Art Briles

Head coach, 2003–2015

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

Chemistry

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index in development

Seasons here—

Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2008–2015BaylorHead Coach

2003–2007HoustonHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak84Career70

2003–2015 · 13 seasonsRecord 99-65National titles 0Great seasons 2 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 83: 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 84: best five-season stretch, 2011–2015 at Baylor (50-15, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a losing program.
Career 70 (#184 since 1936): total accomplishment over 13 seasons (99-65), 0 national titles, 2 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Baylor).

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
2015	Baylor	10-3	#8	+1.38 SD
2014	Baylor	11-2	#7	+1.65 SD
2013	Baylor	11-2	#4	+1.63 SD
2012	Baylor	8-5	#16	+1.13 SD
2011	Baylor	10-3	#21	+1.01 SD
2010	Baylor	7-6	#62	-0.01 SD
2009	Baylor	4-8	#79	-0.40 SD
2008	Baylor	4-8	#47	+0.24 SD
2007	Houston	8-4	#75	-0.33 SD
2006	Houston	10-4	#44	+0.39 SD
2005	Houston	6-6	#80	-0.41 SD
2004	Houston	3-8	#89	-0.73 SD
2003	Houston	7-6	#81	-0.57 SD

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