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Jim Shofner

Head coach, 1974–1976

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
1974–1976TCUHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak50Career58
1974–1976 · 3 seasonsRecord 2-31National 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, 1974–1976 at TCU (2-31), taking over an average program.

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.

SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
1976TCU0-11#105-1.27 SD
1975TCU1-10#86-0.57 SD
1974TCU1-10#98-1.16 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).