Al Groh

Head coach, 1981–2009

Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2001–2009VirginiaHead Coach

1981–1986Wake ForestHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak67Career66

1981–2009 · 15 seasonsRecord 85-93National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 67: his whole career, recent seasons weighted most, measured as how far his teams stood above their era, crediting him with half of what each program already was when he arrived (about the share that, historically, follows a coach to his next job), fading as the program becomes his own.
Peak 67: best five-season stretch, 2001–2005 at Virginia (37-26), taking over a good program.
Career 66 (#253 since 1936): total accomplishment over 15 seasons (85-93), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.

Rating = who he is: his whole head-coaching career (since 1936), weighted toward recent years — how far his teams stood above their contemporaries, how much he lifted programs, his great seasons and titles. Form = the last two seasons. Career = the all-time ranking number.

Season	Team	Record	Season rank	vs contemporaries
2009	Virginia	3-9	#57	+0.13 SD
2008	Virginia	5-7	#60	+0.05 SD
2007	Virginia	9-4	#51	+0.37 SD
2006	Virginia	5-7	#70	-0.23 SD
2005	Virginia	7-5	#38	+0.43 SD
2004	Virginia	8-4	#12	+1.26 SD
2003	Virginia	8-5	#21	+1.00 SD
2002	Virginia	9-5	#31	+0.71 SD
2001	Virginia	5-7	#69	-0.10 SD
1986	Wake Forest	5-6	#44	+0.16 SD
1985	Wake Forest	4-7	#64	-0.30 SD
1984	Wake Forest	6-5	#63	-0.10 SD
1983	Wake Forest	4-7	#65	-0.35 SD
1982	Wake Forest	3-8	#80	-0.71 SD
1981	Wake Forest	4-7	#88	-0.53 SD

Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).