best player at Wake Forest for missing a class, would not yet cast sentence.

"Whenever you make a knee-jerk decision, I have found it the wrong decision," Grobe said.

Back in Virginia, Hank Norton, Grobe's role model, promised the coach would make the right decision.

"Everything Jim has done, he has done the right way," Norton said. "Character makes the man. I can assure you he is a man of great character."

Twitter: @bhorn55

Quick facts on Jim Grobe

Age: 64

Hometown: Huntington, W. Va.

Family: Wife Holly; sons Matt (golf coach at Marshall University); Ben (assistant director of football operations at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte); three grandchildren

Education: Ferrum (Va.) Junior College, associate of science, 1972; University of Virginia, bachelor's of science, 1975; University of Virginia, master's of education, 1978

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