satisfying for coaches

I am sure most coaches would wish to climb to the pinnacle of his profession, which means coaching at an upper-level BCS school where they expect to be in post-season every year. However, from a purely professional standpoint, in terms of satisfaction in having done a good job, I wonder if coaches at a little lower level don't feel more of a sense of accomplishment. They did more with less. They did it in spite of the resources they did not have.