The Zeitgeist List · coordinators · never a head coach

Troy Walters.

Offensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense−0.01#231 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=691n=405median still in the jobnot a pathUCF, year 1: 5th percentileUCF, year 2: 96th percentileUCFNebraska, year 1: 77th percentileNebraska, year 2: 33rd percentileNebraska
UCF 2016–2017
Nebraska 2018–2019
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
UCF, 2 years
+90.7
5.1 to 95.8 percentile.
Nebraska, 2 years
−43.8
76.5 to 32.7 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
2016–2017UCF2.75.195.8−0.2
2018–2019Nebraska37.376.576.5−5.4
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