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Career
86
not coaching now
Rating80recent
Peak88best 5 yrs
Career86whole career
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Bill Snyder

Head coach

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

Chemistry
Chem 66: typical66
continuity at Kansas State · early
Seasons here—
Programs1
Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2009–2018Kansas StateHead Coach
1989–2005Kansas StateHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Kansas State
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here99Staff continuity — Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked togetherStaff continuity48Player retention — Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)Player retentionsoonFollowers — Players and staff who followed him from his previous jobFollowers60QB & coordinator — How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinatorQB & coordinator56Roster continuity — Share of starters returning from one season to the next under himRoster continuity65
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
99
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
48
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
soon
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
60
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
56
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
65
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.

As head coach

Rating80Peak88Career86
1989–2018 · 27 seasonsRecord 215-117National titles 0Great seasons 5 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
  • Rating 80: 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 88: best five-season stretch, 1995–1999 at Kansas State (52-9, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
  • Career 86 (#27 since 1936): total accomplishment over 27 seasons (215-117), 0 national titles, 5 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
  • All of it at one program (Kansas State) — 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.

SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2018Kansas State5-7#52+0.31 SD
2017Kansas State8-5#38+0.56 SD
2016Kansas State9-4#30+0.79 SD
2015Kansas State6-7#61+0.16 SD
2014Kansas State9-4#12+1.44 SD
2013Kansas State8-5#22+1.03 SD
2012Kansas State11-2#4+1.77 SD
2011Kansas State10-3#17+1.04 SD
2010Kansas State7-6#48+0.26 SD
2009Kansas State6-6#63-0.03 SD
2005Kansas State5-6#70-0.18 SD
2004Kansas State4-7#53+0.23 SD
2003Kansas State11-4#6+1.63 SD
2002Kansas State11-2#2+2.04 SD
2001Kansas State6-6#20+0.97 SD
2000Kansas State11-3#8+1.40 SD
1999Kansas State11-1#8+1.51 SD
1998Kansas State11-2#2+2.09 SD
1997Kansas State11-1#11+1.33 SD
1996Kansas State9-3#13+1.21 SD
1995Kansas State10-2#9+1.48 SD
1994Kansas State9-3#16+1.03 SD
1993Kansas State9-2-1#24+0.82 SD
1992Kansas State5-6#69-0.34 SD
1991Kansas State7-4#29+0.64 SD
1990Kansas State5-6#64-0.19 SD
1989Kansas State1-10#98-1.48 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).