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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

If Wake Forest Doesn't Lose All Of Their Remaining 4 Games Then .....

Without a doubt does this guy in the picture above deserve ACC coach of the year! As of right now his all-time win/loss record at Wake is 33-33. Their final four games on their regular season schedule are as follows: Boston College, @ Florida State, Virginia Tech, and @ Maryland. I think they'll win at least one of those four but the real question is this: if Wake Forest loses all 4 of those and end the regular season with a 7-5 record, does Jim Grobe deserve ACC coach of the year?

I can tell you several coaches who do not deserve ACC Coach of the year already: John Bunting, Larry Coker, Chuck Amato, Ralph Friedgen, Bobby Bowden, Al Groh, Ted Roof. So that leaves 5 other possible names, GT -Chan Gailey (6-2), Clemson - Tommy Bowden (7-2), Wake Forest - Jim Grobe (7-1), VT - Frank Beemer (6-2), BC - Tom O' Brien (7-1). Alot really depends on this weekend. If Wake Forest defeats Boston College then I think Tom O'Brien can kiss "acc coach of the year" award goodbye. If Frank Beemer at VT loses another ACC game this weekend against Miami, he can def. forget about it as well. I think it's going to come down to Chan Gailey, Tommy Bowden, and Jim Grobe. I think just as long as Grobe wins at least 1 more game, he deserves coach of the year, even if Gailey and Bowden win out. If in fact he loses these remaining four games, then the award should indeed go to either Gailey, Bowden, or O'Brien depending on how they do.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is Friedgen already out his team is 5-2 with losses only coming to national championship contender West Va. and a solid GT team? If he beats Clemson on Sat., which might be likely I think you have to put him back in to the mix.

7:48 PM

 
Blogger matt said...

Even though I am sometimes not in Grobe's corner thanks to his ultra conservative play calling, the changes he has made are monumental. My freshman year we lost 5 games by 20 or more points. In Grobe's nearly six years at the helm we have lost 6 games by 20 or more points.

7:09 AM

 
Blogger ____________ said...

Tim ..... you are 100% correct and 0% wrong! ha

I guess with me being such a big clemson fan and already assuming that we will beat Maryland this weekend, I didn't even think about that scenario. You are right though, if Maryland can knock off clemson this weekend and win a few more then Friedgen def. should get a hard look at acc coach of the year.

By the way, I'm actually a Friedgen fan. I would love to see him take a higher job somewhere else outside of the ACC

9:46 AM

 
Blogger JCTiger said...

Maybe I am a biased Clemson fan but.... Jim Grobe definitely deserves coach of the year. He has made Wake Forest into a feared program. I'll be happy to see him go on to bigger and better things, as long as Clemson doesn't have to play him.

11:51 AM

 

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