The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Charlton Warren.

Defensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 3 stints · 3 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.12#316 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400median still in the jobnot a pathIndiana, year 1: 28th percentileIndianaNorth Carolina, year 1: 5th percentileNorth Carolina, year 2: 28th percentileNorth Caroli…NC State, year 1: 47th percentileNC State
Indiana 2021–2021
North Carolina 2022–2023
NC State 2025–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
North Carolina, 2 years
+23.2
5.0 to 28.2 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
2021–2021Indiana83.128.128.1−27.9
2022–2023North Carolina25.05.028.2−45.6
2025–2026NC State26.546.746.7−8.0

Indiana 2021–2021: ranked 83rd the year before he arrived, 28th at its best — went backwards.

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