The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Jonathan Brewer.

Offensive coordinator · 3 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.04#162 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405median still in the jobnot a pathSMU, year 1: 88th percentileSMUDuke, year 1: 16th percentileDuke, year 2: 88th percentileDuke
SMU 2023–2023
Duke 2024–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Duke, 3 years
+71.8
16.0 to 87.9 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
2023–2023SMU78.287.687.6+30.1
2024–2026Duke48.516.087.9+1.2
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