Biggie Munn

Head coach, 1946–1953

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1947–1953Michigan StateHead Coach

1946SyracuseHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak87Career77

1946–1953 · 8 seasonsRecord 58-14National titles 2Great seasons 3 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 87: 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 87: best five-season stretch, 1949–1953 at Michigan State (41-5, 4 top-10 seasons by team strength, 2 national titles), taking over an average program.
Career 77 (#97 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (58-14), 2 national titles, 3 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Michigan State).

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
1953	Michigan State	9-1	#4	+1.63 SD
1952	Michigan State	9-0	#1	+1.84 SD
1951	Michigan State	9-0	#3	+1.56 SD
1950	Michigan State	8-1	#12	+1.10 SD
1949	Michigan State	6-3	#9	+1.28 SD
1948	Michigan State	6-2-2	#16	+1.01 SD
1947	Michigan State	7-2	#31	+0.53 SD
1946	Syracuse	4-5	#65	-0.34 SD

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