The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Andy Ludwig.

Offensive coordinator · 11 seasons · 3 stints · 3 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.00not distinguishable from zero
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 3Year 4Year 5Year 6Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=755n=426n=222n=113n=65n=32Wisconsin, year 1: 86th percentileWisconsinVanderbilt, year 1: 8th percentileVanderbilt, year 2: 39th percentileVanderbilt, year 3: 53rd percentileVanderbilt, year 4: 89th percentileVanderbiltUtah, year 1: 86th percentileUtah, year 2: 30th percentileUtah, year 3: 93rd percentileUtah, year 4: 90th percentileUtah, year 5: 18th percentileUtah, year 6: 10th percentileUtahmedian still in the job
Wisconsin 2014–2014
Vanderbilt 2015–2018
Utah 2019–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Vanderbilt, 4 years
▲ 80.6
8.2 to 88.8 percentile.
Utah, 6 years
▼ 75.7
85.8 to 10.1 percentile.
Median offensive coordinator
+0.5
first season to last, across 222 stints of 3+ years. 50.9% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2014–2014Wisconsin72.485.585.5—
2015–2018Vanderbilt1.28.288.8▼ 7.7
2019–2024Utah23.585.892.7▼ 2.4
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