Coaches / Head coach / Vince Gibson
Career
61
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak69best 5 yrs
Career61whole career
confidence
Vince Gibson
Head coach, 1967–1982
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs3
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak69Career61
1967–1982 · 16 seasonsRecord 73-100National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 65: 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 69: best five-season stretch, 1967–1970 at Kansas State (16-25), taking over a losing program.
- Career 61 (#329 since 1936): total accomplishment over 16 seasons (73-100), 0 national titles, 0 elite seasons; full credit for the program he inherited.
- Won big at one of his 3 programs (Kansas State).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Tulane | 4-7 | #63 | -0.22 SD |
| 1981 | Tulane | 6-5 | #36 | +0.54 SD |
| 1980 | Tulane | 7-5 | #48 | +0.29 SD |
| 1979 | Louisville | 4-6-1 | #71 | -0.28 SD |
| 1978 | Louisville | 7-4 | #70 | -0.28 SD |
| 1977 | Louisville | 7-4-1 | #65 | -0.04 SD |
| 1976 | Louisville | 4-7 | #78 | -0.41 SD |
| 1975 | Louisville | 1-10 | #117 | -1.93 SD |
| 1974 | Kansas State | 4-7 | #57 | +0.06 SD |
| 1973 | Kansas State | 5-6 | #42 | +0.29 SD |
| 1972 | Kansas State | 3-8 | #82 | -0.66 SD |
| 1971 | Kansas State | 5-6 | #33 | +0.18 SD |
| 1970 | Kansas State | 6-5 | #35 | +0.51 SD |
| 1969 | Kansas State | 5-5 | #17 | +1.24 SD |
| 1968 | Kansas State | 4-6 | #46 | +0.27 SD |
| 1967 | Kansas State | 1-9 | #90 | -0.95 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).