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Career
55
not coaching now
Rating31recent
Peak31best 5 yrs
Career55whole career
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Kenni Burns

Head coach

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

Chemistry
Chem 48: warning zone48
continuity at Kent State · early
Seasons here—
Programs3
Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2023–2024Kent StateHead Coach
2017–2022MinnesotaAssistant Head Coach / Running Backs
2016Western MichiganAssistant Coach - Running Backs/Recruiting Coordinator

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Kent State
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here50Staff continuity — Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked togetherStaff continuity48Player retention — Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)Player retention55Followers — Players and staff who followed him from his previous jobFollowers60QB & coordinator — How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinatorQB & coordinator45Roster continuity — Share of starters returning from one season to the next under himRoster continuity33
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
50
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
48
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
55
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
60
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
45
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
33
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

Rating31Peak31Career55
2023–2024 · 2 seasonsRecord 1-23National 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 31: 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.

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.

SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2024Kent State0-12#134-2.40 SD
2023Kent State1-11#133-2.46 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).