Coaches / Head coach / Barry Alvarez
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak76best 5 yrs
Career76whole career
confidence
Barry Alvarez
Head coach, 1990–2014
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Seasons here—
Programs1
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak76Career76
1990–2014 · 18 seasonsRecord 118-75National titles 0Great seasons 2 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 76: 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 76: best five-season stretch, 1996–2000 at Wisconsin (46-17, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a losing program.
- Career 76 (#101 since 1936): total accomplishment over 18 seasons (118-75), 0 national titles, 2 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- All of it at one program (Wisconsin) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Wisconsin | 1-0 | #17 | +1.19 SD |
| 2012 | Wisconsin | 0-1 | #21 | +0.94 SD |
| 2005 | Wisconsin | 10-3 | #19 | +1.02 SD |
| 2004 | Wisconsin | 9-3 | #33 | +0.60 SD |
| 2003 | Wisconsin | 7-6 | #34 | +0.65 SD |
| 2002 | Wisconsin | 8-6 | #36 | +0.58 SD |
| 2001 | Wisconsin | 5-7 | #53 | +0.26 SD |
| 2000 | Wisconsin | 9-4 | #26 | +0.76 SD |
| 1999 | Wisconsin | 10-2 | #4 | +1.74 SD |
| 1998 | Wisconsin | 11-1 | #7 | +1.53 SD |
| 1997 | Wisconsin | 8-5 | #58 | -0.02 SD |
| 1996 | Wisconsin | 8-5 | #24 | +0.76 SD |
| 1995 | Wisconsin | 4-5-2 | #26 | +0.66 SD |
| 1994 | Wisconsin | 7-4-1 | #13 | +1.13 SD |
| 1993 | Wisconsin | 10-1-1 | #10 | +1.34 SD |
| 1992 | Wisconsin | 5-6 | #41 | +0.23 SD |
| 1991 | Wisconsin | 5-6 | #71 | -0.47 SD |
| 1990 | Wisconsin | 1-10 | #80 | -0.67 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).