Ralph Friedgen

Head coach, 2001–2010

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

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Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2001–2010MarylandHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak78Career71

2001–2010 · 10 seasonsRecord 75-50National titles 0Great 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 78: best five-season stretch, 2001–2003 at Maryland (31-8, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over an average program.
Career 71 (#179 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (75-50), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
All of it at one program (Maryland) — unproven elsewhere; historically about half of a coach's lift carries to a new job.

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
2010	Maryland	9-4	#37	+0.56 SD
2009	Maryland	2-10	#82	-0.46 SD
2008	Maryland	8-5	#54	+0.14 SD
2007	Maryland	6-7	#42	+0.52 SD
2006	Maryland	9-4	#58	+0.06 SD
2005	Maryland	5-6	#41	+0.41 SD
2004	Maryland	5-6	#49	+0.28 SD
2003	Maryland	10-3	#9	+1.44 SD
2002	Maryland	11-3	#14	+1.17 SD
2001	Maryland	10-2	#13	+1.05 SD

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