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55
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Rating70recent
Peak77best 5 yrs
Career55whole career
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Shawn Elliott

Run Game Coordinator/Tight Ends Coach · South Carolina

Headline rating: as position coach · tight ends. Every role he has been rated in is below.

Chemistry
Chem 64: typical64
continuity at Georgia State · early
Seasons here3
Programs2
Stints3

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
2024–2026South CarolinaRun Game Coordinator/Tight Ends Coach
2017–2024Georgia StateHead Coach
2015South CarolinaHead Coach

Chemistry

vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
How much continuity and loyalty his programs carryat Georgia State
Tenure here — Seasons as head coach at his current schoolTenure here76Staff continuity — Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked togetherStaff continuity68Player retention — Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)Player retention39Followers — Players and staff who followed him from his previous jobFollowers60QB & coordinator — How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinatorQB & coordinator69Roster continuity — Share of starters returning from one season to the next under himRoster continuity74
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
76
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
68
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
39
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
60
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
69
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
74
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

Rating59Peak59Career55
2015–2024 · 9 seasonsRecord 42-49National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
  • Rating 59: 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 59: best five-season stretch, 2019–2023 at Georgia State (32-29), taking over one of the weakest programs in major college football.
  • Career 55 (#410 since 1936): total accomplishment over 9 seasons (42-49), 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.

SeasonTeamRecordSeason rankvs contemporaries
2024Georgia State0-0#119-1.16 SD
2023Georgia State7-6#99-0.70 SD
2022Georgia State4-8#87-0.49 SD
2021Georgia State8-5#91-0.62 SD
2020Georgia State6-4#35+0.14 SD
2019Georgia State7-6#105-0.78 SD
2018Georgia State2-10#121-1.53 SD
2017Georgia State7-5#106-0.96 SD
2015South Carolina1-5#64+0.11 SD
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).