The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Adam Fuller.

Defensive coordinator · 7 seasons · 4 stints · 3 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense+0.13#123 of 458 · 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 defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400n=218n=122n=67median still in the jobnot a pathMarshall, year 1: 80th percentileMarshallMemphis, year 1: 46th percentileMemphisFlorida State, year 1: 19th percentileFlorida State, year 2: 83rd percentileFlorida State, year 3: 66th percentileFlorida State, year 4: 86th percentileFlorida State, year 5: 28th percentileFlorida St
Marshall 2018–2018
Memphis 2019–2019
Florida State 2020–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Florida State, 5 years
+8.7
19.3 to 28.0 percentile.
Median defensive coordinator
+1.0
first season to last, across 239 stints of 3+ years. 52.3% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2018–2018Marshall79.679.679.6+32.9
2019–2019Memphis38.845.845.8−3.2
2020–2021Florida State76.519.382.7−10.7
2022–2024Florida State82.766.086.1−2.0
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