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Form · last two seasons
52
performing to its level
Rating55recent
Peak55best 5 yrs
Career57whole career
confidence

Scotty Walden

Head Coach · UTEP

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

Chemistry
Chem 48: warning zone48
continuity at UTEP · early
Seasons here3
Programs2
Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2024–2026UTEPHead Coach
2020Southern MissHead Coach
2016–2019Southern MissCo-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat UTEP
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here59Staff continuity — Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked togetherStaff continuity48Player retention — Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)Player retention44Followers — Players and staff who followed him from his previous jobFollowers60QB & coordinator — How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinatorQB & coordinator45Roster continuity — Share of starters returning from one season to the next under himRoster continuity30
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
59
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
48
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
44
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
60
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
45
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
30
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.

As head coach

Rating55Form52▼ 3 under-performingPeak55Career57
2016–2026 · 8 seasonsRecord 35-37National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
  • Rating 55: 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 55: best five-season stretch, 2016–2023 at East Texas Baptist and Southern Miss and Austin Peay (30-18).
  • Career 57 (#379 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (35-37), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Over expectation · 2016 on20Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).

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.

Program lift20
Evaluation58
Results20
Recruiting84
Staff building30
Game management47
SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2026UTEP0-0#131-1.57 SD
2025UTEP2-10#129-1.52 SD
2024UTEP3-9#128-1.81 SD
2020Southern Miss1-3#70-1.33 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).