The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Brennan Carroll.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.00#222 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203median still in the jobnot a pathArizona, year 1: 6th percentileArizona, year 2: 67th percentileArizona, year 3: 94th percentileArizonaWashington, year 1: 65th percentileWashington
Arizona 2021–2023
Washington 2024–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Arizona, 3 years
+88.6
5.8 to 94.4 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
2021–2023Arizona13.85.894.4+2.7
2024–2024Washington92.965.365.3+8.0

Washington 2024–2024: ranked 93rd the year before he arrived, 65th at its best — went backwards.

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