 Regular Week 4 | Pittsburgh | Ohio State | #9 | L7-41 |
| 1949 Regular Week 8 | Santa Clara | Stanford | #12 | T7-7 |
| 1949 Regular Week 2 | Santa Clara | California | #9 | L7-21 |
| 1949 Postseason Week 1 | Santa Clara | Kentucky | #11 | W21-13 |
| 1948 Regular Week 7 | Santa Clara | SMU | #10 | L0-33 |
| 1948 Regular Week 3 | Santa Clara | Oklahoma | #18 | W20-17 |
| 1948 Regular Week 2 | Santa Clara | California | #6 | L19-41 |
| 1947 Regular Week 2 | Santa Clara | California | #4 | L7-33 |
| 1946 Regular Week 7 | Santa Clara | UCLA | #4 | L7-33 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Oregon
1951-1966 • 16 seasons
Avg SRS 5.5 • Win % 52.8%
Pittsburgh
1950-1950 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -5.4 • Win % 11.1%
Santa Clara
1946-1949 • 4 seasons
Avg SRS 4.0 • Win % 60.8%
- Longest tenure
- Oregon • 16 seasons
- Best tenure
- Oregon • 5.5 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Santa Clara • 60.8%
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.
Len Casanova
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.
Oregon
1951-1966 • 82-73-8
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 5.5Win % 52.8%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.1 during vs 5.0 baseline
+0.1
Avg SRS
Higher is better
5.5 during vs 1.6 baseline
+3.9
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 20.0% baseline
-20.0%
Pittsburgh
1950-1950 • 1-8
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -5.4Win % 11.1%
Avg wins
Higher is better
1.0 during vs 3.8 baseline
-2.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-5.4 during vs 3.4 baseline
-8.8
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Santa Clara
1946-1949 • 21-13-3
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS 4.0Win % 60.8%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Santa Clara 1949
8-2-1 • SRS 21.1
Biggest Improvement
Santa Clara 1948
7-2-1 • 12.0 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Santa Clara 1946
2-5-1 • SRS -12.6
Biggest Drop
Pittsburgh 1950
1-8 • -26.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Oregon | 1966 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 0.0 | — | — | — | -1.1 | -15.0% |
| Oregon | 1965 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | 1.1 | — | — | — | -12.2 | -30.0% |
| Oregon | 1964 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 13.3 | — | — | — | -0.3 | +2.3% |
| Oregon | 1963 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 72.7% | — | — | 13.6 | — | — | — | -0.8 | +7.7% |
| Oregon | 1962 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 65.0% | — | — | 14.4 | — | — | — | +10.1 | +25.0% |
| Oregon | 1961 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 4.3 | — | — | — | -2.2 | -28.2% |
| Oregon | 1960 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 68.2% | — | — | 6.5 | — | — | — | -4.3 | -11.8% |
| Oregon | 1959 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.0% | — | — | 10.8 | — | — | — | +1.7 | +40.0% |
| Oregon | 1958 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | 9.1 | — | — | — | -0.9 | -23.6% |
| Oregon | 1957 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 63.6% | — | — | 10.0 | — | — | — | -2.0 | +13.6% |
| Oregon | 1956 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 50.0% | — | — | 12.0 | — | — | — | +5.6 | -10.0% |
| Oregon | 1955 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | — | — | 6.4 | — | — | — | +3.4 | 0.0% |
| Oregon | 1954 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 60.0% | #18 | — | 3.0 | — | — | — | +4.3 | +15.0% |
| Oregon | 1953 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 45.0% | — | — | -1.3 | — | — | — | +4.1 | +20.0% |
| Oregon | 1952 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 25.0% | — | — | -5.4 | — | — | — | +4.7 | +5.0% |
| Oregon | 1951 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -10.1 | — | — | — | -4.7 | +8.9% |
| Pittsburgh | 1950 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11.1% | — | — | -5.4 | — | — | — | -26.5 | -66.2% |
| Santa Clara | 1949 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 77.3% | — | #15 | 21.1 | — | — | — | +11.3 | +2.3% |
| Santa Clara | 1948 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 75.0% | — | — | 9.8 | — | — | — | +12.0 | +25.0% |
| Santa Clara | 1947 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -2.2 | — | — | — | +10.4 | +18.8% |
| Santa Clara | 1946 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 31.3% | — | — | -12.6 | — | — | — | — | — |
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