John Bridgers

Head coach, 1959–1968

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1959–1968BaylorHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak68Career70

1959–1968 · 10 seasonsRecord 49-53National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 68: 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 68: best five-season stretch, 1960–1964 at Baylor (31-22, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a good program.
Career 70 (#190 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (49-53), 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
1968	Baylor	3-7	#62	-0.14 SD
1967	Baylor	1-8-1	#78	-0.47 SD
1966	Baylor	5-5	#23	+0.76 SD
1965	Baylor	5-5	#33	+0.51 SD
1964	Baylor	5-5	#43	+0.35 SD
1963	Baylor	8-3	#8	+1.30 SD
1962	Baylor	4-6	#46	+0.21 SD
1961	Baylor	6-5	#28	+0.66 SD
1960	Baylor	8-3	#10	+1.23 SD
1959	Baylor	4-6	#38	+0.36 SD

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