The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Mike Shanahan.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 4 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.27#6 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405median still in the jobnot a pathJames Madison, year 1: 43rd percentileJames Madison, year 2: 76th percentileJames MadisonIndiana, year 1: 82nd percentileIndiana, year 2: 100th percentileIndiana
James Madison 2022–2023
Indiana 2024–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
James Madison, 2 years
+32.4
43.1 to 75.6 percentile.
Indiana, 3 years
+17.9
81.7 to 99.6 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
2022–2023James Madisonno record43.175.6+30.2
2024–2024Indiana39.581.781.7+29.5
2025–2025Indiana81.799.699.6+50.6
2026–2026Indianano record

No prior-season record for the first stop (James Madison, 2022) — the data floor starts there.

Indiana: just hired, no season coached yet.

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