Mike Jinks

Head coach

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

Chemistry

continuity at Bowling Green · early

Seasons here—

Programs3

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2022–2023HoustonAssistant Head Coach – Running Backs – Liaison to the THSCA

2019–2021USCRunning Backs

2016–2018Bowling GreenHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical

How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Bowling Green

Tenure here

Seasons as head coach at his current school

Staff continuity

Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together

soon

Player retention

Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)

soon

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

Rating50Peak50Career58

2016–2018 · 3 seasonsRecord 7-24National 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 50: 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 50: best five-season stretch, 2016–2018 at Bowling Green (7-24), taking over an average program.

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
2018	Bowling Green	1-6	#124	-1.66 SD
2017	Bowling Green	2-10	#111	-1.09 SD
2016	Bowling Green	4-8	#107	-1.03 SD

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