The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Brad White.

Defensive coordinator · 7 seasons · 4 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense+0.19#92 of 458 · 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.

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 6Year 7Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400n=218n=122n=67n=39n=25median still in the jobnot a pathKentucky, year 1: 69th percentileKentucky, year 2: 44th percentileKentucky, year 3: 57th percentileKentucky, year 4: 92nd percentileKentucky, year 5: 52nd percentileKentucky, year 6: 68th percentileKentucky, year 7: 53rd percentileKentuckyFlorida: just hired
Kentucky 2019–2025
Florida 2026–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Kentucky, 7 years
−15.5
68.8 to 53.3 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
2019–2020Kentucky70.468.868.8−1.5
2021–2021Kentucky43.756.556.5−1.4
2022–2025Kentucky56.592.092.0+7.4
2026–2026Floridano record

Kentucky 2019–2020: ranked 70th the year before he arrived, 69th at its best — went backwards.

Florida: just hired, no season coached yet.

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