Coaches / Head coach / Jim Sweeney
Career
58
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak64best 5 yrs
Career58whole career
confidence
Jim Sweeney
Head coach, 1968–1996
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Seasons here—
Programs2
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak64Career58
1968–1996 · 27 seasonsRecord 169-134National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 64: 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 64: best five-season stretch, 1989–1993 at Fresno State (46-13), taking over a losing program.
- Career 58 (#375 since 1936): total accomplishment over 27 seasons (169-134), 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 | Fresno State | 4-7 | #85 | -0.72 SD |
| 1995 | Fresno State | 5-7 | #81 | -0.63 SD |
| 1994 | Fresno State | 5-7-1 | #64 | -0.19 SD |
| 1993 | Fresno State | 8-4 | #32 | +0.61 SD |
| 1992 | Fresno State | 9-4 | #21 | +0.89 SD |
| 1991 | Fresno State | 10-2 | #41 | +0.30 SD |
| 1990 | Fresno State | 8-2-1 | #61 | -0.15 SD |
| 1989 | Fresno State | 11-1 | #45 | +0.26 SD |
| 1988 | Fresno State | 10-2 | #52 | +0.05 SD |
| 1987 | Fresno State | 6-5 | #69 | -0.61 SD |
| 1986 | Fresno State | 9-2 | #52 | -0.00 SD |
| 1985 | Fresno State | 11-0-1 | #31 | +0.51 SD |
| 1984 | Fresno State | 6-6 | #75 | -0.55 SD |
| 1983 | Fresno State | 6-5 | #84 | -0.83 SD |
| 1982 | Fresno State | 11-1 | #43 | +0.22 SD |
| 1981 | Fresno State | 5-6 | #93 | -0.62 SD |
| 1980 | Fresno State | 5-6 | #102 | -1.03 SD |
| 1977 | Fresno State | 9-2 | #36 | +0.54 SD |
| 1976 | Fresno State | 5-6 | #81 | -0.42 SD |
| 1975 | Washington State | 3-8 | #76 | -0.34 SD |
| 1974 | Washington State | 2-9 | #77 | -0.50 SD |
| 1973 | Washington State | 5-6 | #39 | +0.34 SD |
| 1972 | Washington State | 7-4 | #33 | +0.49 SD |
| 1971 | Washington State | 4-7 | #43 | +0.07 SD |
| 1970 | Washington State | 1-10 | #69 | -0.39 SD |
| 1969 | Washington State | 1-9 | #80 | -0.69 SD |
| 1968 | Washington State | 3-6-1 | #55 | +0.15 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).