Top 25
3-18
- Games
- 21
- Win rate
- 14.3%
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Coach Profile
Tommy West
1993-2009 • Clemson, Memphis
2 schools coached, anchored by Memphis.
Tommy West's coaching record is 80-89, highlighted by seasons at Memphis from 1993 to 2009.
Tommy West coached 15 seasons, won 47.3%, and posted an average SRS of -3.1. Best season: 1997 Clemson. The profile was offense-first with a swing-heavy profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 80-89
- Career win rate
- 47.3%
- Average SRS
- -3.1
- Peak SRS
- 12.1
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
- 15
- Career span
- 17 years
- Best finish
- #23
- Consistency
- 36.6
Primary school anchor
Memphis
Offense-First profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 66.6.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 80-89
- Memphis record
- 49-61
- Full-season record
- 79-89
- Partial-season record
- 1-0
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-7
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-3
- Vs Ole Miss
- 2-6
- Postseason / bowl record
- 2-6
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
169 countable games, 47.3% win rate.
9 countable seasons at Memphis.
14 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
Rows where the coach-season record covers fewer games than the team's completed season.
7 games using AP ranking at game time.
3 games using AP ranking at game time.
Mid-South Rivalry games in this dataset.
8 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Nov 27, 2009. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
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.
Tommy West
EliteStrongAverageLean
Tommy West: 2001 Memphis
1993Actual season year • SRS range -15.7 to 12.12009
Active comparison point
Tommy West • 1997
1997 Clemson
Best season7-5 • SRS 12.1 • SP Overall 13.1
Win %
58.3%
YoY SRS
+9.9
SP Off / Def
32.2 / 19.8
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
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-3
- Games
- 3
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results21
| 2009 Regular Week 12 | Memphis | Houston | #24 | L14-55 |
| 2006 Regular Week 5 | Memphis | Tennessee | #15 | L7-41 |
| 2004 Regular Week 11 | Memphis | Louisville | #14 | L49-56 |
| 2001 Regular Week 12 | Memphis | Tennessee | #6 | L28-49 |
| 2001 Regular Week 2 | Memphis | Mississippi State | #20 | L10-30 |
| 1998 Regular Week 12 | Clemson | Georgia Tech | #21 | L21-24 |
| 1998 Regular Week 8 | Clemson | Florida State | #6 | L0-48 |
| 1998 Regular Week 4 | Clemson | Virginia | #11 | L18-20 |
| 1997 Regular Week 13 | Clemson | North Carolina | #8 | L10-17 |
| 1997 Regular Week 5 | Clemson | Florida State | #5 | L28-35 |
| 1997 Postseason Week 1 | Clemson | Auburn | #11 | L17-21 |
| 1996 Regular Week 12 | Clemson | Virginia | #15 | W24-16 |
| 1996 Regular Week 9 | Clemson | Georgia Tech | #22 | W28-25 |
| 1996 Regular Week 7 | Clemson | Florida State | #2 | L3-34 |
| 1996 Postseason Week 1 | Clemson | LSU | #12 | L7-10 |
| 1995 Regular Week 5 | Clemson | Virginia | #11 | L3-22 |
| 1995 Regular Week 3 | Clemson | Florida State | #1 | L26-45 |
| 1995 Postseason Week 1 | Clemson | Syracuse | #19 | L0-41 |
| 1994 Regular Week 11 | Clemson | North Carolina | #19 | W28-17 |
| 1994 Regular Week 9 | Clemson | Florida State | #10 | L0-17 |
| 1994 Regular Week 8 | Clemson | Duke | #25 | L13-19 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Memphis
2001-2009 • 9 seasons
Avg SRS -7.2 • Win % 44.5%
Clemson
1993-1998 • 6 seasons
Avg SRS 2.9 • Win % 52.5%
- Longest tenure
- Memphis • 9 seasons
- Best tenure
- Clemson • 2.9 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Clemson • 52.5%
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.
Tommy West sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeTommy West sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Tommy West
Mixed
- Raw avg SP Overall
- -2.3
- Percentile
- 49th pct
Mixed
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.
Memphis
2001-2009 • 49-61
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -7.2Win % 44.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.4 during vs 3.8 baseline
+1.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-7.2 during vs -4.7 baseline
-2.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
-6.1 during vs -5.6 baseline
-0.5
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Clemson
1993-1998 • 31-28
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 2.9Win % 52.5%
Avg wins
Higher is better
6.0 during vs 8.8 baseline
-2.8
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.6 during vs 15.2 baseline
-11.6
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
4.3 during vs 17.6 baseline
-13.3
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 80.0% baseline
-80.0%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Clemson 1997
7-5 • SRS 12.1
Biggest Improvement
Memphis 2003
9-4 • 12.1 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Memphis 2004
8-4 • SP Off 41.3
Best Defensive Season
Clemson 1994
5-6 • SP Def 19.1
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Memphis 2009
2-10 • SRS -15.7
Biggest Drop
Clemson 1998
3-8 • -14.2 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Memphis | 2009 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -15.7 | -14.4 | 22.8 | 36.8 | -7.5 | -29.5% | Season summary |
| Memphis | 2008 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 46.2% | — | — | -8.2 | -3.4 | 28.9 | 31.5 | +5.2 | -7.7% | Season summary |
| Memphis | 2007 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | -13.4 | -12.9 | 27.0 | 38.3 | -0.4 | +37.2% | Season summary |
| Memphis | 2006 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -13.0 | -13.2 | 23.1 | 35.4 | -8.9 | -41.7% | Season summary |
| Memphis | 2005 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | — | — | -4.1 | -3.4 | 27.5 | 31.0 | -2.6 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Memphis | 2004 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | -1.5 | 2.8 | 41.3 | 38.9 | -4.0 | -2.6% | Season summary |
| Memphis | 2003 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 69.2% | — | — | 2.5 | 1.0 | 30.4 | 30.1 | +12.1 | +44.2% | Season summary |
| Memphis | 2002 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25.0% | — | — | -9.6 | -10.3 | 27.5 | 35.6 | -8.1 | -20.4% | Season summary |
| Memphis | 2001 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | -1.5 | -1.0 | 31.4 | 32.8 | +0.6 | +18.2% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 1998 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 27.3% | — | — | -2.1 | -3.1 | 26.5 | 29.7 | -14.2 | -31.1% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 1997 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #20 | — | 12.1 | 13.1 | 32.2 | 19.8 | +9.9 | 0.0% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 1996 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 58.3% | #25 | — | 2.2 | 2.1 | 26.5 | 25.0 | -5.8 | -8.3% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 1995 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.7% | — | — | 8.0 | 10.3 | 29.6 | 20.3 | +10.4 | +21.2% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 1994 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | #25 | — | -2.4 | -1.0 | 18.0 | 19.1 | -2.0 | -54.5% | Season summary |
| Clemson | 1993 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% | #23 | #23 | -0.4 | -1.0 | 18.8 | 19.8 | — | — | Partial season |
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