Miami's program doesn't deserve best antidote: Grobe

Wake Forest has the ACC's worst facilities, budget and academic requirements this side of hopeless Duke. If an ACC football season were a swim meet, Grobe would have anvils tied to his ankles. Yet his 2006 Deacons finished ahead of Clemson, Florida State and Miami, programs with outboard motors fixed to their backs.

I will say this, and say it with a straight face: Hall of Fame basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski didn't win big until he got to Duke. Coach K was 73-59 at Army, and his final team there was 9-17, but Duke had vision. Duke looked beyond the record, looked at the limitations he faced at Army and imagined what Coach K could become at a basketball school like Duke. The rest is history.

Yes, I'm comparing Jim Grobe to Mike Krzyzewski. Give Grobe the facilities, budget, tradition and location available only at Miami -- the same sort of stuff that was available to Coach K at Duke -- and something special will happen.

Best of all, Grobe wouldn't have to cut corners off the field to make magic on it. He wouldn't fool around with the kind of cretins Miami has pursued over the years. Larry Coker is said to be, and seems to be, a prince of a guy. But he once signed stud linebacker Willie Williams knowing full well that Williams had an 11-arrest rap sheet.

Grobe won't sign that kind of kid. He doesn't need great athletes/marginal people to win, because his staples are a funky offense, hardcore defense and discipline, discipline, discipline. But give him the kind of athletes available to Miami and ... wow.

Grobe is perfect for Miami. Not good. Not decent. He's perfect.

But Miami doesn't have to listen to me. Miami can listen to the Sun-Sentinel, which suggested, and I'm not making this up, Mike Mularkey.