Steve Sloan

Head coach, 1973–1986

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

Chemistry

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index in development

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Programs4

Stints4

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1983–1986DukeHead Coach

1978–1982Ole MissHead Coach

1975–1977Texas TechHead Coach

1973–1974VanderbiltHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak62Career65

1973–1986 · 14 seasonsRecord 68-86National 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 62: best five-season stretch, 1973–1976 at Vanderbilt and Texas Tech (28-16).
Career 65 (#272 since 1936): total accomplishment over 14 seasons (68-86), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
Won big at one of his 4 programs (Texas Tech).

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
1986	Duke	4-7	#73	-0.56 SD
1985	Duke	4-7	#68	-0.46 SD
1984	Duke	2-9	#81	-0.91 SD
1983	Duke	3-8	#68	-0.42 SD
1982	Ole Miss	4-7	#45	+0.18 SD
1981	Ole Miss	4-6-1	#69	-0.16 SD
1980	Ole Miss	3-8	#41	+0.36 SD
1979	Ole Miss	4-7	#57	+0.06 SD
1978	Ole Miss	5-6	#64	-0.09 SD
1977	Texas Tech	7-5	#32	+0.63 SD
1976	Texas Tech	10-2	#17	+1.18 SD
1975	Texas Tech	6-5	#27	+0.81 SD
1974	Vanderbilt	7-3-2	#23	+0.89 SD
1973	Vanderbilt	5-6	#72	-0.39 SD

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