Coaches / Head coach / Rex Enright
Career
54
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak59best 5 yrs
Career54whole career
confidence
Rex Enright
Head coach, 1938–1955
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs2
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak59Career54
1938–1955 · 15 seasonsRecord 64-69National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 59: 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 59: best five-season stretch, 1950–1954 at South Carolina (26-20), taking over a losing program.
- Career 54 (#418 since 1936): total accomplishment over 15 seasons (64-69), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | South Carolina | 3-6 | #82 | -1.11 SD |
| 1954 | South Carolina | 6-4 | #46 | +0.12 SD |
| 1953 | South Carolina | 7-3 | #47 | +0.07 SD |
| 1952 | South Carolina | 5-5 | #63 | -0.40 SD |
| 1951 | South Carolina | 5-4 | #50 | +0.10 SD |
| 1950 | South Carolina | 3-4-2 | #63 | -0.20 SD |
| 1949 | South Carolina | 4-6 | #62 | -0.30 SD |
| 1948 | South Carolina | 3-5 | #69 | -0.51 SD |
| 1947 | South Carolina | 6-2-1 | #57 | -0.14 SD |
| 1946 | South Carolina | 5-3 | #70 | -0.49 SD |
| 1943 | Georgia Pre-Flight | 5-1 | #26 (wartime) | +0.05 SD |
| 1942 | South Carolina | 1-7-1 | #61 | -0.26 SD |
| 1941 | South Carolina | 4-4-1 | #61 | -0.21 SD |
| 1940 | South Carolina | 3-6 | #80 | -0.88 SD |
| 1939 | South Carolina | 3-6-1 | #83 | -1.00 SD |
| 1938 | South Carolina | 6-4-1 | #53 | +0.10 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).