* = Coach departed following 2015 season.
BOLD = Newly eligible coach in rankings (minimum three seasons in position)
Going Up
2583.78% – Clemson (19.86 – Eddie Radwanski – 0.74 – Hershey Strosberg)
1086.01% – UMBC (28.82 – Leslie Wray – 2.43 – Alyssa Radu)
993.56% – Arizona (28.87 – Tony Amato – 2.64 – Lisa Oyen)
696.90% – South Alabama (74.59 – Graham Winkworth – 9.36 – Mike Varga)
593.66% – Lipscomb (20.81 – Kevin O’Brien – 3.00 – Jon Ireland)
390.81% – Arkansas (18.16 – Colby Hale – 3.70 – Erin Aubry)
344.67% – UC Riverside (17.92 – Nat Gonzalez – 4.03 – Veronica O’Brien)
324.55% – Indiana (19.02 – Amy Berbary – 4.48 – Mick Lyon)
302.94% – San Francisco (12.33 – Jim Millinder – 3.06 – Mark Carr)
252.16% – Vermont (12.22 – Kristi Lefebvre – 3.47 – Kwame Lloyd)
249.35% – Cincinnati (29.73 – Neil Stafford – 8.51 – Michelle Salmon)
237.20% – Montana (33.72 – Mark Plakorus – 10.00 – Neil Segwick)
176.32% – Southern Miss (3.15 – Mohammed El-Zare – 1.14 – Scott Ebke)
165.35% – Cornell (3.37 – Patrick Farmer – 1.27 – Danielle LaRoche)
109.36% – George Washington (19.91 – Sarah Barnes – 9.51 – Tanya Vogel)
88.02% – Albany (32.64 – Caitlin Cucchiella – 17.36 – Mary-Frances Monroe)
77.67% – Northwestern (16.31 – Michael Moynihan – 9.18 – Stephanie Foster)
77.05% – Southern (15.74 – Courtnie Prather – 8.89 – John Knighten)
74.10% – Virginia Tech (42.95 – Chugger Adair – 24.67 – Kelly Cagle)
47.43% – Oral Roberts (23.84 – Roger Bush – 16.17 – Ryan Bush)
46.61% – Wyoming (20.32 – Pete Cuardado – 13.86 – Danny Sanchez)
44.65% – *Western Michigan (40.43 – Nate Norman – 27.95 – Suzie Grech)
37.37% – *Georgia State (13.60 – Derek Leader – 9.90 – Dom Martelli)
30.61% – *Lamar (14.72 – Orlando Cervantes – 11.27 – Dewi Hardman)
28.02% – East Tennessee State (24.72 – Adam Sayers – 19.31 – Heather Henson)
24.74% – Florida Atlantic (12.96 – Patrick Baker – 10.39 – Brian Dooley)
23.73% – VCU (23.15 – Lindsey Martin – 18.71 – Tiffany Roberts-Sahaydak)
16.14% – Mercer (44.48 – Tony Economopoulos – 38.30 – Grant Serafy)
9.45% – North Dakota State (33.46 – Mark Cook – 30.57 – Pete Cuadrado)
6.33% – Duquesne (19.48 – Al Alvine – 18.32 – Tim Zundel)
6.11% – Oklahoma (17.36 – Matt Potter – 16.36 – Nicole Nelson)
4.42% – UCF (64.71 – Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak – 61.97 – Amanda Cromwell)
0.43% – *Louisiana-Monroe (2.33 – Roberto Mazza – 2.32 – Stacy Lamb)
Eddie Radwanski Continues A Great Salvage Job
There’ll likely be more improvement yet this season with Clemson a College Cup contender, but it still boggles the mind how quickly Eddie Radwanski has taken a program at rock bottom and made it viable once more. Radwanski’s overall CoachRank numbers aren’t much to crow about yet, but considering where he started out, he’s done amazing work to get the Tigers contending for honors in the ACC. He’s been the best hire of the past half-decade, and it’s not even close.
The Big Hitters on Last Year’s Ranking Are Still Going Fine
UMBC and Arkansas probably had seasons to forget in 2015, but the bad years didn’t really take too much of a dent out of the improvement made in each program since their current boss took over. Elsewhere, the likes of Lipscomb, UC Riverside, and Vermont keep on rising, though all but the former are still quite modest as compared to some of their conference rivals right now.
Getting On The Right Side of the Ledger
Elsewhere in those on the positive side of the ledger, Jim Millinder nearly getting San Francisco to the WCC title sent his number soaring after the appearance of more modest gains following last season. Likewise with Sarah Barnes at George Washington, though the Colonials boss actually brought home a regular season title in impressive fashion last year for GW. More notably, Northwestern’s Michael Moynihan used an NCAA Tournament season to affect a huge swing and get well into positive percentage numbers after finishing last year at -34.5% from his predecessor. Al Alvine of Duquesne used an A10 Tournament title to similarly boost his number, while there were also turnarounds at North Dakota State for Mark Cook and Oklahoma for Matt Potter.
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