The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

A. J. Milwee.

Offensive coordinator · 8 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.06#342 of 472 · a typical amount

The tenure clock

Every stop re-aligned to its own first year, so the stops stack instead of scrolling past each other. The gray dashed line is a reference, not a path: each point is the median of whoever was still in the job that year, across every real OC/DC stint since 2014 at that role, and the pool shrinks year over year because surviving to a later year means not having been fired.

100th — best in the country90th — elite — top 10%75th — top quarter50th — national median25th — bottom quarter0 — worst in the countryHis offense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203n=102n=58median still in the jobnot a pathAkron, year 1: 11th percentileAkron, year 2: 21st percentileAkron, year 3: 26th percentileAkron, year 4: 11th percentileAkron, year 5: 5th percentileAkronTexas, year 1: 78th percentileTexas, year 2: 76th percentileTexas, year 3: 79th percentileTexas
Akron 2014–2018
Texas 2023–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Akron, 5 years
−5.5
10.5 to 5.0 percentile.
Texas, 4 years
+1.2
77.8 to 79.0 percentile.
Median offensive coordinator
+4.7
first season to last, across 222 stints of 3+ years. 52.7% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2018Akronno record10.526.2−27.0
2023–2026Texas84.477.879.0+7.3

No prior-season record for the first stop (Akron, 2014) — the data floor starts there.

Texas 2023–2026: ranked 84th the year before he arrived, 79th at its best — went backwards.

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