Coaches / Head coach / Buck Shaw
Career
68
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak74best 5 yrs
Career68whole career
confidence
Buck Shaw
Head coach, 1937–1957
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs3
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak74Career68
1937–1957 · 7 seasonsRecord 42-15National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)
- Rating 58: 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 74: best five-season stretch, 1937–1940 at Santa Clara (26-4, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
- Won big at one of his 2 programs (Santa Clara).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Air Force | 3-6-1 | #85 | -1.53 SD |
| 1956 | Air Force | 6-2-1 | — | — |
| 1945 | California | 4-5-1 | #60 (wartime) | -0.64 SD |
| 1942 | Santa Clara | 7-2 | #45 | +0.14 SD |
| 1941 | Santa Clara | 6-3 | #20 | +0.81 SD |
| 1940 | Santa Clara | 6-1-1 | #14 | +1.15 SD |
| 1939 | Santa Clara | 5-1-3 | #22 | +0.69 SD |
| 1938 | Santa Clara | 6-2 | #16 | +1.07 SD |
| 1937 | Santa Clara | 9-0 | #9 | +1.17 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).