The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Calvin Magee.

Offensive coordinator · 5 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.13#424 of 472 · less 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 offense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203n=102median still in the jobnot a pathArizona, year 1: 53rd percentileArizona, year 2: 76th percentileArizona, year 3: 34th percentileArizona, year 4: 95th percentileArizonaNew Mexico, year 1: 8th percentileNew Mexico
Arizona 2014–2017
New Mexico 2018–2018
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Arizona, 4 years
+42.3
52.7 to 95.0 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

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2017Arizonano record52.795.0+14.0
2018–2018New Mexico13.58.18.1−35.6

No prior-season record for the first stop (Arizona, 2014) — the data floor starts there.

New Mexico 2018–2018: ranked 13th the year before he arrived, 8th at its best — went backwards.

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