Gary Barnett

Head coach, 1992–2005

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

1999–2005ColoradoHead Coach

1992–1998NorthwesternHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak69Career69

1992–2005 · 14 seasonsRecord 84-83National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 69: 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 69: best five-season stretch, 1993–1997 at Northwestern (29-28, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over a losing program.
Career 69 (#200 since 1936): total accomplishment over 14 seasons (84-83), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; 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
2005	Colorado	7-5	#37	+0.45 SD
2004	Colorado	8-5	#49	+0.28 SD
2003	Colorado	5-7	#60	-0.02 SD
2002	Colorado	9-5	#19	+0.98 SD
2001	Colorado	10-3	#14	+1.04 SD
2000	Colorado	3-8	#41	+0.41 SD
1999	Colorado	7-5	#26	+0.69 SD
1998	Northwestern	3-9	#78	-0.52 SD
1997	Northwestern	5-7	#55	+0.12 SD
1996	Northwestern	9-3	#33	+0.57 SD
1995	Northwestern	10-2	#7	+1.56 SD
1994	Northwestern	3-7-1	#62	-0.09 SD
1993	Northwestern	2-9	#70	-0.37 SD
1992	Northwestern	3-8	#83	-0.71 SD

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