Jim Harkema

Head coach, 1983–1992

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

1983–1992Eastern MichiganHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak51Career32

1983–1992 · 10 seasonsRecord 41-57National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 51: 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 51: best five-season stretch, 1985–1989 at Eastern Michigan (33-20), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
Career 32 (#514 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (41-57), 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
1992	Eastern Michigan	0-4	#106	-2.31 SD
1991	Eastern Michigan	3-7-1	#92	-1.18 SD
1990	Eastern Michigan	2-9	#101	-1.73 SD
1989	Eastern Michigan	7-3-1	#85	-0.92 SD
1988	Eastern Michigan	6-3-1	#90	-1.22 SD
1987	Eastern Michigan	10-2	#61	-0.22 SD
1986	Eastern Michigan	6-5	#97	-1.50 SD
1985	Eastern Michigan	4-7	#100	-1.58 SD
1984	Eastern Michigan	2-7-2	#99	-1.69 SD
1983	Eastern Michigan	1-10	#105	-2.25 SD

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