Bobby Johnson

Head coach, 2002–2009

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

2002–2009VanderbiltHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak64Career60

2002–2009 · 8 seasonsRecord 29-66National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 64: 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 64: best five-season stretch, 2004–2008 at Vanderbilt (23-36), taking over a losing program.
Career 60 (#338 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (29-66), 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
2009	Vanderbilt	2-10	#78	-0.38 SD
2008	Vanderbilt	7-6	#40	+0.34 SD
2007	Vanderbilt	5-7	#57	+0.22 SD
2006	Vanderbilt	4-8	#56	+0.13 SD
2005	Vanderbilt	5-6	#69	-0.16 SD
2004	Vanderbilt	2-9	#81	-0.40 SD
2003	Vanderbilt	2-10	#85	-0.70 SD
2002	Vanderbilt	2-10	#87	-0.71 SD

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