The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Josh Henson.

Offensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 3 stints · 3 programs2 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.12#408 of 472 · less 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 2Year 3Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203median still in the jobnot a pathMissouri, year 1: 62nd percentileMissouri, year 2: 4th percentileMissouriUSC, year 1: 99th percentileUSC, year 2: 97th percentileUSC, year 3: 71st percentileUSCPurdue, year 1: 17th percentilePurdue
Missouri 2014–2015
USC 2022–2024
Purdue 2025–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Missouri, 2 years
−58.6
62.1 to 3.5 percentile.
USC, 3 years
−27.6
98.9 to 71.3 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
2014–2015Missourino record62.162.1−53.6
2022–2024USC48.198.998.9+23.4
2025–2026Purdue6.316.516.5−36.3

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

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