The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach
Ed Pinkham.
Defensive coordinator · 5 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.16#336 of 458 · a typical amount
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.
Western Michigan 2014–2016
Massachusetts 2017–2018
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Western Michigan, 3 years
−43.0
77.7 to 34.8 percentile.
Massachusetts, 2 years
−39.2
56.5 to 17.3 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
| Years | Program | Walked into | Year 1 | Best | Vs. talent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2016 | Western Michigan | no record | 77.7 | 77.7 | −13.5 |
| 2017–2018 | Massachusetts | 29.3 | 56.5 | 56.5 | −6.4 |
No prior-season record for the first stop (Western Michigan, 2014) — the data floor starts there.