The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Clayton White.

Defensive coordinator · 9 seasons · 3 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense+0.33#38 of 458 · more 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 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400n=218n=122n=67median still in the jobnot a pathWestern Kentucky, year 1: 32nd percentileWestern Kentucky, year 2: 62nd percentileWestern Kentucky, year 3: 76th percentileWestern Kentucky, year 4: 82nd percentileWestern KentuckySouth Carolina, year 1: 50th percentileSouth Carolina, year 2: 28th percentileSouth Carolina, year 3: 67th percentileSouth Carolina, year 4: 84th percentileSouth Carolina, year 5: 78th percentileSouth Caroli…
Western Kentucky 2017–2020
South Carolina 2021–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Western Kentucky, 4 years
+50.4
31.9 to 82.3 percentile.
South Carolina, 6 years
+27.9
50.4 to 78.3 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
2017–2019Western Kentucky51.231.975.8+14.5
2020–2020Western Kentucky75.882.382.3+36.4
2021–2026South Carolina4.350.484.0+0.6
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