Al Groh

Al Groh, whose full name is Albert Michael Groh II, was born on 13 July 1944 and is an American former football player and coach, remembered chiefly for his coaching. Born in New York City and raised in Manhasset on Long Island, he played defensive end for the Virginia Cavaliers football team from 1963 to 1965, lettering in 1965, and also lettered on defense for the Virginia lacrosse team. After graduating in 1967 he went into coaching, beginning at Army in 1968, and spent more than a decade working under Bill Parcells, including as an assistant on the New York Giants team that won Super Bowl XXV. He was head coach at Wake Forest from 1981 to 1986 and at Virginia from 2001 to 2009, where he was twice named Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, in 2002 and 2007. He also led the New York Jets for the 2000 season, winning nine games and losing seven, and finished his career as defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech in 2012.