Keith Burns

Head coach

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2018–2020UTEPDirector of Recruiting/Director of Player Personnel

2000–2002TulsaHead Coach

As head coach

Rating38Peak38Career55

2000–2002 · 3 seasonsRecord 7-28National 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 38: 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 38: best five-season stretch, 2000–2002 at Tulsa (7-28), taking over a losing 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
2002	Tulsa	1-11	#112	-1.85 SD
2001	Tulsa	1-10	#116	-2.25 SD
2000	Tulsa	5-7	#88	-0.71 SD

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