Coaches / Head coach / Tony Sanchez
Form · last two seasons
52
▼ Underperforming -6
Rating58recent
Peak88best 5 yrs
Career62whole career
confidence
Tony Sanchez
Head Coach · New Mexico State
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
60
continuity at New Mexico State · early
Seasons here3
Programs2
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
Chemistry
vs every head coach since 2016 · 62 = typical
Tenure here
Seasons as head coach at his current school
Staff continuity
Seasons he and his offensive coordinator have worked together
Player retention
Players kept vs. the league norm for similar rosters (fewer transfers out)
Followers
Players and staff who followed him from his previous job
QB & coordinator
How long his quarterbacks have played for the same coordinator
Roster continuity
Share of starters returning from one season to the next under him
Dashed gold ring on the radar = average (62). Chemistry scale: 62 is typical, 20-50 is a warning sign, under 10 is a collapse.
As head coach
Rating58Form52▼ 6 under-performingPeak88Career62
2004–2026 · 19 seasonsRecord 147-83National titles 6Great seasons 6 (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 88: best five-season stretch, 2009–2013 at Bishop Gorman (70-5, 5 national titles), taking over an average program.
- Career 62 (#303 since 1936): total accomplishment over 19 seasons (147-83), 6 national titles, 6 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 8 programs (Bishop Gorman).
Over expectation · 2016 on48Results against what his rosters' talent predicted (program lift, evaluation, recruiting, staff building, game management).
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.
Program lift54
Evaluation56
Results34
Recruiting58
Staff building53
Game management67
| Season | Team | Record | Season rank | vs contemporaries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | New Mexico State | 0-0 | #116 | -1.05 SD |
| 2025 | New Mexico State | 4-8 | #125 | -1.39 SD |
| 2024 | New Mexico State | 3-9 | #129 | -1.98 SD |
| 2019 | UNLV | 4-8 | #118 | -1.25 SD |
| 2018 | UNLV | 4-8 | #109 | -1.16 SD |
| 2017 | UNLV | 5-7 | #100 | -0.75 SD |
| 2016 | UNLV | 4-8 | #112 | -1.24 SD |
| 2015 | UNLV | 3-9 | #107 | -1.17 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).