Jim Colletto

Head coach, 1975–1996

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

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1991–1996PurdueHead Coach

1975–1979Cal State FullertonHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak68Career53

1975–1996 · 11 seasonsRecord 37-81National 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, 1991–1995 at Purdue (17-35), taking over a losing program.
Career 53 (#440 since 1936): total accomplishment over 11 seasons (37-81), 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	Purdue	3-8	#61	-0.12 SD
1995	Purdue	4-6-1	#19	+0.88 SD
1994	Purdue	4-5-2	#33	+0.49 SD
1993	Purdue	1-10	#63	-0.21 SD
1992	Purdue	4-7	#57	-0.03 SD
1991	Purdue	4-7	#58	-0.12 SD
1979	Cal State Fullerton	3-8	#112	-1.31 SD
1978	Cal State Fullerton	5-7	#78	-0.41 SD
1977	Cal State Fullerton	4-7	#107	-1.39 SD
1976	Cal State Fullerton	3-7-1	#117	-2.13 SD
1975	Cal State Fullerton	2-9	#120	-2.17 SD

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