The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Jim Zebrowski.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 4 stints · 2 programs3 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.01#203 of 472 · 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 offense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203median still in the jobnot a pathBuffalo, year 1: 96th percentileBuffaloKansas, year 1: 97th percentileKansas, year 2: 94th percentileKansas, year 3: 68th percentileKansas
Buffalo 2020–2020
Kansas 2023–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Kansas, 4 years
−29.4
97.4 to 68.0 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
2020–2020Buffalo75.096.596.5+63.0
2023–2023Kansas91.297.497.4+46.3
2024–2024Kansas97.494.494.4+40.4
2025–2026Kansas94.468.068.0+13.8

Kansas 2024–2024: ranked 97th the year before he arrived, 94th at its best — went backwards.

Kansas 2025–2026: ranked 94th the year before he arrived, 68th at its best — went backwards.

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