Jim Grobe was named Monday as the new head football coach at Baylor University, following a sexual-assault scandal and administrator shakeup that has rattled the Texas school. Grobe was the 2006 AP’s National Coach of the Year and enjoyed record-setting tenures at Wake Forest and Ohio University, and takes over immediately for Art Briles, who was terminated last week. “It is an honor for me to have the opportunity to join the Baylor football program during this important time,” said Grobe. “I want to assure the Baylor family that every decision we will make in this football program will be made with Baylor University, her students and our student-athletes in mind.” Hours later, Vice President and Director of Athletics Ian McCaw resigned, after he had been sanctioned and placed on probation by the school’s board of regents. “After much reflection and prayer, I have decided that a change in athletics department leadership is in Baylor University’s best interest in order to promote the unity, healing and restoration that must occur in order to move forward,” McCaw wrote in a statement. — Olivia Messer
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