Tony Knap

Head coach, 1963–1981

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

Chemistry

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1978–1981UNLVHead Coach

1963–1966Utah StateHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak66Career64

1963–1981 · 8 seasonsRecord 54-29National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 63: 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 66: best five-season stretch, 1963–1965 at Utah State (21-8), taking over an average program.
Career 64 (#274 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (54-29), 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
1981	UNLV	6-6	#96	-0.70 SD
1980	UNLV	7-4	#44	+0.33 SD
1979	UNLV	9-1-2	#58	-0.02 SD
1978	UNLV	7-4	#54	+0.10 SD
1966	Utah State	4-6	#65	-0.19 SD
1965	Utah State	8-2	#35	+0.47 SD
1964	Utah State	5-4-1	#27	+0.73 SD
1963	Utah State	8-2	#48	+0.30 SD

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