Frank Murray

Head coach, 1936–1949

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1946–1949MarquetteHead Coach

1937–1945VirginiaHead Coach

1936MarquetteHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak58Career54

1936–1949 · 11 seasonsRecord 46-52National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 56: 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, 1936–1939 at Marquette and Virginia (18-17, 1 top-10 season by team strength).
Career 54 (#429 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (46-52), 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
1949	Marquette	4-5	#79	-0.76 SD
1948	Marquette	2-8	#76	-0.94 SD
1947	Marquette	4-5	#68	-0.49 SD
1946	Marquette	4-5	#67	-0.39 SD
1945	Virginia	7-2	#36 (wartime)	-0.08 SD
1944	Virginia	6-1-2	#39 (wartime)	-0.26 SD
1943	Virginia	3-4-1	#43 (wartime)	-0.80 SD
1942	Virginia	2-6-1	#77	-1.15 SD
1941	Virginia	8-1	#35	+0.45 SD
1940	Virginia	4-5	#77	-0.77 SD
1939	Virginia	5-4	#63	-0.27 SD
1938	Virginia	4-4-1	#78	-0.89 SD
1937	Virginia	2-7	#91	-1.84 SD
1936	Marquette	7-2	#6	+1.35 SD

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