The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Mike Canales.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.07#343 of 472 · 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 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 pathNorth Texas, year 1: 14th percentileNorth TexasUTEP, year 1: 4th percentileUTEP, year 2: 36th percentileUTEP, year 3: 38th percentileUTEP
North Texas 2014–2014
UTEP 2018–2020
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
UTEP, 3 years
+34.0
4.2 to 38.2 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
2014–2014North Texasno record13.713.7
2018–2020UTEP0.44.238.2−10.5

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

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