The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Glenn Spencer.

Defensive coordinator · 8 seasons · 4 stints · 4 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense+0.00#217 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.

100th — best in the country90th — elite — top 10%75th — top quarter50th — national median25th — bottom quarter0 — worst in the countryHis defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400n=218n=122median still in the jobnot a pathOklahoma State, year 1: 26th percentileOklahoma State, year 2: 22nd percentileOklahoma State, year 3: 47th percentileOklahoma State, year 4: 47th percentileOklahoma StCharlotte, year 1: 67th percentileCharlotteFlorida Atlantic, year 1: 81st percentileFlorida AtlanticSouth Florida, year 1: 30th percentileSouth Florida, year 2: 10th percentileSouth Florida
Oklahoma State 2014–2017
Charlotte 2018–2018
Florida Atlantic 2019–2019
South Florida 2020–2021
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Oklahoma State, 4 years
+21.1
26.2 to 47.3 percentile.
South Florida, 2 years
−19.9
30.3 to 10.4 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

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2017Oklahoma Stateno record26.247.3−17.2
2018–2018Charlotte22.766.566.5+32.5
2019–2019Florida Atlantic65.081.281.2+33.0
2020–2021South Florida52.730.330.3−28.4

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

South Florida 2020–2021: ranked 53rd the year before he arrived, 30th at its best — went backwards.

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