(1952-02-17) February 17, 1952 (age 72) Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.
Playing career
1971–1972
Ferrum
1973–1974
Virginia
Position(s)
Guard, linebacker
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1975
Virginia (GA)
1976–1977
Liberty HS (Bedford, VA)
1978
Emory & Henry (LB)
1979–1983
Marshall (LB)
1984–1994
Air Force (LB)
1995–2000
Ohio
2001–2013
Wake Forest
2016
Baylor
2019
San Antonio Commanders (DC)
Head coaching record
Overall
117–121–1 (college)
Bowls
4–2
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 ACC (2006)
Awards
AP College Football Coach of the Year (2006) Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award (2006) Sporting News College Football COY (2006) MAC Coach of the Year (1996) ACC Coach of the Year (2006)
Jim Britt Grobe (born February 17, 1952) is an American football coach and former player who was most recently the defensive coordinator of the San Antonio Commanders of the Alliance of American Football. His previous position to that was as head football coach at Baylor University.[1] From 2001 to 2013, Grobe served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University. In 2006, he was named ACC Coach of the Year by a unanimous vote and AP Coach of the Year for coaching Wake Forest to an 11–2 regular season and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) title.
^"Jim Grobe Named Baylor's Acting Head Football Coach". Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
Jim Britt Grobe (born February 17, 1952) is an American football coach and former player who was most recently the defensive coordinator of the San Antonio...
coach for 14 seasons, compiling a record of 77–51–6. He is tied with JimGrobe as the winningest head football coach in Demon Deacon football history...
in a lawsuit against the university while allowing others to proceed. JimGrobe took over as interim head coach for Baylor and led them to their 7th straight...
0–11 and leading to the dismissal of Lichtenberg and his staff. In 1995, JimGrobe took over an Ohio program that was in great need of an overhaul. He brought...
Mackovic, Bill Dooley, Jim Caldwell, JimGrobe, and Clawson. Two of those coaches also won conference championships: Cal Stoll and Grobe each captured one...
Abbate asked head coach JimGrobe whether he could switch his jersey number from 40 to 5, the number his brother had worn. Grobe agreed, and Abbate wore...
school's sexual assault scandal. Briles's immediate successor was veteran JimGrobe, who took over in an interim capacity in 2016, leading Baylor to a 7–6...
the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by JimGrobe, in his fifth season at the school, and played its home games at Groves...
Division I FBS football season. The Bears were coached by interim head coach JimGrobe in their 118th football season. This was the team's third season in McLane...
Luke Abbate Jillian Batherson as Haley Scott Michael Harding as Coach JimGrobe Anessa Ramsey as Lynn Garber Patrick Stogner as Henry Bonnie Johnson as...
1999, in Southern Ohio. His father Keith was an assistant coach under JimGrobe on the Ohio Bobcats football team. Henry's family moved to Winston-Salem...
Wake Forest head coach to win the award. Others who won the award were JimGrobe (2006), Bill Dooley (1992 and 1987), John Mackovic (1979), Cal Stoll (1970)...
assistant at the Air Force Academy when he went to Ohio University with JimGrobe. He was the head coach of the Ohio Bobcats program from 2001 to 2004....
Sauer, Sam Boyd, John D. Bridgers, Grant Teaff, Chuck Reedy, Art Briles, JimGrobe, Matt Rhule, and Dave Aranda. Six coaches have won conference championships...
(2020–present) Megan Gebbia, current head coach of Wake Forest Women's basketball JimGrobe, Coach of Wake Forest football (2001–2013), won ACC Coach of the Year...
Wyoming's next head coach". Casper Star-Tribune. Retrieved December 7, 2013. "JimGrobe resigns". ESPN.com. December 2, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013. "Source:...
Division I-A football season. In their fourth season under head coach JimGrobe, the Demon Deacons compiled a 4–7 record and finished in a tie for last...
head coach after posting a 20–6 record in 2 seasons, after losing to the Jim Ned Indians in the state semi-finals on December 11, 2020. On February 24...
Former Ohio coach JimGrobe took the helm of the Bobcats program in 1995, inheriting a squad that winless in the previous season. Grobe quickly turned the...
wide-receiver, who successfully ran for a touchdown. Wake Forest coach JimGrobe described the play "as well executed as anything I’ve ever seen". In a...
coach JimGrobe was unanimously selected ACC Coach of the Year, and handily won the AP Coach of the Year award several weeks later. Coach Grobe signed...
Atlantic Coast Conference Specialist of the Week. Wake Forest head coach JimGrobe said, "This kid is probably a better receiver [than Darrius Heyward-Bey]...
ancestry and his father is of Irish and German ancestry.[citation needed] Both Jim and his brother John were born in Toledo, while his father was an assistant...
Conference (ACC). The Demon Deacons were led by eighth-year head coach JimGrobe. Wake Forest played its home games at BB&T Field. The Deacons began their...
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