Grobe Has Created Wake In ACC

If you ask a lot of observers, they will tell you that Jim Grobe may be the best coach in the ACC. He has managed to bring the program to prominence with a small enrollment and school. Defeating FSU two years in a row doesn't hurt either.

After seven seasons at the helm, Grobe has built a football program that that has been to back-to-back bowl game. In 2007, Grobe led the Deacons to a 9-4 record including a 24-10 win over Connecticut in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Combined with last year's 11-3 record, Wake Forest has won 20 games in the last two seasons. Only 18 members of the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision have won 20 or more games since the start of the 2006 season. Among the nine wins in 2007 were victories over North Carolina, North Carolina State and Duke. Never before had Wake Forest swept the Tobacco Road series in consecutive seasons. And never before had Wake won as many as 20 games in just two seasons.

During his first seven seasons at Wake, Grobe has set numerous milestones that were never previously achieved by a Deacon football coach. Grobe has taken the Deacons to back-to-back bowl games for the first time in school history. He is the only coach to take Wake Forest to three bowl games in a career. And, with a 46-39 record in seven seasons with the Deacons, he is the first coach in over 50 years to have a career mark of seven games over .500.