Coaches / Head coach / Jimmy Kitts
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak64best 5 yrs
Career62whole career
confidence
Jimmy Kitts
Head coach, 1936–1947
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs2
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak64Career62
1936–1947 · 7 seasonsRecord 29-38National 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 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, 1936–1938 at Rice (15-16), 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.
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | Virginia Tech | 4-5 | #67 | -0.44 SD |
| 1946 | Virginia Tech | 3-4-3 | #56 | -0.17 SD |
| 1941 | Virginia Tech | 6-4 | #76 | -0.87 SD |
| 1939 | Rice | 1-9-1 | #54 | -0.05 SD |
| 1938 | Rice | 4-6 | #60 | 0.00 SD |
| 1937 | Rice | 6-3-2 | #14 | +1.09 SD |
| 1936 | Rice | 5-7 | #31 | +0.46 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).