The ACC Coastal has been to the Atlantic as the SEC East is to the West — a pint-sized little brother. That mightn’t be true much longer.
Three Coastal teams just changed coaches. One changed after the 2014 season. That’s a 57 percent turnover in a seven-team division, and a case can be made that each school improved itself. Mark Richt, now of Miami, is better than Al Golden. Pat Narduzzi, the longtime Michigan State defensive coordinator who lifted Pitt from 6-7 to 8-4, is an upgrade over Paul Chryst. Justin Fuente, imported from Memphis, should do better at Virginia Tech than Frank Beamer had done lately.