The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Joey Lynch.

Offensive coordinator · 9 seasons · 3 stints · 3 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.19not 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 offense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5Year 6Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=755n=426n=222n=113n=65n=32Ball State, year 1: 46th percentileBall State, year 2: 15th percentileBall State, year 3: 40th percentileBall State, year 4: 7th percentileBall State, year 5: 43rd percentileBall State, year 6: 80th percentileBall StColorado State, year 1: 11th percentileColorado StateVanderbilt, year 1: 21st percentileVanderbilt, year 2: 13th percentileVanderbiltmedian still in the job
Ball State 2014–2019
Colorado State 2020–2020
Vanderbilt 2022–2023
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Ball State, 6 years
▲ 33.9
46.5 to 80.4 percentile.
Vanderbilt, 2 years
▼ 7.8
21.0 to 13.2 percentile.
Median offensive coordinator
+0.5
first season to last, across 222 stints of 3+ years. 50.9% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2019Ball State66.046.580.4▼ 0.4
2020–2020Colorado State45.810.610.6▼ 34.3
2022–2023Vanderbilt5.821.021.0▼ 34.8

Colorado State 2020–2020: ranked 46th the year before he arrived, 11th at its best — went backwards.

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