The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Eric Kiesau.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 4 stints · 3 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.03#284 of 472 · 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.

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 pathKansas, year 1: 15th percentileKansasBoise State, year 1: 77th percentileBoise State, year 2: 52nd percentileBoise StAuburn, year 1: 55th percentileAuburn
Kansas 2014–2014
Boise State 2019–2020
Auburn 2022–2022
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Boise State, 2 years
−25.7
77.3 to 51.6 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
2014–2014Kansasno record15.215.2
2019–2019Boise State86.577.377.3+27.7
2020–2020Boise State77.351.651.6+2.3
2022–2022Auburn50.455.355.3−7.4

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

Boise State 2019–2019: ranked 87th the year before he arrived, 77th at its best — went backwards.

Boise State 2020–2020: ranked 77th the year before he arrived, 52nd at its best — went backwards.

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