Dave Currey

Head coach, 1977–1988

Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1984–1988CincinnatiHead Coach

1977–1983Long Beach StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak50Career49

1977–1988 · 12 seasonsRecord 59-72National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 50: 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 50: best five-season stretch, 1977–1980 at Long Beach State (24-19), taking over a losing program.
Career 49 (#478 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (59-72), 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
1988	Cincinnati	3-8	#95	-1.61 SD
1987	Cincinnati	4-7	#75	-0.74 SD
1986	Cincinnati	5-6	#72	-0.50 SD
1985	Cincinnati	5-6	#70	-0.49 SD
1984	Cincinnati	2-9	#97	-1.58 SD
1983	Long Beach State	8-4	#77	-0.54 SD
1982	Long Beach State	6-5	#78	-0.70 SD
1981	Long Beach State	2-8	#104	-0.97 SD
1980	Long Beach State	8-3	#62	-0.05 SD
1979	Long Beach State	7-4	#94	-0.79 SD
1978	Long Beach State	5-6	#101	-0.94 SD
1977	Long Beach State	4-6	#89	-0.62 SD

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