Coaches / Head coach / Elliot Uzelac
Career
52
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak53best 5 yrs
Career52whole career
confidence
Elliot Uzelac
Head coach, 1975–1989
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs2
Stints2
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak53Career52
1975–1989 · 10 seasonsRecord 46-64National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- 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, 1976–1980 at Western Michigan (31-24), taking over a losing program.
- Career 52 (#456 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (46-64), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Navy | 3-8 | #80 | -0.76 SD |
| 1988 | Navy | 3-8 | #72 | -0.54 SD |
| 1987 | Navy | 2-9 | #86 | -1.05 SD |
| 1981 | Western Michigan | 6-5 | #97 | -0.73 SD |
| 1980 | Western Michigan | 7-4 | #88 | -0.64 SD |
| 1979 | Western Michigan | 6-5 | #73 | -0.30 SD |
| 1978 | Western Michigan | 7-4 | #96 | -0.82 SD |
| 1977 | Western Michigan | 4-7 | #91 | -0.70 SD |
| 1976 | Western Michigan | 7-4 | #85 | -0.52 SD |
| 1975 | Western Michigan | 1-10 | #114 | -1.75 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).