The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Travis Trickett.

Offensive coordinator · 6 seasons · 4 stints · 4 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Offense+0.07not 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 of that tenure, not calendar yearn=755n=426Florida Atlantic, year 1: 45th percentileFlorida AtlanticGeorgia State, year 1: 25th percentileGeorgia State, year 2: 53rd percentileGeorgia StSouth Florida, year 1: 68th percentileSouth FloridaCoastal Carolina, year 1: 66th percentileCoastal Carolina, year 2: 28th percentileCoastal Caro…median still in the job
Florida Atlantic 2016–2016
Georgia State 2017–2018
South Florida 2022–2022
Coastal Carolina 2023–2024
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
Georgia State, 2 years
▲ 27.7
25.0 to 52.7 percentile.
Coastal Carolina, 2 years
▼ 37.8
65.8 to 28.0 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
2016–2016Florida Atlantic12.944.944.9▲ 1.5
2017–2018Georgia State32.425.052.7▼ 4.0
2022–2022South Florida26.567.667.6▲ 18.0
2023–2024Coastal Carolina69.165.865.8▲ 1.5

Coastal Carolina 2023–2024: ranked 69th the year before he arrived, 66th at its best — went backwards.

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