Ed Foley

Head coach

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

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Programs2

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2023–2024NebraskaSpecial Teams Coordinator

2018TempleHead Coach

2016–2017TempleTight Ends

As head coach

Rating61Peak61Career61

2004–2018 · 3 seasonsRecord 7-16National 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 61: 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 61: best five-season stretch, 2004–2018 at Fordham and Temple (7-16).

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	Temple	0-1	#53	+0.29 SD

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