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Tommy Mont

Followed Jim Tatum. Tommy Mont inherited a Blue Blood Maryland and won with it.

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1956–1958 · 1 stint
Maryland
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Career arc

His real stature score, season by season, across every program he’s coached — so a stretch that stays in one tier the whole way can still climb or sink on the line, not just flatten out. Node color marks the tier reached. Which program a stretch belongs to is carried by the shaded lane behind it.

Stature score reached, by season of his head-coaching careerMARYLANDBlue Bloodpermanent top tierPower Programperennial contenderMaryland, 1956: 2-7, Blue Blood1956Maryland, 1957: 5-5, Power Program I1957Maryland, 1958: 4-6, Power Program II1958-12.9One point per coached season, in career order; dashed segments are program changes — spacing is not proportional to calendar time

Reached Blue Blood in his 1st career season — faster than 59% of the 100 FBS coaches who have ever reached Blue Blood (rank #1 of 100 by seasons-to-arrival).

Maryland, 3 seasons
−12.9
Blue Blood → Power Program II.

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.

Winless in 3 tries against Frank Howard.

One-score games
3–4–1
37.5% · margin ≤8
vs. Blue Blood or better
0–2
0.0%
The toughest matchup
vs. Frank Howard0–2–1
3 meetings, 1956–1958
’56 T’57 L’58 L
0% win rate across a real, 3-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
1–8 11.1%
National Program
4–5 44.4%
Regional Program
6–3 66.7%

Coaching career

1956–1958
Marylandinheritor
Blue Blood → Blue Blood
Tommy Mont inherited a Blue Blood Maryland and won with it.

2nd-best Maryland tenure of 21 by the numbers.

Followed Jim Tatum (1947–1955) · succeeded by Thomas Nugent (1959–1965).

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