Gene Corum

Head coach, West Virginia, 1960 to 1965

College career29-30-2

Program liftNo. 1,117tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

3-3 against his rivals. Winless in 6 tries against Rip Engle.

Rivalry record

3-3

50.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

11-4-2

64.7% · margin ≤8

Against Blue Bloods or better

0-2

0.0%

Rivalry ledger

Pittsburgh3-350%

The toughest matchup

vs. Rip Engle0-6

6 meetings, 1960–1965

’60 L’61 L’62 L’63 L’64 L’65 L

0% win rate across a real, 6-meeting series — short of the bar this site uses before badging a series “Nemesis.” Shown here as the toughest matchup on record, not an algorithmic crown.

Performance by opponent class

Blue Blood

0-2 0.0%

Power Program

3-14 17.6%

National Program

6-7 46.2%

Regional Program

13-5 72.2%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1960-1965) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least4Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here. 1 went in the first round.

At least 4 — his 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 4 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1966	R1.03	Estimated
1966	R6.82	Estimated
1964	R7.79	Estimated
1962	R6.76	Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.