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Incidentally, this is probably the right hire on both ends. Will certainly be rooting for Baylor next year.
You know you've hit rock bottom when you hire Jim Grobe
Incidentally, this is probably the right hire on both ends. Will certainly be rooting for Baylor next year.
Tarheel alumni must be clueless to the fact that UNC's situation is about much more than wins & losses. All of their comments pertain to the whole problem being isolated to women's basketball. They seem to have no concern at all about all the shit that was going on down there. To them, everything is just about winning games. Evidently, they doesn't give a damn about what went on off the field. They never mention anything about it, anyway. Typical Hole fan jerks.
Well, here's another take on the hire.
Grobe will have no problem filling a staff with low level assistants and FCS coaches looking for a shot at a big time program.
Starting in 2017, Baylor has a home and home series versus Duke. So, if Grobe stays past next season, he can seek to augment his dominance over the Devils.
In 2016, Baylor has a very soft start to the schedule:
NW State (H)
SMU (H)
Rice (A)
OK State (H)
Iowa State (A)
Kansas (A)
Even with the turmoil, Baylor will likely be favored in each game (except for possibly the home game against OK State) until the schedule turns brutal from October 29 on:
Texas (A)
TCU (H)
Oklahoma (A)
K State (H)
Texas Tech @ Jerry World
WV (A)
It's behind a paywall, but an article in the Dallas Morning News today indicated that Kendal Briles and Phil Bennett will be staying.
Well, here's another take on the hire.
He has made late night Baltimore/Washington sports radio unlistenable. No knowledge, grating voice. He must have something on the CBS executives.
How on earth does that guy draw a paycheck talking sports on the radio?
I'm a little surprised that the younger Briles is staying. Just for the optics of the situation, I would think it would be best if he moved on. If I'm Grobe and Baylor, I want to be rid of all reminders of what happened under Briles' watch. and that would include his kid.
I know it's late in the coaching change cycle, but this is not a normal circumstance.
Incidentally, this is probably the right hire on both ends. Will certainly be rooting for Baylor next year.
It will be easier to root for Grobe than Baylor, but that may be too fine a line to walk in the short term. I hope Grobie parlays this opportunity into a permanent job so he can rebuild a deserving P5 school into a visible an competitive program, but I'm not sure that Baylor fits my definition of deserving.
It will be interesting to see how he does there. Has anyone heard an explanation of the "acting" title vs interim that I would have thought would be Grobe's title? In my knowledge base, "acting" is usually given to an assistant who fills in for the head coach while he is temporarily unable to perform his duties. Situations like illness or injury, family emergency or ejection. Interim is the term I usually associate with a coach who has the job for a limited period of time (like a season), but usually longer than an acting. I know baseball teams sometimes use the interim tag on the person who finishes the season when a manager is fired with a month or two left in the season.