Al Groh
Al Groh
Al Grohis an American football analyst and former player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Wake Forest University from 1981 to 1986 and at the University of Virginia from 2001 to 2009, compiling a career college football coaching record of 85–92. Groh was also the head coach for the New York Jets of the National Football Leaguefor one season, in 2000, tallying a mark of 9–7. He last coached as the defensive coordinator for Georgia Tech...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 July 1944
highly package quite skilled top
He's a no-maintenance, no-baggage player, on top of being a highly skilled player. That's quite a package for teams.
nice
It would be nice to do; that's for sure,
available catch changes coaching equation might physically quickly ready
Now that we have (Brown and Cook) here, and we're actually coaching them, we have a much better sense of how quickly they catch on to things and how physically ready they might be, ... That changes the equation and some of the things that are available to us.
blocking brad finish full plays view
On a play two plays earlier, Brad was blocking Mathias and cut-blocked him to finish the play -- in full view of the umpire,
built last power team
Last year, ... we had a team built around power and that was the way we played. This year, we have a different kind of team.
last margins proven team veteran won
Last year, we had a veteran team with a lot of proven players, and we won by some substantial margins early,
wants
(Monroe) wants to be coached. He wants to be very good.
chance continues good move practiced
He practiced well yesterday, ... If he progresses the way that he has and continues to move on, then there's a real good chance of it.
matter mentality prove ready teams unpleasant
Our mentality is that no matter who we're playing, you'd better ready to prove yourself every week. Teams that don't have that mentality usually end up with an unpleasant result.
leave refuse
I know you want to leave me, but I refuse to let you go.
certainly earned earning
He's earning our confidence, and he certainly earned more of it today.
ahead based fall horse open performance race somebody start
Obviously, somebody will be ahead to start with, based on fall performance and so forth, but it probably will be an open horse race here in the spring.
coach easy figure minimize smart
Fortunately, there is an easy way and the coach doesn't have to be very smart to figure that out and minimize that problem.
case fair issues training whatever whether
I think that's fair to say. That has been the case from the outset, whether it's eligibility issues or training issues or whatever the case may be.