William Tate

Head coach, 1964–1968

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

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Career path

Head-coaching stints since 1936; assistant roles since 2016

1964–1968Wake ForestHead Coach

As head coach

Rating—Peak65Career61

1964–1968 · 5 seasonsRecord 17-32National titles 0Great seasons 0 (top ~7% of all teams that year)Career: too early to rank all-time (8+ seasons as a head coach)

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 65: best five-season stretch, 1964–1968 at Wake Forest (17-32), taking over a losing program.

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
1968	Wake Forest	2-7-1	#50	+0.23 SD
1967	Wake Forest	4-6	#69	-0.31 SD
1966	Wake Forest	3-7	#70	-0.33 SD
1965	Wake Forest	3-7	#83	-0.70 SD
1964	Wake Forest	5-5	#66	-0.10 SD

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