The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Kodi Burns.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 4 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%

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 pathAuburn, year 1: 61st percentileAuburn, year 2: 67th percentileAuburn, year 3: 71st percentileAuburnSouth Florida, year 1: 93rd percentileSouth FloridaAuburn: just hired
Auburn 2016–2018
South Florida 2025–2025
Auburn 2026–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Auburn, 3 years
+9.8
61.3 to 71.2 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
2016–2016Auburn58.261.361.3−6.5
2017–2018Auburn61.367.371.2+3.6
2025–2025South Florida54.993.093.0+41.7
2026–2026Auburnno record———

Auburn: just hired, no season coached yet.

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