Dave Smith

Head coach, 1972–1975

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

1973–1975SMUHead Coach

1972Oklahoma StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak66Career65

1972–1975 · 4 seasonsRecord 22-20National 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 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, 1972–1974 at Oklahoma State and SMU (18-13).

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
1975	SMU	4-7	#62	-0.04 SD
1974	SMU	6-4-1	#51	+0.21 SD
1973	SMU	6-4-1	#48	+0.21 SD
1972	Oklahoma State	6-5	#17	+0.93 SD

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