David Beaty

Head coach

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

Chemistry

continuity at Kansas · early

Seasons here—

Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2023–2024Florida AtlanticWide Receivers Coach

2015–2018KansasHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical

How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Kansas

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)

soon

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

Rating53Peak53Career56

2015–2018 · 4 seasonsRecord 6-42National 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 53: 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 53: best five-season stretch, 2015–2018 at Kansas (6-42), taking over a losing program.

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
2018	Kansas	3-9	#70	-0.10 SD
2017	Kansas	1-11	#118	-1.32 SD
2016	Kansas	2-10	#113	-1.27 SD
2015	Kansas	0-12	#113	-1.46 SD

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