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Grobe interviews for UAB Job

Unless Lobo has Grobe's coattails to hang on, @ best he may have to find a coaching gig in the high school ranks...
 
SDeacz said:
Waiting so long.....

Maybe we should have fired him in 2005 after 4 straight losing seasons... Then maybe we don't win ACC championship. I think Grobe stepped down at the right time. and I think he is a fine fine coach. He's not a "hot name" but UAB would be lucky to have him.
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That would have been stupid to do since we only had 3 straight losing seasons prior to 2006 and in those seasons we were competitive in losses. It was obvious we were building towards something in those seasons. It was not obvious we were building towards something from 2010-2013.
 
UAB is possibly the worst job in D1. IMO it's impossible to win there. It's a commuter school. 80% of the students care more about Alabama or Auburn than UAB. Legion Field is falling apart and it's off campus in a bad part of town. Their facilities are miserable...in the early 2000s the YMCA I worked out at was nicer than their athletic weight room and their football practice field also doubled as an intramural field in the offseason.

It's got to be the most dead end job in college football. McGee got out while he could. They will probably end up with someone like Grobe on the downside of his career. But from Grobe's perspective it makes sense. He'll get 4-5 years, make a couple of million, and get to coach for the fun of it with no pressure to win or on his future career. If he happens to take them to the GoDaddy.com bowl they would probably create a 20 foot bronze statue and give him a lifetime contract. And Birmingham isn't a bad place to live.

I hope he gets the job.
 
wakedeac98 said:
UAB is possibly the worst job in D1. IMO it's impossible to win there. It's a commuter school. 80% of the students care more about Alabama or Auburn than UAB. Legion Field is falling apart and it's off campus in a bad part of town. Their facilities are miserable...in the early 2000s the YMCA I worked out at was nicer than their athletic weight room and their football practice field also doubled as an intramural field in the offseason.

It's got to be the most dead end job in college football. McGee got out while he could. They will probably end up with someone like Grobe on the downside of his career. But from Grobe's perspective it makes sense. He'll get 4-5 years, make a couple of million, and get to coach for the fun of it with no pressure to win or on his future career. If he happens to take them to the GoDaddy.com bowl they would probably create a 20 foot bronze statue and give him a lifetime contract. And Birmingham isn't a bad place to live.

I hope he gets the job.
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Good post. The job does make some sense for someone in Grobe's situation. And Birmingham is a pretty good place to live.
 
Without Grobe, Lobo is officialy retired from coaching- elementary, middle, high school, college or otherwise.
 
Buttermaker said:
They already removed the upper deck. Name another football field that structurally reduced its capacity.
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Not to argue, but Stanford Stadium's rebuild in 2005 removed almost 30,000 seats. Then again, that stadium was a shithole prior to demolition too.
 
wakedeac98 said:
UAB is possibly the worst job in D1. IMO it's impossible to win there. It's a commuter school. 80% of the students care more about Alabama or Auburn than UAB. Legion Field is falling apart and it's off campus in a bad part of town. Their facilities are miserable...in the early 2000s the YMCA I worked out at was nicer than their athletic weight room and their football practice field also doubled as an intramural field in the offseason.

It's got to be the most dead end job in college football. McGee got out while he could. They will probably end up with someone like Grobe on the downside of his career. But from Grobe's perspective it makes sense. He'll get 4-5 years, make a couple of million, and get to coach for the fun of it with no pressure to win or on his future career. If he happens to take them to the GoDaddy.com bowl they would probably create a 20 foot bronze statue and give him a lifetime contract. And Birmingham isn't a bad place to live.

