Coaches / Head coach / Paul Dietzel
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak78best 5 yrs
Career75whole career
confidence
Paul Dietzel
Head coach, 1955–1974
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs3
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak78Career75
1955–1974 · 20 seasonsRecord 109-95National titles 1Great seasons 3 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 66: 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 78: best five-season stretch, 1957–1961 at LSU (40-12, 3 top-10 seasons by team strength, 1 national title), taking over an average program.
- Career 75 (#122 since 1936): total accomplishment over 20 seasons (109-95), 1 national title, 3 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 3 programs (LSU).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | South Carolina | 4-7 | #75 | -0.44 SD |
| 1973 | South Carolina | 7-4 | #45 | +0.27 SD |
| 1972 | South Carolina | 4-7 | #66 | -0.33 SD |
| 1971 | South Carolina | 6-5 | #44 | +0.06 SD |
| 1970 | South Carolina | 4-6-1 | #47 | +0.15 SD |
| 1969 | South Carolina | 7-4 | #58 | -0.15 SD |
| 1968 | South Carolina | 4-6 | #44 | +0.28 SD |
| 1967 | South Carolina | 5-5 | #55 | -0.01 SD |
| 1966 | South Carolina | 1-9 | #63 | -0.17 SD |
| 1965 | Army | 4-5-1 | #61 | -0.16 SD |
| 1964 | Army | 4-6 | #67 | -0.18 SD |
| 1963 | Army | 7-3 | #36 | +0.60 SD |
| 1962 | Army | 6-4 | #55 | +0.14 SD |
| 1961 | LSU | 10-1 | #4 | +1.85 SD |
| 1960 | LSU | 5-4-1 | #21 | +0.91 SD |
| 1959 | LSU | 9-2 | #3 | +1.54 SD |
| 1958 | LSU | 11-0 | #1 | +1.81 SD |
| 1957 | LSU | 5-5 | #16 | +0.89 SD |
| 1956 | LSU | 3-7 | #50 | +0.02 SD |
| 1955 | LSU | 3-5-2 | #18 | +0.81 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).