The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Matt Canada.

Offensive coordinator · 5 seasons · 4 stints · 4 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.17#35 of 472 · more 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 pathNC State, year 1: 80th percentileNC State, year 2: 65th percentileNC StPittsburgh, year 1: 90th percentilePittsburghLSU, year 1: 83rd percentileLSUMaryland, year 1: 37th percentileMaryland
NC State 2014–2015
Pittsburgh 2016–2016
LSU 2017–2017
Maryland 2018–2018
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
NC State, 2 years
−14.8
80.1 to 65.2 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
2014–2015NC Stateno record80.180.1+10.4
2016–2016Pittsburgh62.190.290.2+33.4
2017–2017LSU80.182.782.7+14.0
2018–2018Maryland12.736.536.5−23.7

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

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