Joey McGuire

Head Coach · Texas Tech

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

Chemistry

continuity at Texas Tech · early

Seasons here5

Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2022–2026Texas TechHead Coach

2017–2021BaylorAssociate Head Coach (Outside Linebackers)

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical

How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Texas Tech

Tenure here

Seasons as head coach at his current school

Staff continuity

Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together

Player retention

Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)

Followers

Players and staff who followed him from his previous job

QB & coordinator

How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator

Roster continuity

Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him

Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.

As head coach

Rating78Form79≈ as usualPeak79Career69

2022–2026 · 5 seasonsRecord 35-18National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

Rating 78: 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 79: best five-season stretch, 2022–2026 at Texas Tech (35-18, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
All of it at one program (Texas Tech) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.

Over expectation · 2016 on86Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).

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.

Program lift79

Evaluation67

Results83

Recruiting77

Staff building80

Game management79

Season	Team	Record	Season rank	vs contemporaries
2026	Texas Tech	0-0	#15	+1.34 SD
2025	Texas Tech	12-2	#4	+1.92 SD
2024	Texas Tech	8-5	#54	+0.35 SD
2023	Texas Tech	7-6	#35	+0.66 SD
2022	Texas Tech	8-5	#25	+0.92 SD

Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).