Coaches / Head coach / Jim Carlen
Career
73
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak76best 5 yrs
Career73whole career
confidence
Jim Carlen
Head coach, 1966–1981
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs3
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak76Career73
1966–1981 · 16 seasonsRecord 107-69National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 76: 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 76: best five-season stretch, 1976–1980 at South Carolina (32-25), taking over an average program.
- Career 73 (#145 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (107-69), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 3 programs (South Carolina).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | South Carolina | 6-6 | #35 | +0.55 SD |
| 1980 | South Carolina | 8-4 | #19 | +1.07 SD |
| 1979 | South Carolina | 8-4 | #32 | +0.78 SD |
| 1978 | South Carolina | 5-5-1 | #40 | +0.43 SD |
| 1977 | South Carolina | 5-7 | #50 | +0.24 SD |
| 1976 | South Carolina | 6-5 | #27 | +0.73 SD |
| 1975 | South Carolina | 7-5 | #46 | +0.30 SD |
| 1974 | Texas Tech | 6-4-2 | #33 | +0.65 SD |
| 1973 | Texas Tech | 11-1 | #12 | +1.19 SD |
| 1972 | Texas Tech | 8-4 | #27 | +0.72 SD |
| 1971 | Texas Tech | 4-7 | #55 | -0.08 SD |
| 1970 | Texas Tech | 8-4 | #25 | +0.69 SD |
| 1969 | West Virginia | 10-1 | #33 | +0.46 SD |
| 1968 | West Virginia | 7-3 | #59 | +0.10 SD |
| 1967 | West Virginia | 5-4-1 | #49 | +0.12 SD |
| 1966 | West Virginia | 3-5-2 | #87 | -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).