The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Phil Snow.

Defensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense+0.15#113 of 458 · 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 defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400n=218median still in the jobnot a pathTemple, year 1: 96th percentileTemple, year 2: 83rd percentileTemple, year 3: 89th percentileTempleBaylor, year 1: 33rd percentileBaylor, year 2: 8th percentileBaylor, year 3: 83rd percentileBaylor
Temple 2014–2016
Baylor 2017–2019
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Temple, 3 years
−6.2
95.7 to 89.5 percentile.
Baylor, 3 years
+50.0
33.5 to 83.5 percentile.
Median defensive coordinator
+1.0
first season to last, across 239 stints of 3+ years. 52.3% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2016Templeno record95.795.7+39.1
2017–2019Baylor62.933.583.5−15.1

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

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