When Mike Krzyzewski got to Duke in 1980, replacing Bill Foster, the ACC was brutal. Brutal!
Dean Smith was near his zenith at UNC. Lefty Driesell was just a decade into his amazing run at Maryland. NC State had a young and vibrant Jim Valvano and Georgia Tech would hire Bobby Cremins a year later. Carl Tacy was having a good run at Wake Forest and Bill Foster (the other Bill Foster) was doing well at Clemson.
And Virginia was very happy with Terry Holland.
A former Driesell assistant at Davidson, Holland moved to Charlottesville for the 1974-75 season and in just his second year, won the ACC Tournament, something Virginia had never done before.