Coaches / Head coach / Mack Brown
Career
89
not coaching now
Rating77recent
Peak87best 5 yrs
Career89whole career
confidence
Mack Brown
Head coach
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
63
continuity at North Carolina · early
Seasons here—
Programs4
Stints5
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
Chemistry
vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
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
Rating77Peak87Career89
1983–2024 · 36 seasonsRecord 288-155National titles 1Great seasons 7 (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 87: best five-season stretch, 2005–2009 at Texas (58-8, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength, 1 national title), taking over an average program.
- Career 89 (#14 since 1936): total accomplishment over 36 seasons (288-155), 1 national title, 7 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 4 programs (Texas).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | North Carolina | 6-6 | #65 | +0.06 SD |
| 2023 | North Carolina | 8-5 | #27 | +0.80 SD |
| 2022 | North Carolina | 9-5 | #50 | +0.40 SD |
| 2021 | North Carolina | 6-7 | #50 | +0.44 SD |
| 2020 | North Carolina | 8-4 | — | — |
| 2019 | North Carolina | 7-6 | #34 | +0.58 SD |
| 2013 | Texas | 8-5 | #28 | +0.69 SD |
| 2012 | Texas | 9-4 | #17 | +1.06 SD |
| 2011 | Texas | 8-5 | #19 | +1.02 SD |
| 2010 | Texas | 5-7 | #55 | +0.09 SD |
| 2009 | Texas | 13-1 | #3 | +2.02 SD |
| 2008 | Texas | 12-1 | #3 | +2.33 SD |
| 2007 | Texas | 10-3 | #20 | +0.95 SD |
| 2006 | Texas | 10-3 | #13 | +1.25 SD |
| 2005 | Texas | 13-0 | #2 | +2.38 SD |
| 2004 | Texas | 11-1 | #8 | +1.51 SD |
| 2003 | Texas | 10-3 | #10 | +1.43 SD |
| 2002 | Texas | 11-2 | #5 | +1.62 SD |
| 2001 | Texas | 11-2 | #3 | +1.77 SD |
| 2000 | Texas | 9-3 | #9 | +1.35 SD |
| 1999 | Texas | 9-5 | #24 | +0.80 SD |
| 1998 | Texas | 9-3 | #16 | +1.18 SD |
| 1997 | North Carolina | 10-1 | #9 | +1.48 SD |
| 1996 | North Carolina | 10-2 | #6 | +1.54 SD |
| 1995 | North Carolina | 7-5 | #38 | +0.41 SD |
| 1994 | North Carolina | 8-4 | #39 | +0.38 SD |
| 1993 | North Carolina | 10-3 | #25 | +0.77 SD |
| 1992 | North Carolina | 9-3 | #31 | +0.54 SD |
| 1991 | North Carolina | 7-4 | #38 | +0.37 SD |
| 1990 | North Carolina | 6-4-1 | #32 | +0.53 SD |
| 1989 | North Carolina | 1-10 | #91 | -1.18 SD |
| 1988 | North Carolina | 1-10 | #76 | -0.60 SD |
| 1987 | Tulane | 6-6 | #47 | +0.13 SD |
| 1986 | Tulane | 4-7 | #85 | -0.95 SD |
| 1985 | Tulane | 1-10 | #87 | -1.10 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).