Coaches / Head coach / Jerry Pettibone
Career
51
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak57best 5 yrs
Career51whole career
confidence
Jerry Pettibone
Head coach, 1985–1996
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
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak57Career51
1985–1996 · 12 seasonsRecord 46-84National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 57: 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 57: best five-season stretch, 1990–1994 at Northern Illinois and Oregon State (16-38).
- Career 51 (#460 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (46-84), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Oregon State | 2-9 | #83 | -0.65 SD |
| 1995 | Oregon State | 1-10 | #89 | -0.84 SD |
| 1994 | Oregon State | 4-7 | #44 | +0.23 SD |
| 1993 | Oregon State | 4-7 | #40 | +0.28 SD |
| 1992 | Oregon State | 1-9-1 | #78 | -0.63 SD |
| 1991 | Oregon State | 1-10 | #89 | -0.97 SD |
| 1990 | Northern Illinois | 6-5 | #59 | -0.14 SD |
| 1989 | Northern Illinois | 9-2 | #62 | -0.26 SD |
| 1988 | Northern Illinois | 7-4 | #92 | -1.25 SD |
| 1987 | Northern Illinois | 5-5-1 | #80 | -0.79 SD |
| 1986 | Northern Illinois | 2-9 | #99 | -1.57 SD |
| 1985 | Northern Illinois | 4-7 | #91 | -1.30 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).