Blair Cherry

Head coach, 1947–1950

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1947–1950TexasHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak79Career72

1947–1950 · 4 seasonsRecord 32-10National titles 0Great seasons 2 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

Rating 79: 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 79: best five-season stretch, 1947–1950 at Texas (32-10, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a good program.
All of it at one program (Texas) — 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
1950	Texas	9-2	#3	+1.53 SD
1949	Texas	6-4	#5	+1.36 SD
1948	Texas	7-3-1	#17	+0.96 SD
1947	Texas	10-1	#2	+2.29 SD

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