Coaches / Head coach / Jack Curtice
Career
34
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak53best 5 yrs
Career34whole career
confidence
Jack Curtice
Head coach, 1941–1969
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs5
Stints5
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
1969California-Santa BarbaraHead Coach
1941West TexasHead Coach
As head coach
Rating—Peak53Career34
1941–1969 · 19 seasonsRecord 97-87National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 53: 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 53: best five-season stretch, 1953–1957 at Utah (29-21), taking over a losing program.
- Career 34 (#510 since 1936): total accomplishment over 19 seasons (97-87), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | California-Santa Barbara | 6-4 | #93 | -1.14 SD |
| 1962 | Stanford | 5-5 | #56 | +0.11 SD |
| 1961 | Stanford | 4-6 | #68 | -0.52 SD |
| 1960 | Stanford | 0-10 | #81 | -0.97 SD |
| 1959 | Stanford | 3-7 | #52 | +0.03 SD |
| 1958 | Stanford | 2-8 | #74 | -0.63 SD |
| 1957 | Utah | 6-4 | #52 | -0.10 SD |
| 1956 | Utah | 5-5 | #68 | -0.50 SD |
| 1955 | Utah | 6-3 | #54 | -0.27 SD |
| 1954 | Utah | 4-7 | #82 | -1.14 SD |
| 1953 | Utah | 8-2 | #45 | +0.12 SD |
| 1952 | Utah | 6-3-1 | #68 | -0.61 SD |
| 1951 | Utah | 7-4 | #80 | -0.83 SD |
| 1950 | Utah | 3-4-3 | #84 | -1.05 SD |
| 1949 | UTEP | 8-2-1 | #71 | -0.60 SD |
| 1948 | UTEP | 8-2-1 | #74 | -0.79 SD |
| 1947 | UTEP | 5-3-1 | #84 | -0.96 SD |
| 1946 | UTEP | 3-6 | #90 | -1.84 SD |
| 1941 | West Texas | 8-2 | #69 | -0.58 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).