Coaches / Position coach / Jack Bicknell
Career
58
not coaching now
Rating84recent
Peak90best 5 yrs
Career58whole career
confidence
Jack Bicknell
Offensive Line · Sam Houston
Headline rating: as position coach · offensive line. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here1
Programs9
Stints11
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating54Peak69Career58
1981–2006 · 18 seasonsRecord 102-107National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 54: 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 69: best five-season stretch, 1981–1984 at Boston College (32-14, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
- Career 58 (#371 since 1936): total accomplishment over 18 seasons (102-107), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Louisiana Tech | 3-10 | #118 | -2.00 SD |
| 2005 | Louisiana Tech | 7-4 | #79 | -0.41 SD |
| 2004 | Louisiana Tech | 6-6 | #76 | -0.27 SD |
| 2003 | Louisiana Tech | 5-7 | #88 | -0.76 SD |
| 2002 | Louisiana Tech | 4-8 | #99 | -1.10 SD |
| 2001 | Louisiana Tech | 7-5 | #78 | -0.37 SD |
| 2000 | Louisiana Tech | 3-9 | #94 | -0.91 SD |
| 1999 | Louisiana Tech | 8-3 | #47 | +0.22 SD |
| 1990 | Boston College | 4-7 | #76 | -0.52 SD |
| 1989 | Boston College | 2-9 | #65 | -0.30 SD |
| 1988 | Boston College | 3-8 | #66 | -0.23 SD |
| 1987 | Boston College | 5-6 | #39 | +0.31 SD |
| 1986 | Boston College | 9-3 | #24 | +0.74 SD |
| 1985 | Boston College | 4-8 | #62 | -0.21 SD |
| 1984 | Boston College | 10-2 | #4 | +1.44 SD |
| 1983 | Boston College | 9-3 | #30 | +0.81 SD |
| 1982 | Boston College | 8-3-1 | #33 | +0.57 SD |
| 1981 | Boston College | 5-6 | #63 | -0.02 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).