Robert Dobbs

Head coach, 1955–1972

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

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1965–1972UTEPHead Coach

1955–1960TulsaHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak68Career55

1955–1972 · 14 seasonsRecord 71-63National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 60: 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 68: best five-season stretch, 1965–1969 at UTEP (29-20), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
Career 55 (#409 since 1936): total accomplishment over 14 seasons (71-63), 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
1972	UTEP	1-5	#98	-1.79 SD
1971	UTEP	5-6	#88	-0.90 SD
1970	UTEP	6-4	#70	-0.41 SD
1969	UTEP	4-6	#81	-0.69 SD
1968	UTEP	4-5-1	#66	-0.31 SD
1967	UTEP	7-2-1	#11	+1.36 SD
1966	UTEP	6-4	#26	+0.65 SD
1965	UTEP	8-3	#49	+0.13 SD
1960	Tulsa	5-5	#78	-0.80 SD
1959	Tulsa	5-5	#69	-0.37 SD
1958	Tulsa	7-3	#43	+0.21 SD
1957	Tulsa	4-6	#77	-0.88 SD
1956	Tulsa	7-2-1	#55	-0.18 SD
1955	Tulsa	2-7-1	#77	-0.91 SD

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