Billy Murphy

Head coach, 1960–1971

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

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1960–1971MemphisHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak71Career70

1960–1971 · 12 seasonsRecord 81-35National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 71: 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 71: best five-season stretch, 1960–1963 at Memphis (33-5), taking over an average program.
Career 70 (#187 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (81-35), 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
1971	Memphis	5-6	#37	+0.14 SD
1970	Memphis	6-4	#66	-0.34 SD
1969	Memphis	8-2	#33	+0.46 SD
1968	Memphis	6-4	#30	+0.58 SD
1967	Memphis	6-3	#26	+0.81 SD
1966	Memphis	7-2	#30	+0.58 SD
1965	Memphis	5-5	#45	+0.17 SD
1964	Memphis	5-4	#68	-0.21 SD
1963	Memphis	9-0-1	#23	+0.92 SD
1962	Memphis	8-1	#17	+1.03 SD
1961	Memphis	8-2	#31	+0.47 SD
1960	Memphis	8-2	#42	+0.31 SD

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