Who has the 10 hottest seats in the ACC? (Football and Basketball combined)

In the last few months, we’ve done Hotseat rankings for football and Hotseat rankings for men’s basketball. 

What we haven’t done is combine the two biggest revenue sports in the ACC. Here is why this is important, if you have these 2 sports struggling, you are likely going to be making a decision. There are very few programs that can afford to make changes to both in the same calendar year.

So we’re looking deeper at who have the 10 hottest seats in the ACC, among the 29 head coach positions in the two sports.

We go from hottest to coldest 1-15

0 – Ice Cold Seat

1 – Still cool

2 – There’s smoke

3 – Getting Warm

4 – On Fire

5 – Start working on the resume

1. Geoff Collins, Georgia Tech  = 4.75 (Football)

Hey, at least Geoff Collins is at the top of at least one set of standings in the ACC. Let’s be honest the Collins tenure minus a couple of recruiting hits has been a total disaster. Sloppy play and embarrassing losses are now the norm at Georgia Tech. This program is better than this. There’s not a hotter seat in the entire ACC. Collins is in big trouble and he knows it.

2. Jeff Capel, Pittsburgh = 4.5 (Basketball)

Jeff Capel has been at Pittsburgh for four years and lost a whopping 53 ACC games, and in one of those years (2020), 4 Pitt ACC games weren’t even played. There’s no reason this program should be in this bad of shape, and this all happened in an ACC that had some recent down years.

3. Kevin Keatts, NC State = 4.5 (Basektball)

Once you get Collins and Capel, you start getting to coaches that have some relative success starting with Kevin Keatts. Keatts has a couple of NITs and an NCAA appearance in five years at NC State. There’s also a dead-last finish in the ACC in 2021-2022 and zero NCAA wins. Keatts needs a big season.

4. Brad Brownell, Clemson = 4.5 (Basketball) 

Clemson had a strong finish to the season, but comments by the new Clemson AD have made it clear the clocking is ticking on Brad Brownell. The Tigers have made the NCAA Tournament in 2 of the last 4 full seasons of basketball, but the program seems stuck in neutral. Usually decent, but rarely good. Brownell may need to make the NCAA tournament to make it past next season.

5. Scott Satterfield, Louisville = 4.25 (Football)

Scott Satterfield has eased some of the heat on him with a strong off-season of recruiting, but he shouldn’t feel comfortable. The Cardinals have had back-to-back losing seasons. They have fallen behind several programs in the ACC Atlantic, and behind their in-state rival Kentucky. If Louisville has another mediocre season, it may not matter how recruiting is going.

6. Dino Babers, Syracuse  = 4 (Football)

The 10-win 2018 season is looking more and more like lightning in a bottle than a foundation to bigger things for Dino Babers. Entering his seventh season, that’s the only year Babers has won more than 5 games. A similar year likely marks the end of Babers time in upstate New York.

7. Mike Norvell, Florida State = 3 (Football)

Mike Norvell enters his 3rd season at Florida State, and it’s time to start making a move. Back-to-back losing seasons aren’t going to cut it at FSU. Yes, there were signs of life in the second half of the year and a win over Miami, but the loss to Jacksonville State is one of the worst in Seminole history. The Nole administration fired baseball coach, Mike Martin Jr. after back-to-back NCAA Tournament appears. Norvell better take notice.

8. Josh Pastner, Georgia Tech = 2.5 (Basketball)

When you are the school with 2 coaches among the 8 hottest seats in ACC in football and basketball you’ve got a big problem. Yes, Josh Pastner won an ACC Title, but Brad Brownell went to the Sweet 16, and Babers had a top 15 year. Two coaches on this list have won national titles. The fact is Pastner has a losing overall record after six years at Georgia Tech and a 47-64 record in the ACC. Pastner’s saving grace may be Collins has turned the football program into such an unmitigated mess, that if you can only fire one in the next couple of years – it’s Collins.

9. Mack Brown, North Carolina = 2 (Football)

The hire of Mack Brown was questioned at the start. After an 8-4 2020 season and strong recruiting it looked like the Tar Heels made a savvy move. Then the 2021 season happened. With a pre-season top 15 ranking, the Tar Heels floundered around to a 6-7 year. Wake Forest and NC State flew past them in-state, and within the ACC Coastal, they are an afterthought. Brown might need a winning record in 2022 to stick around.

10. Jim Boeheim, Syracuse = 1.5 (Basketball) 

Is Jim Boeheim really on the hot seat? It’s all relative when the rest of the ACC is a mix of recently very successful or new coaches. There’s just no one else to add here. Last season was a huge disappointment going 16-17, it’s been several years since Syracuse had a really good team. A losing season won’t get Boeheim fired, but Cuse fans will probably be really ready to move on.

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