Coaches / Head coach / Dave Clawson
Career
60
not coaching now
Rating66recent
Peak66best 5 yrs
Career60whole career
confidence
Dave Clawson
Head coach
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
76
continuity at Wake Forest · early
Seasons here—
Programs2
Stints2
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
Chemistry
vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
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
Rating66Peak66Career60
1999–2024 · 25 seasonsRecord 157-150National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 66: 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 66: best five-season stretch, 2017–2021 at Wake Forest (38-24), taking over an average program.
- Career 60 (#333 since 1936): total accomplishment over 25 seasons (157-150), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Wake Forest | 4-8 | #94 | -0.56 SD |
| 2023 | Wake Forest | 4-8 | #85 | -0.37 SD |
| 2022 | Wake Forest | 8-5 | #32 | +0.70 SD |
| 2021 | Wake Forest | 11-3 | #12 | +1.17 SD |
| 2020 | Wake Forest | 4-5 | — | — |
| 2019 | Wake Forest | 8-5 | #57 | +0.04 SD |
| 2018 | Wake Forest | 7-6 | #63 | +0.06 SD |
| 2017 | Wake Forest | 8-5 | #19 | +1.05 SD |
| 2016 | Wake Forest | 7-6 | #68 | +0.02 SD |
| 2015 | Wake Forest | 3-9 | #84 | -0.27 SD |
| 2014 | Wake Forest | 3-9 | #98 | -0.84 SD |
| 2013 | Bowling Green | 10-4 | #47 | +0.38 SD |
| 2012 | Bowling Green | 8-5 | #78 | -0.43 SD |
| 2011 | Bowling Green | 5-7 | #95 | -0.75 SD |
| 2010 | Bowling Green | 2-10 | #110 | -1.53 SD |
| 2009 | Bowling Green | 7-6 | #83 | -0.47 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).