In all seriousness, this should be Jim Grobe's next job if indeed he is not done coaching. Say what you want about Wake Forest being in the ACC, but the Army job is more prestigous. And he loves running the triple-option, so he wouldn't have to recruit "his guys" right away. This should be a no-brainer for both parties.

I could see Grobe at Army.  But, as a Navy guy I don't want it to happen.  They might figure out a way to win every now and then.  I like the ring of 12 straight and counting!

http://acc.blogs.starnewsonline.com/39544/former-wake-coa.../

I'm ambivalent when watching the Army-Navy game.  I went Army but my dad went Marines and my older brothers Navy.  That said, I wouldn't recommend to any coach that he take the Army job.  Reason: Given Army's ineptitude for the last dozen years, it seems pretty clear that Army hasn't been able to recruite as well as Navy and Air Force. 

Why?  I'm not sure but I tend to think it has something to do with the way Army service might be perceived vis a vis  Navy and Air Force service.

Army might make a young man "Army strong," but it also has a greater possibility of putting a newly commissioned junior officer in harm's way than Navy or Air Force service.  Indeed, when I was a senior at Ohio and was pondering military service, both Dad (WWI) and my brothers Dean and Gene were urging me to go Navy for that very reason.  As late brother Dean observed, go Navy and "you get three hots and a cot."  (He and Gene spoke from experience; during WWII Dean was a Navy aviator who flew anti-submarine patrols, and Gene was on an LCP at Borneo,  Guinea and Okinawa.) 

For me, in the Army in Korea in the field it was more apt to be shivering in a sleeping bag in a pup tent erected in snow or mud. 

I tend to think that such reality causes young men willing to commit to military service after graduating from an academy to prefer Navy or Air Force over Army.

If given the opportunity to coach Army, for Grobe's sake,  I hope he passes.

North Korea?

Bobcatattack breaks the news:  US to send army of liberation to North Korea! 

Reminds me of  this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos

The issue of Army's football recruiting has come up several times around here,both in newspaper articles and in interviews on Sports Talk Radio.

Apparently one of Army's biggest problems is that their summer military training  is,overall, more physically demanding then Navy's or Air Force's.
That means that Army has trouble recruiting certain types of players.It also means that their  players start  fall camp in shape,but not "bulked up"
They say its really hard to try to get players,especially linemen ,to "bulk up" during the season.

Someone may have the stats [looks in LC's direction] to prove me wrong, but it really seems like turnovers were the bproblem (well, a very big problem) during the Knorr era. The fact that Navy is so good at hanging onto the ball shows that it isn't a function of option football.

Thanks. Another young stud I know used Army logistical experience to get in with Amazon. He was also a CH47 "Chinook" pilot. Just had a thought. I will have to ask him if Amazon is working on a CH47 "drone" for the big orders. "Go big or go home!" Might be another retrofit for Boeing.

Here are the numbers for Knorrmageddon: 
2001 (11 games) -- 18 TOs (14 fumbles, 4 INTs)
2002 (12 games) -- 25 TOs (16 fumbles, 9 INTs)
2003 (12 games) -- 26 TOs (19 fumbles, 7 INTs)
2004 (11 games) -- 22 TOs (11 each). 
The margins for those years were -5, 0, -1 and +1, respectively. 

By comparison, here are the numbers for the past four seasons:
2010 (13 games) -- 32 TOs (12 fumbles, 20 INTs)
2011 (14 games) -- 27 TOs (16 fumbles, 11 INTs)
2012 (13 games) -- 10 TOs (5 each)
2013 (12 games) -- 21 TOs (11 fumbles, 10 INTs). 
The margins for those years were -7, 0, +15 and +1, respectively.

Very good point. Also, I wonder if I am remembering fumbles, including recovered fumbles, as opposed to lost turnovers. It was a joke among my buddies how many consecutive plays we could run without fumbling, that "fumble" was statistically our 3rd favorite play, etc.

This makes me think Grobe will be sitting out this year then. Perhaps he's waiting to return to Ohio once Frank retires!