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My choice is Clark or Jenkins but Jim Grobe took a putrid Wake Forest program and led them to the orange bowl but he also is coming off 3 straight losing seasons. I'll be glad when this is over.

good that we have a new thread.

Hey guys have y'all heard anything about Jim Grobe?

(01-16-2014 09:34 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  good that we have a new thread.

That's what I was thinking.

5 straight, but who is counting?

http://www.coachingsearch.com/article?a=...re-support

He was on bammer's list as an option a few year's back.

Quote:Everyone realized we could win, but then we got to the point where everybody expected us to win. That’s not a good place to be at Wake Forest, especially if you’re not doing things to keep up with other programs.

If he thought that was a problem at Wake, he will be in for a surprise at UAB. Keep going Mr. Grobe.

He also went around .500% for 5 years at Ohio U, BUT they had only won 9 games in 5 years before he got there...........0-11 the year before he started. They started losing big again after he left.

Coach Grobe is currently chairman of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Ethics committee.

I think Grobe might be the right guy for the UAB job. I think he has the X's and O's to help UAB start winning right away, then he can probably help get the ball rolling on facilities improvements after the wins start coming.

If Coach Grobe had continued to win, he would not be looking to UAB for a new job now, would he? Wake is like Vandy as a place where they have a good team with a good coach for a short time. The good assistants get hired away and their replacements may not be as good. We have seen that play out ourselves. That is why Wake's most famous athlete to pursue his sport while on a football scholarship there never played a down of football.

(01-16-2014 10:31 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  .500%

AS a math teacher, I now feel like GrammarNazi.

(01-17-2014 03:03 PM)blazerjay Wrote:  Coach Grobe is currently chairman of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Ethics committee.

He clearly has no place coaching football in Alabama.

I could win at least .500% of my games as head coach.

Jim Grobe will be our George O'Leary

He lied on his resume?

(01-16-2014 10:31 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  He also went around .500% for 5 years at Ohio U, BUT they had only won 9 games in 5 years before he got there...........0-11 the year before he started. They started losing big again after he left.

Ohio has been to five straight bowl games.

(01-17-2014 03:25 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  

(01-16-2014 10:31 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  He also went around .500% for 5 years at Ohio U, BUT they had only won 9 games in 5 years before he got there...........0-11 the year before he started. They started losing big again after he left.

Ohio has been to five straight bowl games.

Under Frank Solich, formerly of Nebraska.

(01-17-2014 03:25 PM)bladhmadh Wrote:  

(01-16-2014 10:31 PM)Bham Blazer Wrote:  He also went around .500% for 5 years at Ohio U, BUT they had only won 9 games in 5 years before he got there...........0-11 the year before he started. They started losing big again after he left.

Ohio has been to five straight bowl games.

They started winning again when they hired Frank Solich. Look at the first 5 years after Grobe left.