Two of the most common, if subjective, measures of a coach’s abilities are his or her facility for both developing players and leading a team to coalesce as a season progresses.
To get a read on who’s cutting it as a high-quality ACC competitor, let’s look at team performance under the 10 coaches who’ve been in the league at least six years. That is, since minimally successful Jim Christian arrived at Boston College and Danny Manning at Wake Forest. (In a decade running their teams, the pair combined for one NCAA bid and one in the NIT.)
Set aside the preliminaries — the early, nonconference portion of the schedule that’s largely discretionary — and focus on mandatory, predatory ACC competition.