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Form · last two seasons
76
performing to its level
Rating75recent
Peak76best 5 yrs
Career74whole career
confidence

Bob Chesney

Head Coach · UCLA
★ Difference Makersigns classes above the program's normRecruiting Acelifts programs beyond what their talent predictsProgram Builderassistants thrive and get promotedStaff Architect

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

Chemistry
Chem 51: typical51
continuity at UCLA · early
Seasons here1
Programs2
Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2026UCLAHead Coach
2024–2025James MadisonHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat UCLA
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here29Staff 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 jobFollowers97QB & 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 continuity27
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
29
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
97
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
27
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

Rating75Form76≈ as usualPeak76Career74
2010–2026 · 17 seasonsRecord 132-52National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
  • Rating 75: 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 76: best five-season stretch, 2013–2017 at Assumption (44-16), taking over an average program.
  • Career 74 (#131 since 1936): total accomplishment over 17 seasons (132-52), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
  • Proven at 3 programs: Salve Regina · Assumption · Holy Cross.
Over expectation · 2016 on94Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).

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.

Program lift94
Evaluation52
Results79
Recruiting99
Staff building94
Game management73
SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2026UCLA0-0#12+1.36 SD
2025James Madison12-2#29+0.85 SD
2024James Madison9-4#62+0.12 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).