You could look at this as a pinnacle moment for ACC coaching, a time of surpassing stability, endurance and accomplishment. Or you could see the coaching ranks as calcified, the best jobs taken, packed with guys comfortably ensconced in their current positions and approaches.
“Because I’ve been doing it so long, you go into work, you usually turn left at this light and maybe you should turn right, or just always pay attention to the light, I should say,” Mike Krzyzewski did say recently of Duke’s 2021 struggles. “That’s what we’re going through.”
Illustrating why we’d go with self-aware experience as a strength of the current veteran corps of ACC coaches.