Coaches / Position coach / Rip Scherer
Career
59
not coaching now
Rating75recent
Peak75best 5 yrs
Career59whole career
confidence
Rip Scherer
Consultant to Head Coach · UAB
Headline rating: as position coach · tight ends. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here4
Programs3
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating56Peak56Career59
1995–2000 · 6 seasonsRecord 22-44National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)
- Rating 56: 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 56: best five-season stretch, 1996–2000 at Memphis (19-36), taking over an average program.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Memphis | 4-7 | #84 | -0.55 SD |
| 1999 | Memphis | 5-6 | #37 | +0.48 SD |
| 1998 | Memphis | 2-9 | #89 | -0.86 SD |
| 1997 | Memphis | 4-7 | #79 | -0.56 SD |
| 1996 | Memphis | 4-7 | #69 | -0.30 SD |
| 1995 | Memphis | 3-8 | #80 | -0.58 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).