The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Scott Stoker.

Defensive coordinator · 3 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.08#282 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=659n=400median still in the jobnot a pathUTEP, year 1: 25th percentileUTEP, year 2: 64th percentileUTEPUL Monroe, year 1: 2nd percentileUL Monroe
UTEP 2014–2015
UL Monroe 2020–2020
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
UTEP, 2 years
+39.8
24.6 to 64.5 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
2014–2015UTEPno record24.664.5+33.6
2020–2020UL Monroe9.62.02.0−36.1

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

UL Monroe 2020–2020: ranked 10th the year before he arrived, 2nd at its best — went backwards.

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