The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Keith Dudzinski.

Defensive coordinator · 4 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.13not 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 defense’s national rank, by year of tenureYear 1Year 2Year 3Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=730n=430n=235Maryland, year 1: 54th percentileMarylandMassachusetts, year 1: 30th percentileMassachusetts, year 2: 11th percentileMassachusetts, year 3: 8th percentileMassachusettsmedian still in the job
Maryland 2015–2015
Massachusetts 2022–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Massachusetts, 3 years
▼ 22.3
30.2 to 7.8 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
2015–2015Maryland33.253.553.5▼ 0.3
2022–2024Massachusetts1.930.230.2▼ 27.5
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