Coaches / Head coach / Watson Brown
Career
33
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak52best 5 yrs
Career33whole career
confidence
Watson Brown
Head coach, 1983–2006
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
Chemistry
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index in development
Seasons here—
Programs4
Stints4
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak52Career33
1983–2006 · 19 seasonsRecord 75-137National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 52: 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 52: best five-season stretch, 1999–2003 at UAB (28-29), taking over an average program.
- Career 33 (#512 since 1936): total accomplishment over 19 seasons (75-137), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | UAB | 3-9 | #93 | -0.85 SD |
| 2005 | UAB | 5-6 | #77 | -0.33 SD |
| 2004 | UAB | 7-5 | #74 | -0.26 SD |
| 2003 | UAB | 5-7 | #83 | -0.62 SD |
| 2002 | UAB | 5-7 | #94 | -0.99 SD |
| 2001 | UAB | 6-5 | #62 | -0.03 SD |
| 2000 | UAB | 7-4 | #63 | -0.01 SD |
| 1999 | UAB | 5-6 | #62 | -0.04 SD |
| 1998 | UAB | 4-7 | #96 | -1.15 SD |
| 1997 | UAB | 5-6 | #93 | -1.14 SD |
| 1996 | UAB | 5-6 | #98 | -1.26 SD |
| 1990 | Vanderbilt | 1-10 | #100 | -1.60 SD |
| 1989 | Vanderbilt | 1-10 | #76 | -0.57 SD |
| 1988 | Vanderbilt | 3-8 | #68 | -0.33 SD |
| 1987 | Vanderbilt | 4-7 | #51 | -0.03 SD |
| 1986 | Vanderbilt | 1-10 | #79 | -0.83 SD |
| 1985 | Rice | 3-8 | #79 | -0.83 SD |
| 1984 | Rice | 1-10 | #94 | -1.43 SD |
| 1983 | Cincinnati | 4-6-1 | #61 | -0.24 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).