Wake Forest really likes meat and potato type of coaches, don't they? Grobe and now Clawson.

Probably smart given their place in the college football world. Just do things right, hire a guy who won't get you in trouble with the NCAA and hopefully win some games here or there before basketball season starts and everybody stops paying attention.

Wake Forest is the type of job where if a coach had any success (like Jim Grobe did when he went to the Orange Bowl), a decision would have to be made:  if the coach is very ambitious to be upwardly mobile, he would have to get out of Dodge right away because you can't sustain success at Wake Forest. 

OTOH...if a coach was further along in life, maybe not as ambitious for vertical mobility...Winston Salem would be a great place to be for about 10 years or so.  After that, the coach could retire or if forced out could take a mid major head coaching job somewhere...

Wake Forest is a fine school in a great place to live. 

The same thing happens all the time in the MAC. You win there, you move on, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. IMO, one if the reasons Frank has been rather consistent while other teams ebb and flow with their coaching carousel.

I know Gill didn't do well at Kansas, but Kill is doing fine at Minnesota (except from a health standpoint). If I have time, I'll do more research.

One thing about Clawson disappointed me. As seems to be becoming more common, he abandoned his team before their bowl so that he could get an earlier start on recruiting. I'd like to point out, by way of contrast, that not all coaches do that. Craig Bohl, and NDSU, announced that he would continue to coach NDSU until their playoff run is completed, and would not start at Wyoming until his current job was completed.