Jack Mitchell

Head coach, 1953–1966

Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.

Chemistry

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index in development

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Programs3

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1958–1966KansasHead Coach

1955–1957ArkansasHead Coach

1953–1954Wichita StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak77Career70

1953–1966 · 14 seasonsRecord 74-59National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 72: 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 77: best five-season stretch, 1959–1963 at Kansas (30-18, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a losing program.
Career 70 (#194 since 1936): total accomplishment over 14 seasons (74-59), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 3 programs (Kansas).

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
1966	Kansas	2-7-1	#82	-0.66 SD
1965	Kansas	2-8	#82	-0.69 SD
1964	Kansas	6-4	#53	+0.18 SD
1963	Kansas	5-5	#25	+0.87 SD
1962	Kansas	6-3-1	#26	+0.66 SD
1961	Kansas	7-3-1	#7	+1.48 SD
1960	Kansas	7-2-1	#6	+1.41 SD
1959	Kansas	5-5	#30	+0.52 SD
1958	Kansas	4-5-1	#69	-0.42 SD
1957	Arkansas	6-4	#26	+0.72 SD
1956	Arkansas	6-4	#35	+0.42 SD
1955	Arkansas	5-4-1	#22	+0.76 SD
1954	Wichita State	9-1	#44	+0.17 SD
1953	Wichita State	4-4-1	#74	-0.82 SD

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