The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Josh Gattis.

Offensive coordinator · 7 seasons · 5 stints · 4 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.06#323 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 pathAlabama, year 1: 99th percentileAlabamaMichigan, year 1: 68th percentileMichigan, year 2: 54th percentileMichigan, year 3: 83rd percentileMichiganMiami, year 1: 24th percentileMiamiMaryland, year 1: 57th percentileMaryland, year 2: 15th percentileMaryland
Alabama 2018–2018
Michigan 2019–2021
Miami 2022–2022
Maryland 2023–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Michigan, 3 years
+15.4
68.1 to 83.5 percentile.
Maryland, 2 years
−42.2
56.8 to 14.6 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
2018–2018Alabama89.698.898.8+24.8
2019–2020Michigan68.168.168.1−3.7
2021–2021Michigan53.983.583.5+20.0
2022–2022Miami77.324.024.0−40.4
2023–2024Maryland46.956.856.8−18.8

Miami 2022–2022: ranked 77th the year before he arrived, 24th at its best — went backwards.

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