That Pressure Job COACHING

Jim Grobe on Monday resigned as the football coach at Wake Forest. WF as one of the smallest division one football programs has over the years accepted that winning more than half of their games was probably not possible. Along comes Jim Grobe and the Deacs win the ACC football championship and play in the Orange Bowl game. Every school in the country came calling on Grobe to be their coach. Grobe said I like it here and here is where I will stay. Grobe made the Demon Deacons into a competitive football team but the last couple of years the Deacs haven fallen into that 4-7 type season and Deacon fans no longer want that to be the common. How easy it is to forget that this man changed Wake Football. I don't care who you are if you have expectations in your life the disappointment of not reaching your personal goals weight heavy on any person. Then when you throw in a fan base that wants more wins the burden can be too heavy for any man to want to endure so yesterday Grobe resigned stating at this point he had no plans for the future. To me that sounds like those burdens needed to be lift off his shoulders and so Wake has loss the greatest coach ever. Having run a clock during sporting events many times over the years I can tell you right now that the end of the Alabama -Auburn game when there was one second left or not any clock in the country when you as the time keeper hit the stop button one more second will always come off before it stops on the score board. Sitting home having watch all the second half of that game I thought they would rule game over and let's play overtime. I am sure at this time Alabama wished they had. I never in my wildest dreams thought about a run back but I was telling my TV screen that Auburn had to watch the fake kick and pass. The TV angle even while the ball was in flight I never thought about a run back until the deep man ran up into the screen. Every person in that stadium was watching the flight of the ball including the Alabama players so who can blame any player on the field for not being down in coverage. In fact the kick returner did dodge his first man at the 15 yard line and there is that saying in football that if you get by the first man you have a chance. If you saw the Turkey night NFL game anyone who has seen the replay Mike Tomlin the coach of the Steelers was right where he wanted to be on the return by the Ravens kicker returner. I think the best deal if you want to keep coaches off the field as in this case is suspend him for about two games and any coach thinking about that type idea again will remember he got about a half million dollar fine from the league.