Coaches / Head coach / Jim Hess
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak50best 5 yrs
Career41whole career
confidence
Jim Hess
Head coach, 1990–1996
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
As head coach
Rating—Peak50Career41
1990–1996 · 7 seasonsRecord 22-55National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)
- Rating 50: 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 50: best five-season stretch, 1991–1995 at New Mexico State (20-35), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
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 | New Mexico State | 1-10 | #108 | -1.98 SD |
| 1995 | New Mexico State | 4-7 | #95 | -1.17 SD |
| 1994 | New Mexico State | 3-8 | #100 | -1.57 SD |
| 1993 | New Mexico State | 5-6 | #91 | -1.20 SD |
| 1992 | New Mexico State | 6-5 | #99 | -1.31 SD |
| 1991 | New Mexico State | 2-9 | #100 | -1.58 SD |
| 1990 | New Mexico State | 1-10 | #104 | -2.21 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).