The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach
George McDonald.
Offensive coordinator · 3 seasons · 3 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
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.
Syracuse 2014–2014
NC State 2019–2020
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
NC State, 2 years
+39.6
8.1 to 47.6 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
| Years | Program | Walked into | Year 1 | Best | Vs. talent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2014 | Syracuse | no record | 4.3 | 4.3 | — |
| 2019–2019 | NC State | 56.5 | 8.1 | 8.1 | −48.7 |
| 2020–2020 | NC State | 8.1 | 47.6 | 47.6 | −10.3 |
No prior-season record for the first stop (Syracuse, 2014) — the data floor starts there.
NC State 2019–2019: ranked 57th the year before he arrived, 8th at its best — went backwards.