Rey Dempsey

Head coach, 1976–1985

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

1984–1985MemphisHead Coach

1976–1983Southern IllinoisHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak61Career52

1976–1985 · 10 seasonsRecord 61-49National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 61: 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 61: best five-season stretch, 1981–1985 at Southern Illinois and Memphis (33-22).
Career 52 (#454 since 1936): total accomplishment over 10 seasons (61-49), 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
1985	Memphis	2-7-2	#57	-0.10 SD
1984	Memphis	5-5-1	#45	+0.26 SD
1983	Southern Illinois	13-1	#51	-0.04 SD
1982	Southern Illinois	6-5	#98	-1.30 SD
1981	Southern Illinois	7-4	#64	-0.04 SD
1980	Southern Illinois	3-8	#112	-1.30 SD
1979	Southern Illinois	8-3	#89	-0.65 SD
1978	Southern Illinois	7-4	#111	-1.36 SD
1977	Southern Illinois	3-8	#119	-1.90 SD
1976	Southern Illinois	7-4	#103	-1.15 SD

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