The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach
Bryan Ellis.
Offensive coordinator · 5 seasons · 4 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.04not 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.
Western Kentucky 2019–2021
Georgia Southern 2022–2023
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Western Kentucky, 3 years
▲ 46.9
51.2 to 98.1 percentile.
Georgia Southern, 2 years
▼ 25.2
76.7 to 51.5 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
| Years | Program | Walked into | Year 1 | Best | Vs. talent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019–2019 | Western Kentucky | 15.8 | 51.2 | 51.2 | ▲ 4.8 |
| 2020–2020 | Western Kentucky | 51.2 | 16.1 | 16.1 | ▼ 29.3 |
| 2021–2021 | Western Kentucky | 16.1 | 98.1 | 98.1 | ▲ 50.0 |
| 2022–2023 | Georgia Southern | 12.7 | 76.7 | 76.7 | ▲ 24.0 |
Western Kentucky 2020–2020: ranked 51st the year before he arrived, 16th at its best — went backwards.