Les Miles

Head coach

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

Chemistry

continuity at Kansas · early

Seasons here—

Programs3

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2019–2020KansasHead Coach

2005–2016LSUHead Coach

2001–2004Oklahoma StateHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical

How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Kansas

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

Rating77Peak78Career82

2001–2020 · 18 seasonsRecord 145-73National titles 1Great seasons 4 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 77: 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 78: best five-season stretch, 2011–2015 at LSU (50-15, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over a good program.
Career 82 (#46 since 1936): total accomplishment over 18 seasons (145-73), 1 national title, 4 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 3 programs (LSU).

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
2020	Kansas	0-9	#68	-1.29 SD
2019	Kansas	3-9	#85	-0.39 SD
2016	LSU	2-2	#6	+1.72 SD
2015	LSU	9-3	#12	+1.26 SD
2014	LSU	8-5	#21	+1.08 SD
2013	LSU	10-3	#13	+1.35 SD
2012	LSU	10-3	#7	+1.51 SD
2011	LSU	13-1	#2	+2.42 SD
2010	LSU	11-2	#12	+1.29 SD
2009	LSU	9-4	#16	+1.18 SD
2008	LSU	8-5	#31	+0.58 SD
2007	LSU	12-2	#2	+1.87 SD
2006	LSU	11-2	#3	+1.87 SD
2005	LSU	11-2	#9	+1.28 SD
2004	Oklahoma State	7-5	#26	+0.82 SD
2003	Oklahoma State	9-4	#31	+0.69 SD
2002	Oklahoma State	8-5	#41	+0.50 SD
2001	Oklahoma State	4-7	#69	-0.10 SD

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