The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Brian Norwood.

Defensive coordinator · 5 seasons · 3 stints · 3 programs0 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 defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=730n=430n=235Tulsa, year 1: 8th percentileTulsa, year 2: 73rd percentileTulsa, year 3: 7th percentileTulsaKansas State, year 1: 50th percentileKansas StateNavy, year 1: 74th percentileNavymedian still in the job
Tulsa 2015–2017
Kansas State 2018–2018
Navy 2019–2019
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Tulsa, 3 years
▼ 0.9
8.2 to 7.3 percentile.
Median defensive coordinator
+0.5
first season to last, across 235 stints of 3+ years. 50.6% improve at all.

Every stop on the calendar

YearsProgramWalked intoYear 1BestVs. talent
2015–2017Tulsa6.68.273.0▼ 16.2
2018–2018Kansas State28.150.450.4▼ 0.2
2019–2019Navy15.074.274.2▲ 37.5
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