Gerry Faust

Head coach, 1981–1994

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

1987–1994AkronHead Coach

1981–1985Notre DameHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak59Career54

1981–1994 · 13 seasonsRecord 66-75National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

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 59: best five-season stretch, 1981–1985 at Notre Dame (30-26), taking over already a national power.
Career 54 (#422 since 1936): total accomplishment over 13 seasons (66-75), 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
1994	Akron	1-10	#107	-2.61 SD
1993	Akron	5-6	#99	-1.47 SD
1992	Akron	7-3-1	#89	-0.83 SD
1991	Akron	5-6	#97	-1.48 SD
1990	Akron	3-7-1	#81	-0.75 SD
1989	Akron	6-4-1	#70	-0.41 SD
1988	Akron	5-6	#88	-1.07 SD
1987	Akron	4-7	#97	-1.41 SD
1985	Notre Dame	5-6	#23	+0.93 SD
1984	Notre Dame	7-5	#25	+0.85 SD
1983	Notre Dame	7-5	#23	+0.97 SD
1982	Notre Dame	6-4-1	#27	+0.94 SD
1981	Notre Dame	5-6	#23	+0.95 SD

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