Gary Blackney

Head coach, 1991–2000

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

1991–2000Bowling GreenHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak63Career54

1991–2000 · 10 seasonsRecord 60-50National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

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 63: best five-season stretch, 1991–1994 at Bowling Green (36-8), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
Career 54 (#430 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (60-50), 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
2000	Bowling Green	2-9	#99	-1.19 SD
1999	Bowling Green	5-6	#96	-0.92 SD
1998	Bowling Green	5-6	#73	-0.40 SD
1997	Bowling Green	3-8	#88	-0.84 SD
1996	Bowling Green	4-7	#97	-1.21 SD
1995	Bowling Green	5-6	#86	-0.78 SD
1994	Bowling Green	9-2	#50	+0.17 SD
1993	Bowling Green	6-3-2	#74	-0.51 SD
1992	Bowling Green	10-2	#58	-0.04 SD
1991	Bowling Green	11-1	#57	-0.05 SD

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