The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Marcus Satterfield.

Offensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 4 stints · 3 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.09#375 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405median still in the jobnot a pathTemple, year 1: 2nd percentileTemple, year 2: 36th percentileTempleSouth Carolina, year 1: 22nd percentileSouth Carolina, year 2: 66th percentileSouth Caroli…Nebraska, year 1: 26th percentileNebraska, year 2: 46th percentileNebraska
Temple 2014–2015
South Carolina 2021–2022
Nebraska 2023–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Temple, 2 years
+34.4
2.0 to 36.3 percentile.
South Carolina, 2 years
+44.1
21.9 to 66.0 percentile.
Nebraska, 2 years
+20.0
25.9 to 45.9 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
2014–2015Templeno record2.036.3−8.8
2021–2022South Carolina43.721.966.0−17.2
2023–2023Nebraska36.325.925.9−35.4
2024–2024Nebraska25.945.945.9−14.9

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

Nebraska 2023–2023: ranked 36th the year before he arrived, 26th at its best — went backwards.

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