The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Tony Pecoraro.

Defensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 3 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense+0.07#165 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 pathSouthern Miss, year 1: 68th percentileSouthern Miss, year 2: 67th percentileSouthern MissFlorida Atlantic, year 1: 65th percentileFlorida AtlanticSouthern Miss, year 1: 31st percentileSouthern Miss
Southern Miss 2016–2017
Florida Atlantic 2018–2018
Southern Miss 2020–2020
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Southern Miss, 2 years
−1.8
68.4 to 66.5 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
2016–2017Southern Miss77.768.468.4+21.6
2018–2018Florida Atlantic63.565.065.0+15.2
2020–2020Southern Miss65.831.131.1−13.2

Southern Miss 2016–2017: ranked 78th the year before he arrived, 68th at its best — went backwards.

Southern Miss 2020–2020: ranked 66th the year before he arrived, 31st at its best — went backwards.

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