Look, until the year Jim Grobe takes one of those sweet jobs at, say, Arkansas or what have you with their reasonable fanbases and expectations, every offseason is going to find in the pool of candidates for open positions. Grobe is well-compensated at Wake Forest, is considered a god amongst its success-starved students and plays in a conference that's weak enough to make a BCS appearance a feasible goal any given year. But still...Arkansas!As Virginia Tech (and as an opposite case, Virginia) has shown, one of the keys to success is being able to keep a coaching staff intact, which Grobe has accomplished quite nicely since being tabbed in 2001. He's only had one of his assistants jump ship since that time, until this past offseason when DC Dean Hood was named head coach of Eastern Kentucky and now this past week when QB coach Jeff Mullen was nabbed by West Virginia to serve as the OC under Bill Stewart. Can't say I blame him, and from the looks of things, neither does Grobe. While Wake Forest has certainly been able to make inroads in the Florida recruiting game, Wake wasn't going after Sunshine State cats like Noel Devine. And considering Wake was based out of a similar spread-option offense for the most part, even without Steve Slaton and Rich Rodriguez, I can't help but think WVU shouldn't find itself in too much disrepair, provided the school doesn't shelve the team completely until they get every last buck from Rich Rodriguez.
