The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Barry Lunney Jr..

Offensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.01#206 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203n=102median still in the jobnot a pathUTSA, year 1: 56th percentileUTSA, year 2: 73rd percentileUTSAIllinois, year 1: 40th percentileIllinois, year 2: 58th percentileIllinois, year 3: 72nd percentileIllinois, year 4: 64th percentileIllinois
UTSA 2020–2021
Illinois 2022–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
UTSA, 2 years
+17.2
56.3 to 73.5 percentile.
Illinois, 5 years
+23.5
40.1 to 63.6 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
2020–2021UTSA25.056.373.5+18.3
2022–2026Illinois18.840.172.0+7.3
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