Coaches / Head coach / Joe Morrison
Career
60
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak66best 5 yrs
Career60whole career
confidence
Joe Morrison
Head coach, 1973–1988
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Seasons here—
Programs3
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak66Career60
1973–1988 · 16 seasonsRecord 101-72National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 66: 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 66: best five-season stretch, 1984–1988 at South Carolina (34-22, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over a good program.
- Career 60 (#347 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (101-72), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | South Carolina | 8-4 | #44 | +0.20 SD |
| 1987 | South Carolina | 8-4 | #5 | +1.88 SD |
| 1986 | South Carolina | 3-6-2 | #31 | +0.59 SD |
| 1985 | South Carolina | 5-6 | #65 | -0.32 SD |
| 1984 | South Carolina | 10-2 | #13 | +1.11 SD |
| 1983 | South Carolina | 5-6 | #43 | +0.21 SD |
| 1982 | New Mexico | 10-1 | #36 | +0.42 SD |
| 1981 | New Mexico | 4-7-1 | #69 | -0.16 SD |
| 1980 | New Mexico | 4-7 | #92 | -0.72 SD |
| 1979 | Chattanooga | 9-2 | #73 | -0.30 SD |
| 1978 | Chattanooga | 7-3-1 | #57 | +0.08 SD |
| 1977 | Chattanooga | 9-1-1 | #93 | -0.82 SD |
| 1976 | Chattanooga | 6-4-1 | #66 | -0.10 SD |
| 1975 | Chattanooga | 5-5-1 | #107 | -1.37 SD |
| 1974 | Chattanooga | 4-7 | #106 | -1.44 SD |
| 1973 | Chattanooga | 4-7 | #100 | -1.40 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).