The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Eddie Gran.

Offensive coordinator · 7 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.14not 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 4Year 5Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=755n=426n=222n=113n=65Cincinnati, year 1: 89th percentileCincinnati, year 2: 69th percentileCincinnatiKentucky, year 1: 70th percentileKentucky, year 2: 47th percentileKentucky, year 3: 47th percentileKentucky, year 4: 83rd percentileKentucky, year 5: 19th percentileKentuckymedian still in the job
Cincinnati 2014–2015
Kentucky 2016–2020
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Cincinnati, 2 years
▼ 19.5
88.7 to 69.1 percentile.
Kentucky, 5 years
▼ 50.6
69.9 to 19.3 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
2014–2015Cincinnati68.488.788.7▲ 20.7
2016–2020Kentucky39.569.983.5▼ 4.5
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