Dick Sheridan

Head coach, 1978–1992

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

1986–1992NC StateHead Coach

1978–1981FurmanHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak74Career66

1978–1992 · 11 seasonsRecord 82-42National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 74: 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 74: best five-season stretch, 1988–1992 at NC State (40-19), taking over an average program.
Career 66 (#256 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (82-42), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (NC State).

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
1992	NC State	9-3-1	#16	+1.10 SD
1991	NC State	9-3	#35	+0.51 SD
1990	NC State	7-5	#27	+0.63 SD
1989	NC State	7-5	#41	+0.31 SD
1988	NC State	8-3-1	#26	+0.72 SD
1987	NC State	4-7	#58	-0.10 SD
1986	NC State	8-3-1	#33	+0.54 SD
1981	Furman	8-3	#100	-0.84 SD
1980	Furman	9-1-1	#52	+0.15 SD
1979	Furman	5-6	#101	-1.01 SD
1978	Furman	8-3	#73	-0.35 SD

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