John Barnhill

Head coach, 1941–1949

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1946–1949ArkansasHead Coach

1944–1945TennesseeHead Coach

1941–1942TennesseeHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak74Career70

1941–1949 · 6 seasonsRecord 39-20National 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 74: 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 74: best five-season stretch, 1942–1949 at Tennessee and Arkansas (31-18, 1 top-10 season by team strength).
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Arkansas).

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
1949	Arkansas	5-5	#41	+0.27 SD
1948	Arkansas	5-5	#37	+0.45 SD
1947	Arkansas	6-4-1	#22	+0.82 SD
1946	Arkansas	6-3-2	#27	+0.66 SD
1945	Tennessee	8-1	#11 (wartime)	+1.23 SD
1944	Tennessee	7-1-1	#20 (wartime)	+0.46 SD
1942	Tennessee	9-1-1	#6	+1.44 SD
1941	Tennessee	8-2	#16	+0.90 SD

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