The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Scot Sloan.

Defensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.03#245 of 458 · 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 defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400n=218n=122median still in the jobnot a pathGeorgia Southern, year 1: 46th percentileGeorgia Southern, year 2: 54th percentileGeorgia Southern, year 3: 67th percentileGeorgia Southern, year 4: 21st percentileGeorgia Sout…App State, year 1: 56th percentileApp State, year 2: 24th percentileApp State
Georgia Southern 2018–2021
App State 2023–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Georgia Southern, 4 years
−24.6
45.8 to 21.2 percentile.
App State, 2 years
−32.5
56.0 to 23.5 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
2018–2021Georgia Southern38.145.867.3+8.3
2023–2024App State47.756.056.0−7.0
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