The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Brandon Bailey.

Defensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.10#300 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400n=218median still in the jobnot a pathBuffalo, year 1: 50th percentileBuffaloGeorgia Southern, year 1: 12th percentileGeorgia Southern, year 2: 32nd percentileGeorgia Southern, year 3: 14th percentileGeorgia Sout…
Buffalo 2022–2022
Georgia Southern 2023–2025
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Georgia Southern, 3 years
+2.7
11.7 to 14.3 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
2022–2022Buffalo17.350.050.0+12.1
2023–2025Georgia Southern11.111.732.5−23.3
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