The Zeitgeist List · coordinating

Scottie Montgomery

Offensive coordinator across 2 programs, 2 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.

100th — best in the country90th — elite — top 10%75th — top quarter50th — national median25th — bottom quarter0 — worst in the countryHis unit’s national rank, by season’14’15’16’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26Duke · OCEast Carolina · HEAD COACHMaryland · OC→ BECAME HEAD COACHEast Carolina, 2016← RETURNED TO COORDINATINGMaryland, 2019Duke 2014: 39th percentile nationallyDuke 2015: 36th percentile nationallyMaryland ranked 37th percentile the year before he arrived○ what he walked intoMaryland 2019: 5th percentile nationallyMaryland 2020: 26th percentile nationallyEast Carolina 2016: 54th percentile (Tony Petersen ran the unit)East Carolina 2017: 23rd percentile (Tony Petersen ran the unit)East Carolina 2018: 7th percentile (Tony Petersen ran the unit)39th, career bestDuke, 20147th percentile
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from coordinator_journeys(); head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from staff_assignments. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.