You believe in what he stands for. Unlike Dooley, who bucked the limitations inherent in coaching at the small private university competing in a conference dominated by much larger public schools, Grobe is convinced, as is Wellman, that Wake Forest has enough to offer to attract the caliber of athletes it will take to win. And I have the same philosophy. So we're on the same page. We want to win in football at Wake Forest, but we don't want to sacrifice the academics at Wake Forest University.
Good students can play great football.
The key for us is going to be finding the right kids for Wake Forest University. Reading between the lines of his biography, one can see that little has ever come easy for Jim Grobe. His father died when he was a junior in high school, and Grobe, preoccupied those days by football and baseball, needed to detour through Ferrum Junior College to meet the necessary requirements to be admitted to the University of Virginia. But once he reached Charlottesville, he made most of his opportunity. He started for two seasons at nose guard and linebacker, and earned a bachelor's in education and a master's in guidance and counseling.