The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Jimmie Dougherty.

Offensive coordinator · 2 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.09#98 of 472 · 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.

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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691median still in the jobnot a pathSan José State, year 1: 41st percentileSan José StateWashington, year 1: 84th percentileWashington
San José State 2014–2014
Washington 2025–2025
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
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
2014–2014San José Stateno record41.041.0
2025–2025Washington65.384.284.2+27.4

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

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