The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach
Jesse Minter.
Defensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 3 stints · 3 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense+0.36#27 of 458 · more 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.
Georgia State 2014–2016
Vanderbilt 2021–2021
Michigan 2022–2023
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Georgia State, 3 years
+75.8
2.0 to 77.7 percentile.
Michigan, 2 years
+16.0
82.8 to 98.9 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
| Years | Program | Walked into | Year 1 | Best | Vs. talent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014–2016 | Georgia State | no record | 2.0 | 79.3 | +42.9 |
| 2021–2021 | Vanderbilt | 0.4 | 11.2 | 11.2 | −40.7 |
| 2022–2023 | Michigan | 89.6 | 82.8 | 98.9 | +27.7 |
No prior-season record for the first stop (Georgia State, 2014) — the data floor starts there.