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In the following tables, we list each head coach, how long he has been at his current ACC job, his record at that school, and the number of ACC championships and national championships won at his current school. We'll start with the football coaches.

This table illuminates how Bobby Bowden and Frank Beamer are truly the giants of ACC head football coaches. (You could argue that Bowden is on Tier 1, Frank is Tier 2, and everyone else is Tier 3.) Their 53 combined years at their two schools is more than the other 10 coaches combined (44 years). Beamer and Bowden have 439 victories at their current schools; the rest of the ACC's coaches, just 226.

But because the table only includes years, records, and championships at their current schools, it gives short shrift to Tom O'Brien and Butch Davis, who have had successful college coaching careers but are entering their first seasons at their current jobs. Davis was 47-20 in six seasons at Miami (1995-2000), and his player recruitment and development paved the way for the great Miami teams of 2001 and 2002.

O'Brien, meanwhile, went 75-45 in 10 seasons as Boston College's head coach before taking the NC State job. Between Davis and O'Brien, that's 122 victories -- at current ACC schools, no less -- that aren't included in the table.

If you're looking for true newbies among the ACC head coaching ranks, they are Jeff Jagodzinski and Randy Shannon. Neither one has ever been a head coach at any level.

A look at a similar table for ACC basketball coaches reveals the same dynamic: Two guys at the top, similar to Bowden and Beamer, but with a caveat.

Like FSU's Bowden in football, there's one basketball coach (Mike Krzyzewski) who has been doing it longer than anyone else in the ACC, in dominating fashion. The similarity between the number of years coached at their schools (32 and 28), the number of ACC championships (12 and 10), and the number of national championships (2 and 3) is remarkable.

Gary Williams is the basketball equivalent of Frank Beamer, with roughly 20 years tenure at his school and a conference championship. The difference, of course, is that Williams has won a national championship, while Beamer has not. (Insert obligatory 1999, oh-so-close reference here.)

Beyond Coach K and Gary Williams, the comparison between football and basketball coaches starts to break down. Tommy Bowden and Al Skinner are similar in terms of length of tenure, but Skinner is much more secure at Boston College than Bowden is at Clemson.

In the middle of both lists are some solid coaches, guys who have had some success but might be at the end of their stay at their current schools: Al Groh in football and Skip Prosser in basketball are two guys who aren't exactly on the hot seat right now, but they haven't had their best seasons lately, and fans are watching for improvement. Guys like Jim Grobe and Ralph Friedgen in football and Paul Hewitt and Oliver Purnell in basketball might go on to have long, illustrious careers at their current jobs, or they may not. Time will tell.

Towards the bottom of the basketball list is a guy who really stands out: Roy Williams at UNC. Williams is a distinguished, decorated coach who won a lot of games at another school (418 wins at Kansas, where the Jayhawks were national runners-up twice) and who has already won a conference championship and a national championship in the ACC.

If you look for someone similar at the bottom of the football list, you can't find him. Williams is similar in one respect to football's Tom O'Brien -- both had long, successful stints at other schools before arriving at their current school -- but Williams achieved at a higher level than O'Brien.

One huge difference between the two lists are the number of head coaches new at their school in football (four) and the complete lack of coaching changes in basketball in the last year.

What will you see when you look at these lists again in 10 years? On the football side, Bobby Bowden and Frank Beamer will probably be gone. If either one still remains in a decade, it's huge news. The coaches most likely to be around, and be the new deans of the ACC, are Jim Grobe (who recently signed a 10-year extension), Ralph Friedgen (if his health holds up), and Tom O'Brien. I wouldn't be surprised, though, to see a completely clean slate on the football side.

On the basketball side, ten years from now Roy Williams will be 67, Mike Krzyzewski will be 70, and Gary Williams will be 72. Hard to believe, isn't it? As vibrant as all three seem now, they might all be retired by then. Al Skinner, who seems to be a good fit at his school, will be 65. Looking up and down the basketball list, it's hard to guess who, if anyone, will be around in ten years. Dave Leitao's got a chance, as does Sidney Lowe, but the guy who really might stay put is Paul Hewitt, a spring chicken who will be just 53 years old ten years from now.

More than likely, though, the college head coaching carousel will chew up and spit out all 24 coaches on these lists in the next ten years. Guys like Bowden, Beamer, and Krzyzewski, guys who spend more than ten years in one place, are a dying breed. It's the nature of college sports these days.