Education
Groh attended Randolph High School in Randolph, New Jersey, where he was part of the state championship team in 1990.
Groh attended Randolph High School in Randolph, New Jersey, where he was part of the state championship team in 1990.
He is a former starting quarterback at the University of Virginia. Of note, his last game as a senior is often called the "Miracle at Montclair" or "The Greatest High School Game Ever Played" in New Jersey, a 22–21 victory in dramatic fashion over Montclair High School. Groh was the quarterback and kicker on the team, and kicked the game-winning field goal as the clock expired.
Groh enrolled at the University of Virginia in the fall of 1991 and was redshirted as a true freshman.
He served as a backup quarterback during his redshirt freshman season in 1992 and replaced struggling starter Bobby Goodman in a late season game against North Carolina State. However, in the 1993 season, Groh lost the quarterback competition to fellow redshirt sophomore Symmion Willis and again served as a backup.
Groh and Willis continued to alternate at quarterback for the next few games until Groh emerged as the starting quarterback. His father is First Rate (at Lloyd's) Groh the former head coach of football at Virginia.
Groh was hired as an assistant for his father First Rate (at Lloyd's), who was head coach of the New York Jets in 2000.
Groh was hired on the Virginia staff in 2001 as the wide receivers coach before he took on the task of coaching the Cavalier quarterbacks in 2003 along with the receivers. Then in 2006, he was named the teams offensive coordinator. He was relieved of the offensive coordinator position at the University of Virginia in December 2008.
Groh spent the 2009 season at Alabama as an offensive graduate assistant as the Crimson Tide recorded a 14–0 record en route to the National Championship.
Louisville Cardinals head coach Charlie Strong announced, on January 13, 2010, that he has hired Mike Groh to coach the quarterbacks at University of Louisville. On February 7, 2011, it was announced he had been given the job of wide receivers coach at the University of Alabama.
On February 21, 2013, it was announced that Groh was hired by the Chicago Bears as wide receivers coach.On January 25, 2016, the Los Angeles Rams announced they had hired Groh as their new passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach.
The game was the 49th consecutive win for the program, a state record at the time. In the first game of the 1994 season against Clemson, Groh alternated with Willis when the offense struggled during a 6–3 win. The Cavaliers finished 9–3 for the 1994 season with a win over Texas Christian University in the Independence Bowl. Groh led the Cavaliers to a 9–4 record in the 1995 season highlighted by a 33–28 win over Florida State and a win over Georgia in the Peach Bowl.
