Forest Evashevski

Head coach, 1950–1960

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1952–1960IowaHead Coach

1950–1951Washington StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak89Career79

1950–1960 · 11 seasonsRecord 63-33National titles 3Great seasons 2 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 89: 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 89: best five-season stretch, 1956–1960 at Iowa (37-8, 5 top-10 seasons by team strength, 3 national titles), taking over an average program.
Career 79 (#70 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (63-33), 3 national titles, 2 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Iowa).

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
1960	Iowa	8-1	#1	+1.94 SD
1959	Iowa	5-4	#5	+1.41 SD
1958	Iowa	8-1-1	#1	+1.81 SD
1957	Iowa	7-1-1	#10	+1.35 SD
1956	Iowa	9-1	#6	+1.38 SD
1955	Iowa	3-5-1	#29	+0.61 SD
1954	Iowa	5-4	#10	+1.26 SD
1953	Iowa	5-3-1	#8	+1.40 SD
1952	Iowa	2-7	#56	-0.15 SD
1951	Washington State	7-3	#33	+0.47 SD
1950	Washington State	4-3-2	#74	-0.53 SD

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