Coaches / Head coach / Jack Elway
Career
66
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak68best 5 yrs
Career66whole career
confidence
Jack Elway
Head coach, 1979–1988
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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index in development
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Programs2
Stints2
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak68Career66
1979–1988 · 10 seasonsRecord 60-49National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 68: 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 68: best five-season stretch, 1984–1988 at Stanford (25-29), taking over an average program.
- Career 66 (#246 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (60-49), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Stanford | 3-6-2 | #24 | +0.74 SD |
| 1987 | Stanford | 5-6 | #43 | +0.24 SD |
| 1986 | Stanford | 8-4 | #15 | +1.17 SD |
| 1985 | Stanford | 4-7 | #66 | -0.34 SD |
| 1984 | Stanford | 5-6 | #57 | +0.03 SD |
| 1983 | San José State | 5-6 | #67 | -0.40 SD |
| 1982 | San José State | 8-3 | #40 | +0.32 SD |
| 1981 | San José State | 9-3 | #37 | +0.50 SD |
| 1980 | San José State | 7-4 | #60 | -0.03 SD |
| 1979 | San José State | 6-4-1 | #62 | -0.05 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).