The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Matt Guerrieri.

Defensive coordinator · 5 seasons · 2 stints · 2 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 4Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=730n=430n=235n=124Duke, year 1: 47th percentileDuke, year 2: 59th percentileDuke, year 3: 7th percentileDuke, year 4: 0th percentileDukeIndiana, year 1: 14th percentileIndianamedian still in the job
Duke 2018–2021
Indiana 2023–2023
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Duke, 4 years
▼ 46.9
47.3 to 0.4 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
2018–2021Duke81.947.358.8▼ 25.2
2023–2023Indiana26.313.913.9▼ 40.1

Duke 2018–2021: ranked 82nd the year before he arrived, 59th at its best — went backwards.

Indiana 2023–2023: ranked 26th the year before he arrived, 14th at its best — went backwards.

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