The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Mike Lynch.

Offensive coordinator · 5 seasons · 3 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.06#140 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 4Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203n=102median still in the jobnot a pathBowling Green, year 1: 97th percentileBowling GreenSyracuse, year 1: 18th percentileSyracuse, year 2: 27th percentileSyracuse, year 3: 55th percentileSyracuse, year 4: 32nd percentileSyracuse
Bowling Green 2015–2015
Syracuse 2016–2019
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Syracuse, 4 years
+14.3
17.6 to 31.9 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
2015–2015Bowling Green31.697.397.3+50.5
2016–2017Syracuse18.417.627.3−27.5
2018–2019Syracuse27.355.055.0−8.2
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