F. Dry

Head coach, 1972–1982

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

1977–1982TCUHead Coach

1972–1976TulsaHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak62Career59

1972–1982 · 11 seasonsRecord 43-69National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 62: 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 62: best five-season stretch, 1972–1976 at Tulsa (31-18), taking over a losing program.
Career 59 (#360 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (43-69), 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
1982	TCU	3-8	#71	-0.58 SD
1981	TCU	2-7-2	#60	+0.06 SD
1980	TCU	1-10	#83	-0.50 SD
1979	TCU	2-8-1	#60	-0.04 SD
1978	TCU	2-9	#82	-0.45 SD
1977	TCU	2-9	#105	-1.19 SD
1976	Tulsa	7-4-1	#56	+0.12 SD
1975	Tulsa	7-4	#37	+0.45 SD
1974	Tulsa	8-3	#38	+0.46 SD
1973	Tulsa	6-5	#74	-0.41 SD
1972	Tulsa	3-2	#84	-0.68 SD

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