The Zeitgeist List · coordinating

Bob Diaco

Defensive coordinator across 3 programs, 3 stints, before and after wearing the head-coach hat — every season measured on the same axis, whether he personally ran the unit or someone else did.

100th — best in the country90th — elite — top 10%75th — top quarter50th — national median25th — bottom quarter0 — worst in the countryHis unit’s national rank, by season’14’15’16’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26UConn · HEAD COACHNebraskaPurdue← RETURNED TO COORDINATINGNebraska, 2017Nebraska ranked 49th percentile the year before he arrived○ what he walked intoNebraska 2017: 4th percentile nationallyLouisiana Tech ranked 70th percentile the year before he arrivedLouisiana Tech 2019: 87th percentile nationallyPurdue ranked 37th percentile the year before he arrivedPurdue 2020: 42nd percentile nationallyUConn 2014: 44th percentile (Anthony Poindexter ran the unit)UConn 2015: 81st percentile (Anthony Poindexter ran the unit)UConn 2016: 36th percentile (Anthony Poindexter ran the unit)87th, career bestLouisiana Tech, 201936th percentile
How to read this. Coordinator seasons come from coordinator_journeys(); head-coaching-era seasons are the same unit's FBS-relative percentile for those years, regardless of who coached it, read directly from staff_assignments. A role change (a “hinge”) is a fact, never a performance verdict — only the season-by-season data itself is colored by outcome.