The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Greg Gasparato.

Defensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 3 stints · 3 programs3 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense+0.39not 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 defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=730n=430Army, year 1: 90th percentileArmyTroy, year 1: 97th percentileTroyTulane, year 1: 92nd percentileTulane, year 2: 60th percentileTulanemedian still in the job
Army 2020–2020
Troy 2023–2023
Tulane 2024–2025
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Tulane, 2 years
▼ 32.2
92.2 to 59.9 percentile.
Median defensive coordinator
+0.5
first season to last, across 235 stints of 3+ years. 50.6% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2020–2020Army33.590.290.2▲ 61.7
2023–2023Troy94.397.497.4▲ 54.2
2024–2025Tulane56.892.292.2▲ 25.4
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