Coaches / Head coach / Michael Desormeaux
Form · last two seasons
56
performing to its level
Rating57recent
Peak57best 5 yrs
Career60whole career
confidence
Michael Desormeaux
Head Coach · Louisiana
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
75
continuity at Louisiana · early
Seasons here6
Programs1
Stints3
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
Rating57Form56≈ as usualPeak57Career60
2021–2026 · 6 seasonsRecord 29-25National 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 57: 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 57: best five-season stretch, 2021–2023 at Louisiana (13-14), taking over an average program.
Over expectation · 2016 on67Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).
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.
Program lift67
Evaluation92
Results62
Recruiting69
Staff building69
Game management56
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Louisiana | 0-0 | #83 | -0.35 SD |
| 2025 | Louisiana | 6-7 | #111 | -1.00 SD |
| 2024 | Louisiana | 10-4 | #72 | -0.15 SD |
| 2023 | Louisiana | 6-7 | #95 | -0.54 SD |
| 2022 | Louisiana | 6-7 | #71 | -0.16 SD |
| 2021 | Louisiana | 1-0 | #45 | +0.53 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).