I hope he gets the job.
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Not a bad scenario, and some parallels to Odom's situation. As best I can tell neither Odom or Grobe were fired, but for both the bloom was off the rose and they had not been able to sustain earlier successes. Both Odom/Grobe probably had things they wanted from Wellman that he was not willing or in a position to grant (facilities, academic flexibility), and conditions Wellman was requiring that they were not willing to compromise on (more say on their assistants, contract extensions contingent on bowls and tournament results). So both guys leave for public institutions which while they don't have the restrictions of a private school, they don't have the resources, fan support or tradition of Wake (Wake vs. SC in basketball is a definite, but you could make the same argument about WF vs. UAB football). Like Odom, Grobe leaves for the public university, has some success (3 straight NIT bids! a go-daddy.com bowl bid!) but eventually "retires" after some early-year momentum stalls. Then, Grobe like Odom recognizes that most of his successes, friendships, and valued connections are at Wake and in the Winston community, and he retires back to the area and takes on a statesman-like role with the occasional open-the-gate, alumni functions, t.v. appearance, etc. Sure, we continue to debate his legacy on a silly message board for years (was it his coaching or Tim Duncan? his coaching or luck with the fresh Deacs?), but overall he's regarded as a positive figure in Wake sports history.
Of course Grobe's wired differently than Odom and he may have already completely moved on from his association with Wake, but an Odom-like reconnection a some point won't surprise me.
 
The big difference is that Odom left for the SC job. Grobe may not get one.
 
DoubleDeacNC said:
Not to argue, but Stanford Stadium's rebuild in 2005 removed almost 30,000 seats. Then again, that stadium was a shithole prior to demolition too.
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No problem. I asked someone name another stadium, and you did. :thumbsup: Interesting about Stanford given its recent success. The old stadium must have been huge.
 
Stanford hosted a Super Bowl if I remember correctly.
 
DownEastDeac said:
Not a bad scenario, and some parallels to Odom's situation. As best I can tell neither Odom or Grobe were fired, but for both the bloom was off the rose and they had not been able to sustain earlier successes. Both Odom/Grobe probably had things they wanted from Wellman that he was not willing or in a position to grant (facilities, academic flexibility), and conditions Wellman was requiring that they were not willing to compromise on (more say on their assistants, contract extensions contingent on bowls and tournament results). So both guys leave for public institutions which while they don't have the restrictions of a private school, they don't have the resources, fan support or tradition of Wake (Wake vs. SC in basketball is a definite, but you could make the same argument about WF vs. UAB football). Like Odom, Grobe leaves for the public university, has some success (3 straight NIT bids! a go-daddy.com bowl bid!) but eventually "retires" after some early-year momentum stalls. Then, Grobe like Odom recognizes that most of his successes, friendships, and valued connections are at Wake and in the Winston community, and he retires back to the area and takes on a statesman-like role with the occasional open-the-gate, alumni functions, t.v. appearance, etc. Sure, we continue to debate his legacy on a silly message board for years (was it his coaching or Tim Duncan? his coaching or luck with the fresh Deacs?), but overall he's regarded as a positive figure in Wake sports history.
Of course Grobe's wired differently than Odom and he may have already completely moved on from his association with Wake, but an Odom-like reconnection a some point won't surprise me.
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Well said
 
Buttermaker said:
The UA med center is on the UAB campus.
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Not really sure what you mean by this. There is a UAB School of Medicine and a UAB medical center/hospital/health system. I went to undergrad in B'ham (not at UAB, but I did ROTC there) and have never heard any of the medical facilities in B'ham referred to as the UA med center.
 
Buttermaker said:
No problem. I asked someone name another stadium, and you did. :thumbsup: Interesting about Stanford given its recent success. The old stadium must have been huge.
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Yeah the old Stanford stadium was an 80,000+ seat facility I think.
 
noogadeac said:
Not really sure what you mean by this. There is a UAB School of Medicine and a UAB medical center/hospital/health system. I went to undergrad in B'ham (not at UAB, but I did ROTC there) and have never heard any of the medical facilities in B'ham referred to as the UA med center.
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The medical school in Birmingham is the University of Alabama School of Medicine. The hospital has UAB in it's name but the school doesn't. The undergraduate buildings are directly adjacent to all of the hospital area with the medical school building directly between the two.
 
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