As someone else noted, he also took George Mason to the Final Four prior to coaching at Miami. He's been successful at multiple places and has won program firsts at both. Has his teams had up and down years in the ACC since winning the tournament in his 2nd year? Absolutely Has he benefited from NIL unlike other ACC coaches who do not wealthy donor(s) in place to do so? Of course, yes. Well documented, especially Nigel Pack's 2 year $800K. The OP was mentioning top coaches in the league and mentioned CTB and CMY. My point was you have to include CJL in there too, certainly before CMY, given his accomplishments. There have been so many recent retirements that the current list is pretty short. Would I put CJL in the same category as CTB who has had sustained success year over year and a championship? No, of course not, and certainly wasn't implying that either, especially given the bar is so currently low