In the middle of the college football offseason, we try not to judge article ideas too hard. It’s a struggle for hot #content when there haven’t been games in months and the season doesn’t kick off for months still afterward.
However, we can criticize the execution of said articles when they’re as far off as Gene Sapakoff’s ACC and SEC coach ranking piece was for the Post & Courier in Charleston, S.C.
I just... what?
Without even going into Syracuse Orange head coach Dino Babers’s ranking — which I’d say isn’t all that off base in terms of the placement — there are just a SLEW of issues here that imply a lack of basic understanding for what success is in college football (something that you would think is inherent to writing about college football, no?