The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Doug Nussmeier.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.21#461 of 472 · 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 offense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203median still in the jobnot a pathMichigan, year 1: 30th percentileMichiganFlorida, year 1: 25th percentileFlorida, year 2: 8th percentileFlorida, year 3: 43rd percentileFlorida
Michigan 2014–2014
Florida 2015–2017
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Florida, 3 years
+18.9
24.6 to 43.5 percentile.
Median offensive coordinator
+4.7
first season to last, across 222 stints of 3+ years. 52.7% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2014Michiganno record30.130.1
2015–2017Florida19.924.643.5−37.4

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

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