Coaches / Position coach / Sparky Woods
Career
64
not coaching now
Rating62recent
Peak62best 5 yrs
Career64whole career
confidence
Sparky Woods
Chief of Staff / Offensive Special Teams · Missouri State
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here1
Programs3
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating62Peak62Career64
1989–1993 · 5 seasonsRecord 24-28National 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 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 62: best five-season stretch, 1989–1991 at South Carolina (15-15), taking over a good 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | South Carolina | 4-7 | #49 | +0.13 SD |
| 1992 | South Carolina | 5-6 | #60 | -0.16 SD |
| 1991 | South Carolina | 3-6-2 | #56 | -0.02 SD |
| 1990 | South Carolina | 6-5 | #21 | +0.87 SD |
| 1989 | South Carolina | 6-4-1 | #45 | +0.26 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).