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+0.19#26 of 472 · more than most
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.
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
−8.5
73.5 to 65.0 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
| Years | Program | Walked into | Year 1 | Best | Vs. talent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2017 | New Mexico | no record | 67.6 | 94.9 | +15.2 |
| 2018–2020 | Georgia Southern | 28.8 | 73.5 | 73.5 | +19.9 |
No prior-season record for the first stop (New Mexico, 2014) — the data floor starts there.