The Zeitgeist List · Coordinators · Never a head coach

Travis Williams.

Defensive coordinator · 5 seasons · 2 stints · 2 programs0 seasons ranked in the national top 10%
Own effect on the unit
Defense−0.05not 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=235UCF, year 1: 63rd percentileUCF, year 2: 27th percentileUCFArkansas, year 1: 64th percentileArkansas, year 2: 57th percentileArkansas, year 3: 16th percentileArkansasmedian still in the job
UCF 2021–2022
Arkansas 2023–2025
Median of those still in the job, that year of a tenure. A shrinking pool, not a path.
UCF, 2 years
▼ 36.4
63.5 to 27.1 percentile.
Arkansas, 3 years
▼ 48.5
64.3 to 15.8 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
2021–2022UCF20.963.563.5▼ 7.8
2023–2025Arkansas17.264.364.3▼ 12.9
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