Coaches / Head coach / Murray Warmath
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak76best 5 yrs
Career78whole career
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Murray Warmath
Head coach, 1952–1971
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak76Career78
1952–1971 · 20 seasonsRecord 97-84National titles 1Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 73: 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 76: best five-season stretch, 1960–1964 at Minnesota (30-16, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength, 1 national title), taking over an average program.
- Career 78 (#75 since 1936): total accomplishment over 20 seasons (97-84), 1 national title, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 2 programs (Minnesota).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Minnesota | 4-7 | #46 | +0.03 SD |
| 1970 | Minnesota | 3-6-1 | #43 | +0.22 SD |
| 1969 | Minnesota | 4-5-1 | #39 | +0.21 SD |
| 1968 | Minnesota | 6-4 | #32 | +0.54 SD |
| 1967 | Minnesota | 8-2 | #35 | +0.46 SD |
| 1966 | Minnesota | 4-5-1 | #71 | -0.35 SD |
| 1965 | Minnesota | 5-4-1 | #24 | +0.73 SD |
| 1964 | Minnesota | 5-4 | #20 | +0.81 SD |
| 1963 | Minnesota | 3-6 | #35 | +0.66 SD |
| 1962 | Minnesota | 6-2-1 | #6 | +1.43 SD |
| 1961 | Minnesota | 8-2 | #9 | +1.27 SD |
| 1960 | Minnesota | 8-2 | #4 | +1.50 SD |
| 1959 | Minnesota | 2-7 | #51 | +0.04 SD |
| 1958 | Minnesota | 1-8 | #37 | +0.29 SD |
| 1957 | Minnesota | 4-5 | #28 | +0.67 SD |
| 1956 | Minnesota | 6-1-2 | #11 | +1.13 SD |
| 1955 | Minnesota | 3-6 | #46 | +0.11 SD |
| 1954 | Minnesota | 7-2 | #23 | +0.81 SD |
| 1953 | Mississippi State | 5-2-3 | #14 | +1.16 SD |
| 1952 | Mississippi State | 5-4 | #17 | +0.86 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).