The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Seth Doege.

Offensive coordinator · 3 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.13#61 of 472 · more than most
model fit as of 2026-09-04

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=749n=434median still in the jobnot a pathMarshall, year 1: 59th percentileMarshallArizona, year 1: 64th percentileArizona, year 2: 21st percentileArizona
Marshall 2024–2024
Arizona 2025–2026
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Arizona, 2 years
−43.0
64.3 to 21.4 percentile.
Median offensive coordinator
−0.6
first season to last, across 222 stints of 3+ years. 48.6% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2024–2024Marshall28.958.658.6+11.5
2025–2026Arizona16.864.364.3+14.3
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