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The Jim Grobe contract extension thread

Haha..same copy as Dino's extension.
 
PhDeac said:
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.
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Or, he knows he is going to retire and wants to go out on a high note. My money is on this.
 
Any thoughts now that the season is over at 4-8?
 
2016 is a perfect time for it to run out.
 
Fire Lobo, have a new QB next season. Maybe things will spark again.

Grobe deserves another year, this year could have been different, had a few balls bounced the other way.
 
Go said:
Fire Lobo, have a new QB next season. Maybe things will spark again.

Grobe deserves another year, this year could have been different, had a few balls bounced the other way.
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Bullshit. First, Grobe will never fire Lobo, and if Grobe isn't willing to do his own dirty work then Wellman shouldn't do it for him. Second, for 4 years Tanner was the best QB we had. That's on Grobe. (and, btw, if we had a decent line, more than one receiver, and a competent OC, Tanner would have been plenty serviceable).
 
Go said:
Fire Lobo, have a new QB next season. Maybe things will spark again.

Grobe deserves another year, this year could have been different, had a few balls bounced the other way.
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Haha.
 
Go said:
Vandy, Duke, UL Monroe games, that's a 3 win swing right there.
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ULM loss falls squarely on Grobe's shoulders. Like it or not, the stupid option offense was motivated by him. We win that game without that offense. We probably win BC too. Those two games alone are reasons to fire Grobe. A good catch does try to force a round peg into a square hole..well at least not 12 years in. Didn't watch all of Vandy and didn't watch any of Duke, but in the former I saw the same old bullshit of him making decisions to minimize the margin instead of win the game.

That said, I don't want Wellman making the next hire, but I also see very little reason to have faith in Grobe at this point.
 
Go said:
Vandy, Duke, UL Monroe games, that's a 3 win swing right there.
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2006:
Duke, Syracuse, NC State, UNC, BC, GT. That's a six-game swing right there.

See, I can do it too.
 
And this really should go without saying, but just in case, you essentially walk into the sports equivalent of the gambler's fallacy to just blindly assert that we could've / should've won ALL of our close games. That's just not how sports work. Teams regress to the mean in close games across all sports the more close games they play. It's just unusual for a team to win all (or even 2/3rds, for example) of their close games just as it is for them to lose them all. As such, you can't just throw out all of a team's close losses without making some sort of analogous 'adjustment' or 'make-good' as to its close wins, too.
 
TBR said:
Bullshit. First, Grobe will never fire Lobo, and if Grobe isn't willing to do his own dirty work then Wellman shouldn't do it for him. Second, for 4 years Tanner was the best QB we had. That's on Grobe. (and, btw, if we had a decent line, more than one receiver, and a competent OC, Tanner would have been plenty serviceable).
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Is it Grobe's son and Lobo's daughter that are married? No way he ever fires him.
 
KidA23 said:
And this really should go without saying, but just in case, you essentially walk into the sports equivalent of the gambler's fallacy to just blindly assert that we could've / should've won ALL of our close games. That's just not how sports work. Teams regress to the mean in close games across all sports the more close games they play. It's just unusual for a team to win all (or even 2/3rds, for example) of their close games just as it is for them to lose them all. As such, you can't just throw out all of a team's close losses without making some sort of analogous 'adjustment' or 'make-good' as to its close wins, too.
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This a great point. The perfect outliers to this are our 2006 team and Duke's team this season.
 
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