The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Jay Johnson.

Offensive coordinator · 10 seasons · 5 stints · 5 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.32#472 of 472 · less than most

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 3Year 4Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203n=102median still in the jobnot a pathLouisiana, year 1: 76th percentileLouisiana, year 2: 44th percentileLouisianaMinnesota, year 1: 21st percentileMinnesotaColorado, year 1: 40th percentileColoradoMichigan State, year 1: 4th percentileMichigan State, year 2: 60th percentileMichigan State, year 3: 32nd percentileMichigan State, year 4: 2nd percentileMichigan StWyoming, year 1: 6th percentileWyoming, year 2: 5th percentileWyoming
Louisiana 2014–2015
Minnesota 2016–2016
Colorado 2019–2019
Michigan State 2020–2023
Wyoming 2024–2025
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Louisiana, 2 years
−32.0
76.2 to 44.1 percentile.
Michigan State, 4 years
−1.7
3.5 to 1.9 percentile.
Wyoming, 2 years
−0.8
5.6 to 4.8 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
2014–2015Louisianano record76.276.2−2.4
2016–2016Minnesota54.320.720.7−30.4
2019–2019Colorado8.839.639.6−14.3
2020–2023Michigan State14.23.559.6−33.4
2024–2025Wyoming55.35.65.6−31.2

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

Minnesota 2016–2016: ranked 54th the year before he arrived, 21st at its best — went backwards.

Wyoming 2024–2025: ranked 55th the year before he arrived, 6th at its best — went backwards.

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