Coaches / Head coach / Thomas Nugent
Career
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not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak58best 5 yrs
Career56whole career
confidence
Thomas Nugent
Head coach, 1949–1965
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs3
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Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak58Career56
1949–1965 · 16 seasonsRecord 84-75National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 58: 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 58: best five-season stretch, 1958–1962 at Florida State and Maryland (31-20).
- Career 56 (#395 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (84-75), 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.
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Maryland | 4-6 | #68 | -0.27 SD |
| 1964 | Maryland | 5-5 | #45 | +0.34 SD |
| 1963 | Maryland | 3-7 | #65 | -0.29 SD |
| 1962 | Maryland | 6-4 | #34 | +0.51 SD |
| 1961 | Maryland | 7-3 | #43 | +0.20 SD |
| 1960 | Maryland | 6-4 | #60 | -0.17 SD |
| 1959 | Maryland | 5-5 | #54 | +0.01 SD |
| 1958 | Florida State | 7-4 | #38 | +0.29 SD |
| 1957 | Florida State | 4-6 | #65 | -0.61 SD |
| 1956 | Florida State | 5-4-1 | #39 | +0.33 SD |
| 1955 | Florida State | 5-5 | #73 | -0.78 SD |
| 1954 | Florida State | 8-4 | #63 | -0.41 SD |
| 1953 | Florida State | 5-5 | — | — |
| 1952 | VMI | 3-6-1 | #86 | -1.67 SD |
| 1951 | VMI | 7-3 | #61 | -0.16 SD |
| 1950 | VMI | 6-4 | #69 | -0.46 SD |
| 1949 | VMI | 3-5-1 | #80 | -0.88 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).