Coach Profile
1956-1958 • Baylor
One defining stop at Baylor.
Sam Boyd coached 3 seasons, won 50.0%, and posted an average SRS of 9.0. Best season: 1956 Baylor. The profile was balanced with a highly volatile profile. One primary stop defined the run.
Career Dossier
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
Primary school anchor
Baylor
Balanced profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 84.2.
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
9-2 • SRS 20.0 • SP Overall —
Win %
81.8%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
#11
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.
Baylor
1956-1958 • 3 seasons
Avg SRS 9.0 • Win % 50.0%
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.
Not enough data to compare.
Not enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Sam Boyd
Insufficient sample
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
See how each stop compared with what that program usually looked like outside this tenure.
1956-1958 • 15-15-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside the tenure over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.0 during vs 6.2 baseline
-1.2
Avg SRS
Higher is better
9.0 during vs 12.7 baseline
-3.7
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
33.3% during vs 40.0% baseline
-6.7%
High Points
Best Season
Baylor 1956
9-2 • SRS 20.0
Biggest Improvement
Baylor 1958
3-7 • 2.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Worst Season
Baylor 1957
3-6-1 • SRS 2.1
Biggest Drop
Baylor 1957
3-6-1 • -17.9 SRS
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Baylor | 1958 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 30.0% | — | — | 4.9 | — | — | — | +2.8 | -5.0% |
| Baylor | 1957 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 35.0% | #7 | — | 2.1 | — | — | — | -17.9 | -46.8% |
| Baylor | 1956 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 81.8% | — | #11 | 20.0 | — | — | — | — | — |
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