The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

John Papuchis.

Defensive coordinator · 3 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.09#291 of 458 · 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 defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400median still in the jobnot a pathNebraska, year 1: 50th percentileNebraskaNorth Carolina, year 1: 39th percentileNorth Carolina, year 2: 33rd percentileNorth Caroli…
Nebraska 2014–2014
North Carolina 2017–2018
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
North Carolina, 2 years
−5.4
38.8 to 33.5 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

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2014Nebraskano record50.450.4
2017–2018North Carolina48.038.838.8−22.4

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

North Carolina 2017–2018: ranked 48th the year before he arrived, 39th at its best — went backwards.

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