The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Mike Johnson.

Offensive coordinator · 3 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.08#366 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 pathFlorida Atlantic, year 1: 29th percentileFlorida AtlanticSyracuse, year 1: 91st percentileSyracuse, year 2: 4th percentileSyracuse
Florida Atlantic 2021–2021
Syracuse 2024–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Syracuse, 3 years
−86.6
90.7 to 4.0 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
2021–2021Florida Atlantic32.728.828.8−19.9
2024–2026Syracuse10.990.790.7−8.5

Florida Atlantic 2021–2021: ranked 33rd the year before he arrived, 29th at its best — went backwards.

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