Top 25
0-7
- Games
- 7
- Win rate
- 0.0%
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Gene McEver
1936-1944 • Davidson, North Carolina
2 schools coached, anchored by Davidson.
Gene McEver's coaching record is 22-49-5, highlighted by seasons at Davidson from 1936 to 1944.
Gene McEver coached 8 seasons, won 32.2%, and posted an average SRS of -10.1. Best season: 1936 Davidson. The profile was balanced with a mostly steady profile. 2 stints shaped the career arc.
- Career record
- 22-49-5
- Career win rate
- 32.2%
- Average SRS
- -10.1
- Peak SRS
- 3.4
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 8
- Career span
- 9 years
- Best finish
- —
- Consistency
- 59.9
Primary school anchor
Davidson
Balanced profile with 2 program stops and a peak score of 42.5.
Quick Answers
Records fans search first
Headline records use countable season rows after completed-game fallback. Partial seasons and provisional placeholders are called out separately.
- Overall record
- 22-49-5
- Davidson record
- 21-42-4
- Full-season record
- 22-49-5
- Vs AP Top 10
- 0-4
- Vs AP Top 5
- 0-2
- Postseason / bowl record
- 0-0
- CFP record
- 0-0
- National titles
- 0
76 countable games, 32.2% win rate.
7 countable seasons at Davidson.
8 full season rows; partial and backfilled current rows are separated.
4 games using AP ranking at game time.
2 games using AP ranking at game time.
0 scored postseason games in this dataset.
0 College Football Playoff-labeled games since 2014.
Matched by coach team-season against the national championship dataset.
Record definition and data status
Career records use countable coach-season rows. Zero-game placeholders are excluded from aggregates until a completed-game fallback can verify the record.
Completed-game fallback uses scored games joined by coach, team, and season; advanced ratings are left blank when the season summary has not supplied them.
Latest completed coached game in this dataset: Dec 2, 1944. Current and future zero-game placeholders are kept visible but excluded from headline records.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Gene McEver
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Gene McEver: 1944 North Carolina
1936Actual season year • SRS range -16.9 to 3.41944
Active comparison point
Gene McEver • 1936
1936 Davidson
Best season5-4 • SRS 3.4 • SP Overall —
Win %
55.6%
YoY SRS
—
SP Off / Def
— / —
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
0-4
- Games
- 4
- Win rate
- 0.0%
Top 5
0-2
- Games
- 2
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results7
| 1944 Regular Week 7 | North Carolina | Georgia Tech | #10 | L0-28 |
| 1944 Regular Week 6 | North Carolina | Army | #1 | L0-46 |
| 1944 Regular Week 5 | North Carolina | Wake Forest | #12 | L0-7 |
| 1942 Regular Week 6 | Davidson | Georgia Tech | #2 | L0-33 |
| 1939 Regular Week 3 | Davidson | Duke | #12 | L6-26 |
| 1938 Regular Week 3 | Davidson | Duke | #9 | L0-27 |
| 1937 Regular Week 3 | Davidson | Duke | #11 | L6-34 |
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
North Carolina
1944-1944 • 1 seasons
Avg SRS -9.3 • Win % 16.7%
Davidson
1936-1942 • 7 seasons
Avg SRS -10.2 • Win % 34.3%
- Longest tenure
- Davidson • 7 seasons
- Best tenure
- North Carolina • -9.3 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Davidson • 34.3%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Not enough data to compare.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeNot enough data to compare.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Gene McEver
Insufficient sample
- Raw avg SP Overall
- —
- Percentile
- —
Insufficient sample
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
North Carolina
1944-1944 • 1-7-1
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS -9.3Win % 16.7%
Avg wins
Higher is better
1.0 during vs 5.6 baseline
-4.6
Avg SRS
Higher is better
-9.3 during vs 4.7 baseline
-14.0
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
— during vs — baseline
—
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
0.0% during vs 0.0% baseline
+0.0%
Davidson
1936-1942 • 21-42-4
Baseline comparison is omitted when there are not enough outside-stint seasons for this program.
Avg SRS -10.2Win % 34.3%
No school baseline data available for this tenure.
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Davidson 1936
5-4 • SRS 3.4
Biggest Improvement
Davidson 1942
2-6-1 • 9.8 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Unavailable
Best Defensive Season
Unavailable
Setbacks
Lowest SRS Season
Davidson 1941
1-6-3 • SRS -16.9
Biggest Drop
Davidson 1937
2-8 • -14.5 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| North Carolina | 1944 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 16.7% | — | — | -9.3 | — | — | — | -2.2 | -11.1% | Season summary |
| Davidson | 1942 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 27.8% | — | — | -7.1 | — | — | — | +9.8 | +2.8% | Season summary |
| Davidson | 1941 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 25.0% | — | — | -16.9 | — | — | — | -0.4 | -25.0% | Season summary |
| Davidson | 1940 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 50.0% | — | — | -16.5 | — | — | — | -7.1 | +27.8% | Season summary |
| Davidson | 1939 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 22.2% | — | — | -9.4 | — | — | — | +4.1 | -17.8% | Season summary |
| Davidson | 1938 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 40.0% | — | — | -13.5 | — | — | — | -2.4 | +20.0% | Season summary |
| Davidson | 1937 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 20.0% | — | — | -11.1 | — | — | — | -14.5 | -35.6% | Season summary |
| Davidson | 1936 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.6% | — | — | 3.4 | — | — | — | — | — | Season summary |
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