Coaches / Head coach / Bill Dooley
Career
68
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak66best 5 yrs
Career68whole career
confidence
Bill Dooley
Head coach, 1967–1992
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs3
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak66Career68
1967–1992 · 26 seasonsRecord 161-127National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 66: 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 66: best five-season stretch, 1983–1987 at Virginia Tech and Wake Forest (39-17).
- Career 68 (#216 since 1936): total accomplishment over 26 seasons (161-127), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Wake Forest | 8-4 | #33 | +0.50 SD |
| 1991 | Wake Forest | 3-8 | #86 | -0.86 SD |
| 1990 | Wake Forest | 3-8 | #74 | -0.48 SD |
| 1989 | Wake Forest | 2-8-1 | #78 | -0.70 SD |
| 1988 | Wake Forest | 6-4-1 | #36 | +0.35 SD |
| 1987 | Wake Forest | 7-4 | #43 | +0.24 SD |
| 1986 | Virginia Tech | 9-2-1 | #36 | +0.37 SD |
| 1985 | Virginia Tech | 6-5 | #44 | +0.31 SD |
| 1984 | Virginia Tech | 8-4 | #31 | +0.67 SD |
| 1983 | Virginia Tech | 9-2 | #23 | +0.97 SD |
| 1982 | Virginia Tech | 7-4 | #59 | -0.18 SD |
| 1981 | Virginia Tech | 7-4 | #40 | +0.41 SD |
| 1980 | Virginia Tech | 8-4 | #37 | +0.46 SD |
| 1979 | Virginia Tech | 5-6 | #60 | -0.04 SD |
| 1978 | Virginia Tech | 4-7 | #78 | -0.41 SD |
| 1977 | North Carolina | 8-3-1 | #14 | +1.27 SD |
| 1976 | North Carolina | 9-3 | #43 | +0.30 SD |
| 1975 | North Carolina | 3-7-1 | #94 | -0.73 SD |
| 1974 | North Carolina | 7-5 | #27 | +0.76 SD |
| 1973 | North Carolina | 4-7 | #62 | -0.14 SD |
| 1972 | North Carolina | 11-1 | #27 | +0.72 SD |
| 1971 | North Carolina | 9-3 | #25 | +0.79 SD |
| 1970 | North Carolina | 8-4 | #41 | +0.33 SD |
| 1969 | North Carolina | 5-5 | #61 | -0.21 SD |
| 1968 | North Carolina | 3-7 | #74 | -0.48 SD |
| 1967 | North Carolina | 2-8 | #86 | -0.78 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).