Tom Stidham

Head coach, 1937–1942

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

Stints2

Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1941–1945MarquetteHead Coach

1937–1940OklahomaHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak70Career68

1937–1942 · 6 seasonsRecord 38-15National 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 68: 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 70: best five-season stretch, 1937–1939 at Oklahoma (21-5), taking over an average program.
Won big at one of his 2 programs (Oklahoma).

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
1945	Marquette	5-4-1	#29 (wartime)	+0.16 SD
1944	Marquette	1-7	#51 (wartime)	-0.62 SD
1943	Marquette	3-4-1	#22 (wartime)	+0.23 SD
1942	Marquette	7-2	#31	+0.39 SD
1941	Marquette	4-5	#48	+0.15 SD
1940	Oklahoma	6-3	#46	+0.10 SD
1939	Oklahoma	6-2-1	#11	+1.27 SD
1938	Oklahoma	10-1	#18	+1.03 SD
1937	Oklahoma	5-2-2	#36	+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).