Frank Burns

Head coach, 1973–1983

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

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1973–1983RutgersHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak64Career59

1973–1983 · 11 seasonsRecord 78-43National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 64: 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 64: best five-season stretch, 1975–1979 at Rutgers (45-11), taking over a losing program.
Career 59 (#359 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (78-43), 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
1983	Rutgers	3-8	#84	-0.83 SD
1982	Rutgers	5-6	#78	-0.70 SD
1981	Rutgers	5-6	#73	-0.25 SD
1980	Rutgers	7-4	#40	+0.37 SD
1979	Rutgers	8-3	#53	+0.14 SD
1978	Rutgers	9-3	#58	+0.07 SD
1977	Rutgers	8-3	#66	-0.05 SD
1976	Rutgers	11-0	#29	+0.62 SD
1975	Rutgers	9-2	#45	+0.32 SD
1974	Rutgers	7-3-1	#85	-0.73 SD
1973	Rutgers	6-5	#98	-1.34 SD

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