The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Chuck Bresnahan.

Defensive coordinator · 2 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.22#385 of 458 · 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 defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659median still in the jobnot a pathSouth Florida, year 1: 46th percentileSouth FloridaUCF, year 1: 7th percentileUCF
South Florida 2014–2014
UCF 2015–2015
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
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
2014–2014South Floridano record45.745.7
2015–2015UCF94.17.47.4−40.8

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

UCF 2015–2015: ranked 94th the year before he arrived, 7th at its best — went backwards.

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