The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Mike DeBord.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.14not distinguishable from zero
model fit as of 2026-09-04

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=755n=426Tennessee, year 1: 63rd percentileTennessee, year 2: 88th percentileTennesseeIndiana, year 1: 39th percentileIndiana, year 2: 30th percentileIndianamedian still in the job
Tennessee 2015–2016
Indiana 2017–2018
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Tennessee, 2 years
▲ 25.0
62.9 to 87.9 percentile.
Indiana, 2 years
▼ 8.5
38.8 to 30.4 percentile.
Median offensive coordinator
+0.5
first season to last, across 222 stints of 3+ years. 50.9% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2015–2016Tennessee40.262.987.9▲ 11.1
2017–2018Indiana23.038.838.8▼ 16.8
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