Did anyone else see Jim Grobe's comments at Big 12 media days?

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“It almost goes without saying that when you combine alcohol and drugs and raging hormones and the experience of 18- to 22-year-olds, it’s probably unrealistic to think that these kinds of things are never going to happen,” he said.

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"Well, I have to push back, again, and tell you that is not a culture at Baylor University. We don't have a culture of bad behavior at Baylor University. Our kids, I thought Holly and I had a tough time raising two kids in Matt and Ben and they turned out to be great kids. But anybody that's raised kids understands that when you got over 100 of those guys it's a little bit tougher.

For me personally, when I took the job I was assured that I could make any changes with the coaching staff that I needed to make. When I got here, my plan was to be at Baylor's direction, really. I'm working for Baylor University. When I got here, I found, I've had nobody tell me about assistant coaches' misbehavior. If our assistant coaches' conduct had been bad, if anybody told me that, if anybody can come to me and point out that the coaches have not behaved properly then I would have no problems making changes.

But I think from our players' standpoint and from our players' perspective, we lost our President. We lost our athletic director. We lost our football coach. We lost some other staff members. So for me to come in andmake changes without reason made no sense to me whatsoever. I will tell you as a coach I've never been a coach to hire friends.

I think the tendency for any new coach from a comfort perspective is to come in and make a lot of changes and bring all his biddies in to coach for him. But looking back at what this football staff has done, and I'm strictly talking about football right now, they have been very successful and done a great job on the field. If I felt like there was misconduct on the part of any of my coaches I would have no problems dealing with that.

But as I've said, I've not found that to be the case and nobody's told me that is the case so going forward in thinking of the great kids that we have on our team right now, I felt like the best thing we could do for them is to try to keep consistency in the coaches, have the same coach in the meeting room, have the same terminology, and try to, you know, put our arms around the players and take care of them. I thought the best way to take care of them was to try to keep the coaching staff together as long as I didn't find any problems when I got here."

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During a second round of interviews Tuesday afternoon, Grobe tried to clarify his comments. He said his statement on Baylor's culture applies to today and not the state of the program when he took over, which he said "obviously" had problems. “Was there a problem before I got to Baylor with the way these issues were dealt with? Absolutely. I don’t mean to speak to that at all," Grobe said. "What I want to speak to is the kids I’ve been associated with since I’ve been at Baylor, and I’ve just seen a bunch of great kids.” Above all, Grobe said he wanted those watching to know the players still with the program are “a great group of kids,” adding that going forward BU will be “better than we’ve ever been.”

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