The 7th Floor · Apr 17, 2025
2025 The State of the ACC: Talent Development
This is a three-part series of posts on The State of the ACC in 2025
In part one of the series, I brought up the football question: is it the Jimmy’s and Joe’s or X’s and O’s? At the high school level, having enough Jimmy’s is good enough to win a state championship, development be damned.
At the college level, however, players have to be developed both on the practice field and in the weight room. As Urban Meyer famously said upon his hiring at OSU, ”(The strength coach is) the most important hire I made on this coaching staff.”