D.C. Walker

Head coach, 1937–1950

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

1937–1950Wake ForestHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak69Career64

1937–1950 · 11 seasonsRecord 60-42National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 69: 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 69: best five-season stretch, 1942–1949 at Wake Forest (28-19), taking over an average program.
Career 64 (#283 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (60-42), 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
1950	Wake Forest	6-1-2	#44	+0.19 SD
1949	Wake Forest	4-6	#45	+0.08 SD
1948	Wake Forest	6-4	#28	+0.63 SD
1947	Wake Forest	6-4	#47	+0.20 SD
1946	Wake Forest	6-3	#22	+0.75 SD
1945	Wake Forest	5-3-1	#25 (wartime)	+0.40 SD
1944	Wake Forest	8-1	#30 (wartime)	+0.06 SD
1943	Wake Forest	4-5	#39 (wartime)	-0.62 SD
1942	Wake Forest	6-2-1	#26	+0.52 SD
1941	Wake Forest	5-5-1	#68	-0.47 SD
1940	Wake Forest	7-3	#60	-0.18 SD
1939	Wake Forest	7-3	#20	+0.88 SD
1938	Wake Forest	4-5-1	#55	+0.08 SD
1937	Wake Forest	3-6	#94	-1.94 SD

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