The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Brian Wright.

Offensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.06not 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=755n=426n=222n=113Florida Atlantic, year 1: 34th percentileFlorida Atlantic, year 2: 13th percentileFlorida AtlanticToledo, year 1: 93rd percentileToledo, year 2: 87th percentileToledo, year 3: 66th percentileToledo, year 4: 49th percentileToledomedian still in the job
Florida Atlantic 2014–2015
Toledo 2016–2019
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Florida Atlantic, 2 years
▼ 21.1
34.0 to 12.9 percentile.
Toledo, 4 years
▼ 44.5
93.4 to 48.8 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
2014–2015Florida Atlantic34.834.034.0▼ 31.0
2016–2019Toledo80.993.493.4▲ 28.6

Florida Atlantic 2014–2015: ranked 35th the year before he arrived, 34th at its best — went backwards.

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