As this is a Wake Forest post, please allow me to get this obligatory reference out of the way before continuing: Jim Grobe pulled in over $2.9 million as the Demon Deacons’ head coach in 2010. Not meaning this in either a good way or a bad, but that number continues to be one of the most amazing stats in the history of college football.
Now, where were we actually headed? Oh yeah...
Grobe announced Wednesday that cornerback Kevin Johnson (pictured) and defensive end Kevin Smith will not be with the team in 2011.
Johnson has been declared academically ineligible for the upcoming season but, after taking a redshirt for the year, is expected to return to the team and play in 2012. Smith, on the other hand, received the toe end of Grobe’s boot for “too many” off-the-field issues and will not return to the program. he had also been suspended for spring practice due to those issues Grobe speaks of.
“It’s just too many things,’' Grobe told the Winston-Salem Journal in regards to the defensive lineman. “It’s a lot of different things. There’s not any one thing you can put your finger on, but just too many issues — all over the place.
“He’s a kid with good football potential but couldn’t take care of all the other things that were going on off the field.”
Both players played in 11 games and started five in 2010, and were projected as starters heading into this offseason.