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The 10 year contract Jim Grobe signed after the 2006 ACC Championship runs until the 2016 season.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2782191
All of a sudden, our coaching staff is being aggressive about playing true freshmen.
This year’s true freshmen will be seniors or redshirt juniors on that team. The 2014 recruiting class would all be slated to finish their careers after Grobe's contract is up. He's only under contract to coach 2015 recruits for 2 seasons.
Grobe is 61 and would be 64 at the end of his contract. It's certainly not unheard of for someone to coach into his late 60s. Obviously you have JoePa and Bowden. Bill Synder came back to coaching at 69. Beamer is older than him and recent ACC coaches Spaz, O'Brien, and Butch Davis are as well.
I think he’s looking for an extension, possibly within the next year. If he plans to coach into his late 60s, he's not just going to stop coaching at Wake at the end of his contract and look elsewhere. Without an extension, he's a lame duck coach going forward unless he has a coach-in-waiting lined up.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2782191
All of a sudden, our coaching staff is being aggressive about playing true freshmen.
This year’s true freshmen will be seniors or redshirt juniors on that team. The 2014 recruiting class would all be slated to finish their careers after Grobe's contract is up. He's only under contract to coach 2015 recruits for 2 seasons.
Grobe is 61 and would be 64 at the end of his contract. It's certainly not unheard of for someone to coach into his late 60s. Obviously you have JoePa and Bowden. Bill Synder came back to coaching at 69. Beamer is older than him and recent ACC coaches Spaz, O'Brien, and Butch Davis are as well.
I think he’s looking for an extension, possibly within the next year. If he plans to coach into his late 60s, he's not just going to stop coaching at Wake at the end of his contract and look elsewhere. Without an extension, he's a lame duck coach going forward unless he has a coach-in-waiting lined up.