Coaches / Head coach / J.R. Boone
Career
56
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak41best 5 yrs
Career56whole career
confidence
J.R. Boone
Head coach, 1973–1975
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs1
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak41Career56
1973–1975 · 3 seasonsRecord 10-24National 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 41: 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 41: best five-season stretch, 1973–1975 at Fresno State (10-24), taking over a losing 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Fresno State | 3-8 | #112 | -1.58 SD |
| 1974 | Fresno State | 5-7 | #85 | -0.73 SD |
| 1973 | Fresno State | 2-9 | #106 | -1.91 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).