http://sports.yahoo.com/news/jim-grobe-resigning-as-wake-forest-coach-204040655.html

What's the difference between stating he resigned rather than retired. Is there a difference? Does he not have enough years with the school to technically retire? It just sounds so much better to say you're retiring rather than resigning, but maybe there's something I'm missing.

77-82 makes Grobe one of the greatest coaches in WF history. Only 3 teams in FBS have a worse all time winning % than Wake. Boy did they hit the jackpot when they joined the ACC in 1953.

To understand Coach Grobe, it helps to understand his youth and the Ohio football program prior to his arrival.

Coach Grobe grew up in Huntington and his father who was a police officer who died while he was in high school.  Dr. Ray Hagley who was the Marshall team physician became a mentor for Grobe who referred to him as "Uncle Ray".  Dr. Hagley was then killed in the Marshall plane crash. 

Here at Ohio, we won 17 games the previous 10 years before Grobe was hired.  We did well to draw 5,000 a game and the facilities including the weight room were among the worst in Division 1.  By the time he left we had several winning seasons, along with beating Maryland and Minnesota and  near upsets of Kansas State and NC State on the road.  In addition, our graduation rate for the football team improved.

I am sure you will always find a player here or there who did not care for a coach and I am sure there are some who did not care for Grobe.  I met the Coach twice very briefly at the OU Inn following games and was shocked when I shook hands with him years later at the Ohio-UVA basketball game and he addressed me by my name before I could say anything.  A couple of days later he accepted the Wake job.

We lost several games we should have won while he was at Ohio and I watched us get pounded at Marshall while Moss and Pennington were there.  With that said, he laid a foundation (despite the Knorr years) that put us in a position to get Frank Solich. 

I found Coach Grobe very refreshing and that is why I followed Wake Forest football as much as I did.

http://espn.go.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/64162/jim-grobe-made-his-mark-at-wake-forest

He'll only be 62 in February, so unless he's going the early retirement route, he's got some years ahead, whether as a coach, consultant, or commentator, or he could take some other routes, like administration, or even politics.

Let's hope Fiami isn't calling him. 

Coach greeted students at Shively Hall during his first year. Most students didn't know or care about football. But I really respected him for doing that. I later spent a lot of time with him and he truly is a class act and great man. I read some of the message board posts from Wake today and they all echo the sentiments expressed here.

Maybe Miami will call Knorr?

Most of the Wake posters are hoping for Lembo of Ball State who was at Elon prior to BSU.  UVA fans have been talking about Lembo ever since they soundly beat UVA.

I doubt Knorr will be considered for the Wake job.

The real unfortunate casualty of many coaching changes is the children of the assistants who are normally growing up in Elementary School.  Dad loses his job and you lose your friends when you move.

Nice tribute to Grobe, mainly comprised of him addressing the team in the locker room.  Evidently when the new President (Hatch) came in in 2005 he tightened up the admissions for football. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbOca4f5uQ&feature=youtu.be