That was Jim Caldwell’s big deal when he came here. He wanted 300+ lb OL & wanted all of them to bench over 300 just like FSU did. Trouble was they were all fat blob 300 lb’s. Out of shape & puking on the field during games.
True, that, but Jim Caldwell did get them in the door for Grobe.
If Caldwell’s 300 pounders could not bench over 300 pounds, than that would be pathetic. I get what you’re saying but benching 300 isn’t hard for O/D linemen.
That is certainly true today but back in the early 90’s when Caldwell arrived, we did not have that many in the weight lifting board going over 300 on the bench. He put emphasis on that and pointed to what FloridaState with Bowden was doing. As I stated, they got bigger, but sloppier and had no speed. It took a couple years too long (just like BzMan & Manning since Well-Man hired him) but he finally got fired with a 26-63/12-52 ACC record and Grobe shaped them up almost immediately. (6-5/3-5) the next season after Caldwell’s 2-9/1-7
The beginning of this post, not surprisingly, is pure horseshit.
And went right down the field for a TD on Notre Dame using a few trick plays this year.
12-52 ACC record tells me we didn’t have many who could lift nor run fast from 1993-2000. Grobe changed that thank goodness when he got here.
Hard to compare the NFL and college. Caldwell is a good football coach. That works in the NFL when you have all good football players and you’re not in charge of finding and signing them. If you can’t recruit and develop then it doesn’t matter how good of a coach you are.
The thing is that it wasn’t really recruiting because Grobe took his guys and won. And he did make the OL specifically lose a ton of weight.
True, but Groh had a nice 10 years or so with UVa. I think it's easier at a state school than at Wake to build a program, but UVa had about as terrible of a history as we did. I'll never forget our 66-21 W in Charlottesville. 21-0 in first 5 minutes.
George Welsh put that program on the map.
