David Glenn had a post a couple of weeks ago where he took a look at Herb Sendek’s ten-year career at State (this was before Herb stepped down). To show how Sendek compared to other ACC coaches, he listed the accomplishments of every coach who coached at least ten years in the ACC. It’s a fascinating list.
To make it a bit easier to review, I reformatted Glenn’s data into a HTML table here:

Coach	School	Years	ACC (Reg. Season)	Overall	ACC Tournament	NCAA Tournament	ACC Titles	ACC 1st Place	NCAA Bids	Sweet Sixteens	Final Fours	NCAA Titles
Vic Bubas	Duke	1960-69	106-32 (.768)	213-67 (.761)	22-6 (.786)	11-4 (.733)	4	4	4	4	3	0
Dean Smith	UNC	1962-71	97-43 (.693)	191-77 (.713)	14-7 (.667)	7-5 (.583)	3	4	3	3	3	0
Everett Case	NC State	1954-63	85-49 (.634)	183-77 (.704)	15-6 (.714)	2-2 (.500)	4	3	2	2	0	0
Norm Sloan	NC State	1967-76	78-52 (.600)	190-86 (.688)	12-7 (.632)	4-1 (.800)	3	2	2	1	1	1
Terry Holland	UVA	1975-84	73-57 (.562)	214-95 (.693)	10-9 (.526)	11-5 (.688)	1	3	5	3	2	0
Dave Odom	WF	1990-99	86-70 (.551)	199-97 (.672)	8-8 (.500)	10-7 (.588)	2	1	7	3	0	0
Mike Krzyzewski	Duke	1981-90	76-64 (.543)	231-101 (.696)	12-8 (.600)	21-7 (.750)	2	1	7	5	4	0
Lefty Driesell	MD	1970-79	67-57 (.540)	189-85 (.690)	9-10 (.474)	3-2 (.600)	0	1	2	1	0	0
Bud Millikan	MD	1954-63	71-64 (.526)	147-104 (.586)	6-9 (.400)	2-1 (.667)	1	0	1	1	0	0
Jim Valvano	NC State	1981-90	71-69 (.507)	209-114 (.647)	9-8 (.529)	14-6 (.700)	2	2	7	4	1	1
Bobby Cremins	GT	1982-91	70-70 (.500)	198-112 (.639)	9-8 (.529)	11-7 (.611)	2	1	7	3	1	0
Gary Williams	MD	1990-99	78-78 (.500)	192-118 (.619)	7-9 (.438)	8-6 (.571)	0	1	6	4	0	0
Herb Sendek	N.C. State	1997-2006	72-88 (.450)	191-132 (.591)	13-10 (.565)	5-5 (.500)	0	0	5	1	0	0
Carl Tacy	WF	1973-82	52-74 (.413)	164-114 (.590)	5-10 (.333)	3-3 (.500)	0	0	3	1	0	0
Cliff Ellis	Clem	1985-94	56-90 (.384)	177-128 (.580)	3-10 (.231)	3-3 (.500)	0	1	3	2	0	0
Bill Gibson	UVA	1964-73	46-90 (.338)	109-142 (.434)	4-10 (.286)	0-0 (.000)	0	0	0	0	0	0

A few observations:
– I had no idea that Vic Bubas was so good. I knew him as a good old ACC coach, but I never would have guessed that he had the best first ten years of any ACC coach ever. I think Bubas needs to come up more often in discussions of past great ACC coaches.
– I wouldn’t have guessed that Terry Holland and Dave Odom had a better first ten years (ranked by ACC regular season success) than Mike Krzyzewski. In fact, Coach K is ranked only 7 by that measure. Where you can see his numbers shine though is in his NCAA tournament success. Those number only got better in the next decade.
– It’s pretty clear that Herb Sendek was nothing special at State. He barely beats out Carl Tacy and I don’t think there are any statues of Tacy over in Winston-Salem.
– As I expected, Jim Valvano’s numbers are fairly pedestrian. In fact, he’s very comparable to Bobby Cremins. The only real difference are those last two wins of the 1983 team. If that team had lost in the FF like Cremins’ one FF team did (Lethal Weapon 3 losing to UNLV in 1990), they would be almost identical. But of course, they didn’t lose, and that certainly counts for something.