The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Mike Denbrock.

Offensive coordinator · 10 seasons · 4 stints · 3 programs5 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.51#1 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 3Year 4Year 5Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203n=102n=58median still in the jobnot a pathNotre Dame, year 1: 71st percentileNotre DameCincinnati, year 1: 40th percentileCincinnati, year 2: 84th percentileCincinnati, year 3: 59th percentileCincinnati, year 4: 89th percentileCincinnati, year 5: 97th percentileCincinnatiLSU, year 1: 92nd percentileLSU, year 2: 99th percentileLSUNotre Dame, year 1: 99th percentileNotre Dame, year 2: 95th percentileNotre Dame
Notre Dame 2014–2014
Cincinnati 2017–2021
LSU 2022–2023
Notre Dame 2024–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Cincinnati, 5 years
+56.9
39.6 to 96.5 percentile.
LSU, 2 years
+6.9
92.0 to 98.9 percentile.
Notre Dame, 3 years
−3.7
98.9 to 95.2 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
2014–2014Notre Dameno record70.770.7
2017–2021Cincinnati9.839.696.5+22.8
2022–2023LSU36.592.098.9+27.8
2024–2026Notre Dame93.698.998.9+30.6

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

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