Coaches / Head coach / Mark Mangino
Career
65
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak74best 5 yrs
Career65whole career
confidence
Mark Mangino
Head coach, 2002–2009
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs1
Stints1
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak74Career65
2002–2009 · 8 seasonsRecord 50-48National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 74: 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 74: best five-season stretch, 2004–2008 at Kansas (37-24, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over a losing program.
- Career 65 (#258 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (50-48), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Kansas | 5-7 | #56 | +0.17 SD |
| 2008 | Kansas | 8-5 | #24 | +0.78 SD |
| 2007 | Kansas | 12-1 | #6 | +1.73 SD |
| 2006 | Kansas | 6-6 | #59 | +0.03 SD |
| 2005 | Kansas | 7-5 | #52 | +0.24 SD |
| 2004 | Kansas | 4-7 | #39 | +0.45 SD |
| 2003 | Kansas | 6-7 | #70 | -0.26 SD |
| 2002 | Kansas | 2-10 | #109 | -1.52 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).