Jim Sutherland

Head coach, Washington State, 1956 to 1963

College career37-39-4

Program liftNo. 225tied · 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.

2-6 against his rivals. Just 2-6 against Len Casanova.

Rivalry record

2-6

25.0% · 1 rival

One-score games

17-17-4

44.7% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Washington2-625%

The toughest matchup

vs. Len Casanova2-6-1

9 meetings, 1956–1963

’56 T’57 L’58 W’59 L’59 L’60 L’61 W’62 L’63 L

22% win rate across a real, 9-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

Power Program

2-9 18.2%

National Program

12-20 37.5%

Regional Program

20-7 74.1%

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 (1956-1963) 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 least6Drafted

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.

At least 6 — his 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963 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 · 6 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Note
1963	R4.48	Estimated
1963	R6.79	Estimated
1961	R5.58	Estimated
1960	R6.57	Estimated
1960	R6.60	Estimated
1958	R2.21	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.