The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Bob DeBesse.

Offensive coordinator · 7 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.20not distinguishable from zero
model fit as of 2026-09-04

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=755n=426n=222n=113New Mexico, year 1: 68th percentileNew Mexico, year 2: 57th percentileNew Mexico, year 3: 95th percentileNew Mexico, year 4: 13th percentileNew MexicoGeorgia Southern, year 1: 73rd percentileGeorgia Southern, year 2: 33rd percentileGeorgia Southern, year 3: 74th percentileGeorgia Southernmedian still in the job
New Mexico 2014–2017
Georgia Southern 2018–2020
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
New Mexico, 4 years
▼ 54.1
67.6 to 13.5 percentile.
Georgia Southern, 3 years
▲ 0.2
73.5 to 73.6 percentile.
Median offensive coordinator
+0.5
first season to last, across 222 stints of 3+ years. 50.9% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2017New Mexico70.067.694.9▲ 15.2
2018–2020Georgia Southern28.873.573.6▲ 22.8
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