Eddie Crowder

Head coach, 1963–1973

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1963–1973ColoradoHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak79Career74

1963–1973 · 11 seasonsRecord 67-49National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 79: 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 79: best five-season stretch, 1969–1973 at Colorado (37-20, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
Career 74 (#139 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (67-49), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
All of it at one program (Colorado) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.

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
1973	Colorado	5-6	#21	+0.80 SD
1972	Colorado	8-4	#14	+1.06 SD
1971	Colorado	10-2	#7	+1.77 SD
1970	Colorado	6-5	#14	+1.20 SD
1969	Colorado	8-3	#23	+0.97 SD
1968	Colorado	4-6	#32	+0.54 SD
1967	Colorado	9-2	#18	+1.02 SD
1966	Colorado	7-3	#29	+0.59 SD
1965	Colorado	6-2-2	#37	+0.40 SD
1964	Colorado	2-8	#63	-0.05 SD
1963	Colorado	2-8	#83	-0.78 SD

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