The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Robert Anae.

Offensive coordinator · 11 seasons · 5 stints · 5 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.01#210 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 5Year 6Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405n=203n=102n=58n=27median still in the jobnot a pathBYU, year 1: 74th percentileBYU, year 2: 71st percentileBYUVirginia, year 1: 7th percentileVirginia, year 2: 7th percentileVirginia, year 3: 63rd percentileVirginia, year 4: 66th percentileVirginia, year 5: 64th percentileVirginia, year 6: 80th percentileVirginiaSyracuse, year 1: 46th percentileSyracuseNC State, year 1: 46th percentileNC State, year 2: 77th percentileNC StateUtah State: just hired
BYU 2014–2015
Virginia 2016–2021
Syracuse 2022–2022
NC State 2023–2024
Utah State 2026–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
BYU, 2 years
−3.1
73.8 to 70.7 percentile.
Virginia, 6 years
+73.7
6.6 to 80.4 percentile.
NC State, 2 years
+31.0
46.2 to 77.2 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
2014–2015BYUno record73.873.8+20.5
2016–2021Virginia52.76.680.4−4.4
2022–2022Syracuse38.846.246.2−4.0
2023–2024NC State16.446.277.2+5.5
2026–2026Utah Stateno record

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

Utah State: just hired, no season coached yet.

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