Coaches / Head coach / Gene McEver
Career
52
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak34best 5 yrs
Career52whole career
confidence
Gene McEver
Head coach, 1936–1942
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs2
Stints2
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
1936–1942DavidsonHead Coach
As head coach
Rating—Peak34Career52
1936–1942 · 7 seasonsRecord 21-42National 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 34: 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 34: best five-season stretch, 1936–1938 at Davidson (11-18), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | North Carolina | 1-7-1 | #54 (wartime) | -0.75 SD |
| 1942 | Davidson | 2-6-1 | #71 | -0.66 SD |
| 1941 | Davidson | 1-6-3 | #85 | -1.45 SD |
| 1940 | Davidson | 5-5 | #89 | -1.69 SD |
| 1939 | Davidson | 2-7 | #86 | -1.10 SD |
| 1938 | Davidson | 4-6 | #89 | -1.41 SD |
| 1937 | Davidson | 2-8 | #84 | -1.25 SD |
| 1936 | Davidson | 5-4 | #55 | +0.07 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).