Graded never on raw wins but on what beats the baseline, then tested for portability.
A win is confounded by conference, budget, prestige, and inherited talent. Strip it out and grade only what a coach adds over the baseline, across five pillars, integrity-adjusted. A composite head coach.
Two coaches with the same record can be twenty points apart, because one inherited a loaded roster in a soft league and the other built his own in a gauntlet. The rating answers the only question that matters when you hire: what does this coach add that the program did not already have.
Illustrative engine read on the real Coach Intelligence pillar structure (development, overperformance, March, acquisition, staying power, integrity-adjusted). Composite coach, demonstration figures.
A coach is a portable actor, followed across every stop. The question: when he changed schools, did the pillars travel, or stay with the building? Same composite coach, three stops.
Wins can be inherited; a signal that survives three changes of address cannot. Portability is the closest thing in sports to a controlled experiment, and it is the heart of the rating.
Illustrative engine read on the real portability structure (the coach followed across stops, pillars compared). Composite coach and programs, demonstration figures.
The assistants are followed too, each a portable actor with a specialty that travels. The staff is rated as a unit and by chair, then fed to the decisions that hang on it.
A name on the marquee is not a staff. The whole operation is read, each chair valued by what it carries, and handed to the two decisions it drives: how a prospect grows here, and whether this is the group to bet a program on.
Illustrative engine read on the real staff-breakout and feed structure (assistants as portable actors, DEV conditioning development projections, hire pricing). Composite staff, demonstration figures.
A season can be bought; a signal that travels from a mid-major to a blue-blood cannot.
Coaches reads the staff as portable actors and feeds the decisions that hang on them.