The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Billy Gonzales.

Offensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs2 seasons ranked in the national top 10%

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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=755n=426n=222n=113Mississippi State, year 1: 90th percentileMississippi State, year 2: 86th percentileMississippi State, year 3: 84th percentileMississippi State, year 4: 50th percentileMississippi …Florida, year 1: 92nd percentileFlorida, year 2: 87th percentileFloridamedian still in the job
Mississippi State 2014–2017
Florida 2018–2019
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Mississippi State, 4 years
▼ 39.8
90.2 to 50.4 percentile.
Florida, 2 years
▼ 4.6
91.9 to 87.3 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
2014–2017Mississippi State64.490.290.2▲ 14.6
2018–2019Florida43.591.991.9▲ 25.6
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