Coaches / Head coach / Sylvester Croom
Career
60
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak57best 5 yrs
Career60whole career
confidence
Sylvester Croom
Head coach, 2004–2008
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs1
Stints1
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak57Career60
2004–2008 · 5 seasonsRecord 21-38National 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 57: 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 57: best five-season stretch, 2004–2007 at Mississippi State (17-30), taking over an average 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Mississippi State | 4-8 | #87 | -0.68 SD |
| 2007 | Mississippi State | 8-5 | #48 | +0.38 SD |
| 2006 | Mississippi State | 3-9 | #76 | -0.38 SD |
| 2005 | Mississippi State | 3-8 | #95 | -0.80 SD |
| 2004 | Mississippi State | 3-8 | #82 | -0.47 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).