No to Coach K?
Dean Smith is looking good as far as a spot on Mount ACCMore is concerned.
(Neither is he looking bad for having engineered Ol' Roy's return to Chapel Hill. Another story for another day, that one.)
We've discussed Bobby Bowden - and more discussion on that one will no doubt be forthcoming.
Now we get to another coach who will be assumed by many to be a lock for our mountain of Atlantic Coast Conference sports heroes - Mike Krzyzewski.
As with Bowden, I'm not sold on Coach K as of right now.
OK, so the guy has won a bazillion ACC tournament and regular-season championships (to be accurate, it's nine and 10, respectively) - plus he's been to 10 Final Fours, won three national titles, been named national coach of the year 12 times.
To me, though, it's all about timing.
If Krzyzewski had been around before Dean Smith, and Smith had used what Krzyzewski had done at Duke as a benchmark for where he wanted to take his North Carolina program, then it would be Coach K, hands down.
But the fact that Smith was the advance man here - not just for Krzyzewski, but for Lefty Driesell, Bobby Cremins, Terry Holland and everybody else who followed - means he's got to be a step ahead of everybody else in basketball in the pecking order.
That said, we've only got room for four heads on our Mount ACCMore - and that could mean that we get one basketball coach, and that's it.
Nothing has been carved in stone yet, but if that ends up being the case, we'd have to go with Dean-o.
I know that could be tough to swallow - but then, they didn't have room on Mount Rushmore for Thomas Jefferson and James Madison both, so they went with the one who wrote the Declaration of Independence over the one who was the Father of the Constitution.
Nobody said anything was supposed to be easy.
- Chris Graham