Al Molde

Head coach, 1987–1996

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

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1987–1996Western MichiganHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak52Career50

1987–1996 · 10 seasonsRecord 62-47National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 52: 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 52: best five-season stretch, 1987–1989 at Western Michigan (19-15), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
Career 50 (#470 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (62-47), 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
1996	Western Michigan	2-9	#103	-1.41 SD
1995	Western Michigan	7-4	#71	-0.36 SD
1994	Western Michigan	7-4	#84	-0.89 SD
1993	Western Michigan	7-3-1	#84	-0.94 SD
1992	Western Michigan	7-3-1	#90	-0.87 SD
1991	Western Michigan	6-5	#88	-0.87 SD
1990	Western Michigan	7-4	#84	-0.89 SD
1989	Western Michigan	5-6	#90	-1.18 SD
1988	Western Michigan	9-3	#74	-0.57 SD
1987	Western Michigan	5-6	#85	-1.04 SD

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