Coaches / Head coach / Jim Miller
Career
57
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak56best 5 yrs
Career57whole career
confidence
Jim Miller
Head coach, 1959–1967
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs2
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
1959–1961Detroit MercyHead Coach
As head coach
Rating—Peak56Career57
1959–1967 · 9 seasonsRecord 52-34National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 56: 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 56: best five-season stretch, 1961–1965 at Detroit Mercy and Boston College (31-16).
- Career 57 (#386 since 1936): total accomplishment over 9 seasons (52-34), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Boston College | 4-6 | #92 | -1.04 SD |
| 1966 | Boston College | 4-6 | #98 | -1.37 SD |
| 1965 | Boston College | 6-4 | #52 | +0.05 SD |
| 1964 | Boston College | 6-3 | #57 | +0.08 SD |
| 1963 | Boston College | 6-3 | #61 | -0.17 SD |
| 1962 | Boston College | 8-2 | #35 | +0.50 SD |
| 1961 | Detroit Mercy | 5-4 | #69 | -0.56 SD |
| 1960 | Detroit Mercy | 7-2 | #75 | -0.63 SD |
| 1959 | Detroit Mercy | 6-4 | #71 | -0.50 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).