Frank Cignetti

Head coach

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

Chemistry

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index in development

Seasons here—

Programs3

Stints4

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2024West VirginiaHead Coach

2022–2023PittsburghOffensive Coordinator

2020–2021Boston CollegeOffensive Coordinator

1976–1979West VirginiaHead Coach

As head coach

Rating58Peak58Career61

1976–1979 · 4 seasonsRecord 17-27National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

Rating 58: 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 58: best five-season stretch, 1976–1979 at West Virginia (17-27), taking over an average program.

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
1979	West Virginia	5-6	#68	-0.19 SD
1978	West Virginia	2-9	#105	-1.08 SD
1977	West Virginia	5-6	#49	+0.26 SD
1976	West Virginia	5-6	#47	+0.26 SD

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

As offensive coordinator

Rating51Peak73

His offense against its preseason projection (value over expectation) and the unit's opponent-adjusted quality.

Season	Team	Unit (EPA/play)	Over expectation	Season score
2023	Pittsburgh	-0.12	-0.15	-1.84
2022	Pittsburgh	0.00	-0.02	-0.16
2021	Boston College	-0.04	-0.12	-1.13
2020	Boston College	0.06	0.05	0.72

Season score: 0 = an average season in this role; positive = better.