George Blackburn

Head coach, 1955–1970

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

1965–1970VirginiaHead Coach

1955–1960CincinnatiHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak57Career53

1955–1970 · 12 seasonsRecord 53-60National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 57: 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 57: best five-season stretch, 1965–1969 at Virginia (23-27), taking over a losing program.
Career 53 (#441 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (53-60), 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
1970	Virginia	5-6	#82	-0.75 SD
1969	Virginia	3-7	#101	-1.37 SD
1968	Virginia	7-3	#43	+0.30 SD
1967	Virginia	5-5	#65	-0.23 SD
1966	Virginia	4-6	#64	-0.17 SD
1965	Virginia	4-6	#66	-0.24 SD
1960	Cincinnati	4-6	#90	-1.54 SD
1959	Cincinnati	5-4-1	#70	-0.40 SD
1958	Cincinnati	6-2-2	#60	-0.24 SD
1957	Cincinnati	5-4-1	#67	-0.66 SD
1956	Cincinnati	4-5	#61	-0.33 SD
1955	Cincinnati	1-6-2	#79	-0.99 SD

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