Coaches / Head coach / Wesley Fesler
Career
70
not coaching now
Rating—recent
Peak68best 5 yrs
Career70whole career
confidence
Wesley Fesler
Head coach, 1946–1953
Headline rating: as head coach. Every role he has been rated in is below.
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Programs3
Stints3
Career path
Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016
As head coach
Rating—Peak68Career70
1946–1953 · 8 seasonsRecord 34-28National titles 0Great seasons 1 (top ~7% of all teams that year)
- Rating 68: 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 68: best five-season stretch, 1946–1950 at Pittsburgh and Ohio State (24-15, 2 top-10 seasons by team strength).
- Career 70 (#186 since 1936): total accomplishment over 8 seasons (34-28), 0 national titles, 1 elite season; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Minnesota | 4-4-1 | #23 | +0.76 SD |
| 1952 | Minnesota | 4-3-2 | #39 | +0.28 SD |
| 1951 | Minnesota | 2-6-1 | #68 | -0.43 SD |
| 1950 | Ohio State | 6-0 | #4 | +1.51 SD |
| 1949 | Ohio State | 7-1-2 | #8 | +1.33 SD |
| 1948 | Ohio State | 6-3 | #15 | +1.11 SD |
| 1947 | Ohio State | 2-6-1 | #52 | +0.04 SD |
| 1946 | Pittsburgh | 3-5-1 | #38 | +0.33 SD |
Season rank = his team among all major-college teams that year; vs contemporaries = how far above the average team (in standard deviations).