The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Drew Hollingshead.

Offensive coordinator · 3 seasons · 3 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.09#378 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405median still in the jobnot a pathWestern Kentucky, year 1: 61st percentileWestern Kentucky, year 2: 62nd percentileWestern Kent…Coastal Carolina, year 1: 14th percentileCoastal Carolina
Western Kentucky 2023–2024
Coastal Carolina 2025–2025
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Western Kentucky, 2 years
+1.8
60.5 to 62.3 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
2023–2023Western Kentucky88.260.560.5+15.4
2024–2024Western Kentucky60.562.362.3+21.6
2025–2025Coastal Carolina28.013.613.6−33.7

Western Kentucky 2023–2023: ranked 88th the year before he arrived, 61st at its best — went backwards.

Coastal Carolina 2025–2025: ranked 28th the year before he arrived, 14th at its best — went backwards.

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