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LAMM AT LARGE: Top 5 ACC Coaches of My Career

todayJuly 28, 2022

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Like in the SEC, naming the top five football coaches in the ACC during my career isn’t an easy task.
Oh, the top two are easy. I give FSU’s Bobby Bowden a slight edge over Clemson’s Dabo Swinney because of how long Bowden led the Seminoles.
Frank Beamer’s long career at Virginia Tech produced a lot of good teams. The Hokies played for the national title in ’99. He’s a solid No. 3.
But next the next two could be debated without coming to a conclusion.
At No. 4, I’m going with another Clemson coach, Danny Ford, who won went 96 -29-4 in the 80s and won a national title.
No. 5 is Suitcase George Welsh of Virginia. He inherited one of the weakest programs in the nation in the 90s and made the Cavaliers more than respectable.
Miami couldn’t keep a coach long enough for one to make the list. Bobby Ross bounced around too much.
But the coach I hated leaving off the most is Jim Grobe for what he did in a decade-long career at Wake Forest.

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