Wayne Hardin

Head coach, 1959–1982

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

Chemistry

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Programs2

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1971–1982TempleHead Coach

1959–1964NavyHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak67Career70

1959–1982 · 18 seasonsRecord 111-71National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)

Rating 67: 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 67: best five-season stretch, 1960–1964 at Navy (33-18, 1 top-10 season by team strength), taking over a good program.
Career 70 (#197 since 1936): total accomplishment over 18 seasons (111-71), 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
1982	Temple	4-7	#41	+0.25 SD
1981	Temple	5-5	#33	+0.66 SD
1980	Temple	4-7	#87	-0.62 SD
1979	Temple	10-2	#12	+1.43 SD
1978	Temple	7-3-1	#69	-0.23 SD
1977	Temple	5-5-1	#76	-0.28 SD
1976	Temple	4-6	#70	-0.24 SD
1975	Temple	6-5	#70	-0.23 SD
1974	Temple	8-2	#28	+0.75 SD
1973	Temple	9-1	#52	+0.09 SD
1972	Temple	5-4	#86	-0.73 SD
1971	Temple	6-2-1	#53	-0.02 SD
1964	Navy	3-6-1	#48	+0.30 SD
1963	Navy	9-2	#5	+1.48 SD
1962	Navy	5-5	#40	+0.39 SD
1961	Navy	7-3	#31	+0.47 SD
1960	Navy	9-2	#29	+0.78 SD
1959	Navy	5-4-1	#44	+0.17 SD

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