The Zeitgeist List · coordinating

Everett Withers

Defensive coordinator across 2 programs, 2 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’14’15’16’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26Texas State · HEAD COACHTemple · DC← RETURNED TO COORDINATINGFlorida International, 2021Florida International ranked 56th percentile the year before he arrived○ what he walked intoFlorida International 2021: 3rd percentile nationallyTemple ranked 29th percentile the year before he arrivedTemple 2023: 9th percentile nationallyTemple 2024: 27th percentile nationallyTexas State 2016: 7th percentile (Randall McCray ran the unit)Texas State 2017: 33rd percentile (Randall McCray ran the unit)Texas State 2018: 63rd percentile (Chris Woods ran the unit)27th, career bestTemple, 20247th 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.