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80
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Rating79recent
Peak79best 5 yrs
Career80whole career
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Gary Patterson

Defensive Coordinator · USC

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

Chemistry
Chem 66: typical66
continuity at TCU · early
Seasons here1
Programs2
Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2026USCDefensive Coordinator
2000–2021TCUHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat TCU
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here97Staff continuity — Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked togetherStaff continuity48Player retention — Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)Player retention58Followers — Players and staff who followed him from his previous jobFollowers60QB & coordinator — How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinatorQB & coordinator69Roster continuity — Share of starters returning from one season to the next under himRoster continuity63
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
97
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
48
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
58
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
60
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
69
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
63
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.

As head coach

Rating79Peak79Career80
2000–2021 · 22 seasonsRecord 181-79National titles 0Great seasons 3 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
  • Rating 79: 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 79: best five-season stretch, 2008–2012 at TCU (54-11, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over an average program.
  • Career 80 (#58 since 1936): total accomplishment over 22 seasons (181-79), 0 national titles, 3 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
  • All of it at one program (TCU) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.

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.

SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2021TCU3-5#82-0.26 SD
2020TCU6-4#20+0.65 SD
2019TCU5-7#29+0.73 SD
2018TCU7-6#50+0.34 SD
2017TCU11-3#13+1.28 SD
2016TCU6-7#48+0.35 SD
2015TCU11-2#16+1.14 SD
2014TCU12-1#2+2.09 SD
2013TCU4-8#46+0.41 SD
2012TCU7-6#28+0.78 SD
2011TCU11-2#23+0.83 SD
2010TCU13-0#6+1.70 SD
2009TCU12-1#5+1.85 SD
2008TCU11-2#7+1.47 SD
2007TCU8-5#52+0.36 SD
2006TCU11-2#21+0.97 SD
2005TCU11-1#24+0.91 SD
2004TCU5-6#79-0.35 SD
2003TCU11-2#56+0.10 SD
2002TCU10-2#47+0.40 SD
2001TCU6-6#65-0.07 SD
2000TCU0-1#13+1.15 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).