Question:  Ruffin Horne McNeill Jr. an American football coach was named interim head coach after the suspension of a head coach that lead the team to winning seasons in every year of his what?

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Ken Henderson (baseball coach)
Ken Henderson (born September 27, 1960) is an American college baseball coach with the Southern Illinois Salukis baseball team.
 He was named interim head coach before the 2011 season, after Dan Callahan died.
 Henderson had also served as interim head coach for the final 20 games of the 1994 season.
 He was named permanent head coach after the 2011 season.
June Jones
June Sheldon Jones III (born February 19, 1953) is an American football coach and former player, currently serving as a head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
 He was the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU), where he served as head coach from 2008 to 2014, before resigning on September 8, 2014.
 Jones was also the head football coach at the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1999 to 2007.
 Previously, he coached in the National Football League (NFL): a three-year tenure as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons from 1994 to 1996 and a ten-game stint as interim head coach of the San Diego Chargers in 1998.
Pat Cerroni
Pat Cerroni (born c. 1965) is an American football coach.
 He is the head football coach at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
 Cerroni was named interim head coach at Wisconsin–Oshkosh in January 2007.
 The interim tag was removed in December of that year.
Mike Leach (American football coach)
Michael Charles Leach (born March 9, 1961) is an American college football coach.
 He is the head coach of the Washington State Cougars football team.
 Previously, he was head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football team, leading the Red Raiders to winning seasons in every year of his tenure.
Perry Fewell
Perry Fewell (born September 7, 1962) is the American football defensive backs coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
 He last served as the defensive backs coach for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL).
 Before that he served as the interim head coach and defensive coordinator of the NFL's Buffalo Bills.
 He was named interim head coach after serving as the team's defensive coordinator from 2006 to 2009 under head coach Dick Jauron.
 Most recently, Fewell was the defensive coordinator of the New York Giants.
2012 New Orleans Saints season
The 2012 New Orleans Saints season was the franchise's 46th season in the National Football League, and the 37th with home games at the Superdome.
 It "was" going to be the seventh season under head coach Sean Payton; however, he was suspended by the NFL for the entire 2012 season as part of the punishment for the team's bounty scandal.
 On April 12, 2012, linebackers coach Joe Vitt was named interim head coach to replace Sean Payton while he served his one-year suspension.
 On August 22, 2012, it was announced that Aaron Kromer would take over while Vitt himself served a six-game suspension to start the regular season.
 The Saints attempted to make history as the first host team to play the Super Bowl on their own home field, but they were eliminated from post-season contention in Week 16.
 The Saints set an NFL record for most yards given up by a defense, 7,042 yards, surpassing the 1981 Baltimore Colts record of 6,793 yards.
Ernie Hefferle
Ernest Edward Hefferle (January 12, 1915 – August 8, 2000) was an American football player and coach.
 He served as head football coach at Boston College from 1960 to 1961 and as the interim head coach for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) in 1975.
 A football star at Duquesne University, Hefferle pulled in a fourth quarter bomb from Boyd Brombaugh to win the 1937 Orange Bowl for the Dukes.
 He served as a high school coach in South Huntingdon, Pennsylvania and Tarentum, Pennsylvania from 1947 to 1950.
 From 1951 to 1958, he was assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh.
 In 1959, he was an assistant under Mike Nixon with the Washington Redskins.
 He was head coach of the Boston College Eagles from 1960 to 1961, where he had a 7–12–1 record.
 On December 21, 1961 he resigned his position as head coach.
 From 1962 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1971, he was again and assistant at the University of Pittsburgh.
 In 1965, he served under former boss Mike Nixon on the Pittsburgh Steelers coaching staff.
 In 1975 Hefferle, then the Saints' director of pro personnel was hired as interim head after the firing of John North.
 He had a record 1–7 in his one half season as the Saints interim head coach.
Ruffin McNeill
Ruffin Horne McNeill Jr. (born October 8, 1958) is an American football coach and former player.
 He is currently the assistant head coach and defensive tackles coach at the University of Oklahoma.
 He was previously the assistant head coach and defensive line coach at the University of Virginia.
 McNeill also served as the head coach of the East Carolina Pirates from 2010 to 2015.
 Before being named head coach of the Pirates, McNeill served the Texas Tech Red Raiders as an interim head coach, assistant head coach, special teams coordinator, and linebackers coach.
 On December 28, 2009, he was named interim head coach of the Red Raiders following the suspension and later firing of head coach Mike Leach.
 He served in the position until the hiring of Tommy Tuberville, who subsequently released him as defensive coordinator.
Shawn Elliott (American football)
Shawn Elliott (born June 26, 1973) is an American football coach and former player, currently the head football coach at Georgia State University.
 He served as the interim head football coach at the University of South Carolina, a position he assumed on October 13, 2015.
 Elliott joined the South Carolina Gamecocks football coaching staff in 2010 as the team's running game coordinator under Steve Spurrier.
 He was later named the co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach.
 A day after South Carolina head coach Spurrier's resignation, Elliott was elevated to the position of head coach on an interim basis.
Fred Farrier
Frederick T. Farrier (born May 9, 1972) is an American football coach and former player.
 He is the head football coach at Morgan State University He served as the head football coach at Kentucky State University from 2005 to 2008, compiling a record of 19–25.
 He was let go as of July 24, 2009.
 Farrier played college football as a wide receiver at the College of the Holy Cross.
 He recently became the interim head coach at Morgan State on February 11, 2016 after their previous head coach Lee Hull accepted a position with the Indianapolis Colts in the National Football League (NFL).
 On December 9, 2016, Farrier was promoted from interim to full-time head coach.

Answer: tenure