The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Doug Meacham.

Offensive coordinator · 7 seasons · 4 stints · 3 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.18not 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=222TCU, year 1: 84th percentileTCU, year 2: 73rd percentileTCU, year 3: 44th percentileTCUKansas, year 1: 3rd percentileKansas, year 2: 23rd percentileKansasTCU, year 1: 64th percentileTCUOklahoma State, year 1: 3rd percentileOklahoma Statemedian still in the job
TCU 2014–2016
Kansas 2017–2018
TCU 2021–2021
Oklahoma State 2025–2025
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
TCU, 3 years
▼ 39.8
84.0 to 44.1 percentile.
Kansas, 2 years
▲ 20.0
2.7 to 22.7 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
2014–2016TCU5.284.084.0▲ 1.7
2017–2018Kansas3.52.722.7▼ 36.2
2021–2021TCU70.564.264.2▲ 7.2
2025–2025Oklahoma State36.23.33.3▼ 50.7

TCU 2021–2021: ranked 70th the year before he arrived, 64th at its best — went backwards.

Oklahoma State 2025–2025: ranked 36th the year before he arrived, 3rd at its best — went backwards.

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