The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Garin Justice.

Offensive coordinator · 3 seasons · 3 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.03#291 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 pathUNLV, year 1: 31st percentileUNLVSMU, year 1: 67th percentileSMU, year 2: 90th percentileSMU
UNLV 2019–2019
SMU 2024–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
SMU, 3 years
+23.3
66.8 to 90.1 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
2019–2019UNLV46.531.231.2−14.2
2024–2025SMU87.666.890.1+18.4
2026–2026SMUno record

UNLV 2019–2019: ranked 47th the year before he arrived, 31st at its best — went backwards.

SMU: just hired, no season coached yet.

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