PHOENIX -- Baylor players, grinning widely, gave their one-year, interim coach Jim Grobe the customary ice-and-Gatorade shower after the Bears upset Boise State 31-12 in the Motel 6 Cactus Bowl on Tuesday night.
"It was kind of fun getting dumped," Grobe said.
It was a happy ending to a horrific season, one in which a six-game losing streak that followed a 6-0 start was secondary to the off-field tumult, which began when coach Art Briles was fired in May amid an investigation of the school's and football program's handling of sexual-assault cases.
Now Grobe walks away and new coach Matt Rhule, who rebuilt Temple, takes over with what is almost certain to be an entirely new coaching staff.