Coaches / Head coach / Claude Gilbert
Career
61
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak59best 5 yrs
Career61whole career
confidence
Claude Gilbert
Head coach, 1973–1989
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs2
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak59Career61
1973–1989 · 14 seasonsRecord 99-56National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 57: 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 59: best five-season stretch, 1973–1975 at San Diego State (25-6), taking over an average program.
- Career 61 (#328 since 1936): total accomplishment over 14 seasons (99-56), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | San José State | 6-5 | #63 | -0.27 SD |
| 1988 | San José State | 4-8 | #81 | -0.78 SD |
| 1987 | San José State | 10-2 | #50 | +0.05 SD |
| 1986 | San José State | 10-2 | #26 | +0.71 SD |
| 1985 | San José State | 2-8-1 | #97 | -1.45 SD |
| 1984 | San José State | 6-5 | #70 | -0.23 SD |
| 1980 | San Diego State | 4-8 | #101 | -0.94 SD |
| 1979 | San Diego State | 8-3 | #56 | +0.08 SD |
| 1978 | San Diego State | 4-7 | #75 | -0.36 SD |
| 1977 | San Diego State | 10-1 | #29 | +0.74 SD |
| 1976 | San Diego State | 10-1 | #81 | -0.42 SD |
| 1975 | San Diego State | 8-3 | #32 | +0.60 SD |
| 1974 | San Diego State | 8-2-1 | #40 | +0.37 SD |
| 1973 | San Diego State | 9-1-1 | #25 | +0.54 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).