Rick Neuheisel

Head coach, 1995–2011

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

Chemistry

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Programs3

Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

2008–2011UCLAHead Coach

1999–2002WashingtonHead Coach

1995–1998ColoradoHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak64Career73

1995–2011 · 12 seasonsRecord 87-58National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 62: 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 64: best five-season stretch, 1995–1997 at Colorado (25-10, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength), taking over already a national power.
Career 73 (#147 since 1936): total accomplishment over 12 seasons (87-58), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; 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
2011	UCLA	6-6	#63	-0.09 SD
2010	UCLA	4-8	#55	+0.09 SD
2009	UCLA	7-6	#49	+0.25 SD
2008	UCLA	4-8	#78	-0.49 SD
2002	Washington	7-6	#28	+0.75 SD
2001	Washington	8-4	#43	+0.47 SD
2000	Washington	11-1	#10	+1.33 SD
1999	Washington	7-5	#40	+0.42 SD
1998	Colorado	8-4	#28	+0.72 SD
1997	Colorado	5-6	#34	+0.56 SD
1996	Colorado	10-2	#9	+1.45 SD
1995	Colorado	10-2	#8	+1.50 SD

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