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Filling the toughest coaching role in America this season, Jim Grobe did a thankless job with grace

Baylor interim football coach Jim Grobe confirmed Monday what most of us already knew. His coaching career will (once again) come to a close Saturday in the state where he was born and raised, West Virginia.

He came out of retirement this past summer after fielding a call from his longtime friend and mentor Grant Teaff. Since the former Baylor coach was too old and sick to do it himself, he turned to Grobe to lead a football program that was embroiled in a sexual-assault scandal. It was the most thankless task one could take on even if the $1.