Bad Career Move
by Ken Pomeroy on Monday, April 26, 2004
Frank Haith recently made the jump from associate head coach at Texas to head coach at Miami Florida. However, his chances for success in his first head coaching job are slim. I think it's safe to say that Miami comes into the ACC at the bottom, having won a combined 25 games over the last 2 years. The problem Haith faces is that the ACC is a conference with a glass ceiling. If you're at the bottom, you're not going up.
Since the 1991-92 season when the ACC last expanded, there have been 30 times that a team has racked up at least 11 conference losses in a season. Three teams account for 22 of those instances - Clemson (9), NC State (7), and Florida State (6). Among the other 6 teams, each has no more than 2 such seasons.
Here's that idea in table form...
Wins Expected Expected…