The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Danny Langsdorf.

Offensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.15not 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.

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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=755n=426n=222Nebraska, year 1: 68th percentileNebraska, year 2: 20th percentileNebraska, year 3: 37th percentileNebraskaTemple, year 1: 39th percentileTemple, year 2: 16th percentileTemple, year 3: 4th percentileTemplemedian still in the job
Nebraska 2015–2017
Temple 2022–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Nebraska, 3 years
▼ 31.1
68.4 to 37.3 percentile.
Temple, 3 years
▼ 34.4
38.5 to 4.1 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

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2015–2017Nebraska45.768.468.4▼ 17.4
2022–2024Temple6.538.538.5▼ 25.9
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