Rudy Feldman, head coach at New Mexico
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Rudy Feldman

Rudy Feldman went 24–⁠37–⁠2 as a head coach, 1968–⁠1973, at New Mexico.

Record
24–⁠37–⁠2 career
Seasons
6
Schools
1
Final AP top 10
0 seasons
Best season
1970 7–⁠3

Season by season

Wins and losses each seasonfinal AP rank above★ national titleline: the team’s Elo at season’s end, best 1530 in 1971
SeasonSchoolRecordConference finishBowlAP final
1968New Mexico0–⁠108th
1969New Mexico4–⁠67th
1970New Mexico7–⁠32nd
1971New Mexico6–⁠3–⁠22nd
1972New Mexico3–⁠86th
1973New Mexico4–⁠7T–4th

Each season links to the team’s season page; bowls and playoff games link to the game. Conference finishes from the Wikipedia article’s record table.

How his teams did

Kind of gameGamesRecord
Against ranked teams50–⁠5
Against top-10 teams20–⁠2
Against rivals1810–⁠7–⁠1
Conference games3816–⁠22
Decided by 8 points or fewer168–⁠6–⁠2
At home3113–⁠17–⁠1
On the road3211–⁠20–⁠1
As our Elo’s favorite2012–⁠6–⁠2
As our Elo’s underdog4312–⁠31

His own 63 games on file, 1968–⁠1973, as played (vacated wins counted, ties as half a win). Ranks are the AP poll going into the game; rivals are the ones either program’s Wikipedia article names; favorite and underdog by our own Elo rating, which reads only scores.

Against other head coaches

CoachRecordTheir schoolsGames
Bill Meek 1968–⁠19732–⁠4Utah6
Frank Kush 1968–⁠19730–⁠6Arizona State6
Jim Wood 1968–⁠19723–⁠1–⁠1New Mexico State5
Robert Dobbs 1968–⁠19723–⁠2UTEP5
Tommy Hudspeth 1968–⁠19733–⁠2BYU, UTEP5
Bob Weber 1969–⁠19722–⁠2Arizona4
Fritz Shurmur 1971–⁠19733–⁠0Wyoming3
Lloyd Eaton 1968–⁠19702–⁠1Wyoming3
Pepper Rodgers 1968–⁠19701–⁠2Kansas3
DeWayne King 1970–⁠19721–⁠1–⁠1San José State3

Rudy Feldman’s record against the head coaches he met three or more times, from the games on file, as played.

Most-faced opponents

OpponentGamesRecord
Wyomingseries65–⁠1
New Mexico Stateseries64–⁠1–⁠1
UTEPseries64–⁠2
Arizonaseries62–⁠4
San José Stateseries62–⁠3–⁠1
BYUseries62–⁠4
Utahseries62–⁠4
Arizona Stateseries60–⁠6

Career

YearsTeamJob
1957Iowa StateLine coach
1958–⁠62OklahomaEnds coach
1963–⁠67ColoradoChief assistant
1968–⁠73New MexicoHead coach
1974–⁠77San Diego Chargers NFLDefensive line and linebackers coach
1978–⁠85St. Louis Cardinals NFLLinebackers coach

Every job as the infobox of his Wikipedia article lists it (CC BY-SA), assistant jobs included.

Coaching tree

Worked under

Rudy Feldman

Assistants who became head coaches

Worked under (4)
Head coachTeamYearsHis job
Jim MyersIowa State1957Line coach
Bud WilkinsonOklahoma1958–⁠62Ends coach
Eddie CrowderColorado1963–⁠67Chief assistant
Tommy ProthroSan Diego Chargers NFL1974–⁠77Defensive line and linebackers coach
Coached under him, later head coaches (3)
CoachWith himHead coach at
Bert ClarkNew Mexico, 1968–⁠69: assistant coachWashington State
Bill MondtNew Mexico, 1968–⁠73: assistant coachNew Mexico
Rocky LongNew Mexico, 1972–⁠73: graduate assistantNew Mexico, San Diego State
Other assistants under him (1)
CoachWith him
A. J. ChristoffNew Mexico, 1973: defensive backs coach and recruiting coordinator

From coaches’ Wikipedia infoboxes (CC BY-SA) and each season’s article for its coordinators: an assistant’s seasons at a school count under its head coach in our records; jobs in the NFL and elsewhere, under the head coach whose own article lists the job that year. Names without a page here link to their Wikipedia articles.