Keep telling yourself that, kiddo.

Heather Dinich has an eye-roller of a post.

… You can’t put a price tag on integrity, though, and the ACC’s got it.

The ACC has earned a reputation for hiring coaches with consciences, and both Steele and Cutcliffe have reminded us it’s a trait that still exists is the big business of college football. Steele went to Tennessee. He’s a proud 1981 graduate. He played there. Cutcliffe’s daughter goes to school there. He spent the first 16 years of his career there. Yet both of them are focused on finishing what they started in the ACC.

Loyalty runs deep in the conference. Look at Frank Beamer and his staff. Jim Grobe and his staff. How Frank Spaziani stuck by BC, even when he didn’t get the head-coaching job the first time around. How Maryland stuck with Ralph Friedgen, and he in turn kept his staff in tact, despite a 2-10 season.

Me laugh.  Maryland “stuck with” Friedgen because it can’t afford the buyout.  Spaziani got the BC job because his predecessor had the temerity to interview with an NFL team.  Bud Foster indicated to Mark Richt that he had some interest in the open DC job and Virginia Tech had to open up the wallet to dissuade him from further pursuit.  And don’t kid yourself into thinking that Kevin Steele – who just jumped from Alabama, what, a year ago? – isn’t getting a sweetener from Clemson.   By the way, whatever happened to that Dave Wommack fellow?  It seems like he was just hired the other day.

Jim Grobe is a rare bird, and I do give him credit for that.  But you know what?  He’s been at Wake Forest for the same amount of time that Mark Richt has been at Georgia.

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UPDATE: By Dinich’s lights, shouldn’t LSU and Chavis get as much credit for loyalty as she’s giving Clemmins and Steele?  (Don’t forget that Miles turned down overtures from his alma mater, too.)