Coaches / Head coach / Jerry Claiborne
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak81best 5 yrs
Career76whole career
confidence
Jerry Claiborne
Head coach, 1961–1989
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs3
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak81Career76
1961–1989 · 28 seasonsRecord 179-122National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 73: 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 81: best five-season stretch, 1973–1977 at Maryland (44-15, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over a losing program.
- Career 76 (#107 since 1936): total accomplishment over 28 seasons (179-122), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 3 programs (Maryland).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Kentucky | 6-5 | #51 | +0.07 SD |
| 1988 | Kentucky | 5-6 | #44 | +0.20 SD |
| 1987 | Kentucky | 5-6 | #25 | +0.65 SD |
| 1986 | Kentucky | 5-5-1 | #42 | +0.23 SD |
| 1985 | Kentucky | 5-6 | #49 | +0.16 SD |
| 1984 | Kentucky | 9-3 | #30 | +0.69 SD |
| 1983 | Kentucky | 6-5-1 | #40 | +0.33 SD |
| 1982 | Kentucky | 0-10-1 | #76 | -0.66 SD |
| 1981 | Maryland | 4-6-1 | #28 | +0.83 SD |
| 1980 | Maryland | 8-4 | #27 | +0.83 SD |
| 1979 | Maryland | 7-4 | #26 | +0.89 SD |
| 1978 | Maryland | 9-3 | #23 | +0.95 SD |
| 1977 | Maryland | 8-4 | #28 | +0.76 SD |
| 1976 | Maryland | 11-1 | #11 | +1.44 SD |
| 1975 | Maryland | 9-2-1 | #23 | +0.97 SD |
| 1974 | Maryland | 8-4 | #6 | +1.59 SD |
| 1973 | Maryland | 8-4 | #19 | +0.95 SD |
| 1972 | Maryland | 5-5-1 | #55 | -0.05 SD |
| 1970 | Virginia Tech | 5-6 | #89 | -0.93 SD |
| 1969 | Virginia Tech | 4-5-1 | #54 | -0.02 SD |
| 1968 | Virginia Tech | 7-4 | #34 | +0.50 SD |
| 1967 | Virginia Tech | 7-3 | #42 | +0.33 SD |
| 1966 | Virginia Tech | 8-2-1 | #35 | +0.44 SD |
| 1965 | Virginia Tech | 7-3 | #69 | -0.38 SD |
| 1964 | Virginia Tech | 6-4 | #59 | +0.02 SD |
| 1963 | Virginia Tech | 8-2 | #51 | +0.28 SD |
| 1962 | Virginia Tech | 5-5 | #72 | -0.42 SD |
| 1961 | Virginia Tech | 4-5 | #80 | -0.94 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).