The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Mike Yurcich.

Offensive coordinator · 9 seasons · 4 stints · 3 programs1 season ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.22not 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 5Year of that tenure, not calendar yearn=755n=426n=222n=113n=65Oklahoma State, year 1: 43rd percentileOklahoma State, year 2: 75th percentileOklahoma State, year 3: 89th percentileOklahoma State, year 4: 93rd percentileOklahoma State, year 5: 88th percentileOklahoma StTexas, year 1: 88th percentileTexasPenn State, year 1: 25th percentilePenn State, year 2: 80th percentilePenn State, year 3: 85th percentilePenn Statemedian still in the job
Oklahoma State 2014–2018
Texas 2020–2020
Penn State 2021–2023
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Oklahoma State, 5 years
▲ 44.7
43.4 to 88.1 percentile.
Penn State, 3 years
▲ 60.3
25.0 to 85.3 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
2014–2018Oklahoma State50.843.493.5▲ 30.1
2020–2020Texas91.287.887.8▲ 18.3
2021–2022Penn State64.225.079.8▼ 11.0
2023–2023Penn State79.885.385.3▲ 20.8

Texas 2020–2020: ranked 91st the year before he arrived, 88th at its best — went backwards.

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