The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Kevin Clune.

Defensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 3 stints · 3 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.05#261 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 pathHawai'i, year 1: 25th percentileHawai'iUtah State, year 1: 68th percentileUtah StateOregon State, year 1: 67th percentileOregon State, year 2: 3rd percentileOregon St
Hawai'i 2014–2014
Utah State 2015–2015
Oregon State 2016–2017
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Oregon State, 2 years
−64.1
66.8 to 2.7 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
2014–2014Hawai'ino record25.425.4
2015–2015Utah State89.567.667.6+30.3
2016–2017Oregon State13.766.866.8−16.2

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

Utah State 2015–2015: ranked 89th the year before he arrived, 68th at its best — went backwards.

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