Bryan Fischer of Sports Illustrated recently ranked the ACC football coaching jobs into tiers. Where did NC State land?
Best Job: Miami
Elite: FSU & Clemson
Aspiring: Louisville, SMU, North Carolina and Duke
Wax and Wane: Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, NC State, Virginia and Pittsburgh
The Base: California, Stanford, Syracuse, Wake Forest and Boston College
Here’s how Fischer defined the Wax and Wane tier:
This is basically the old ACC Coastal crew, with honorary member NC State, that traded the division title around all the time but never could quite break through a glass ceiling.