http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/10/slyvester_croom_looks_back_wit.html
Typos (Mullin) and grammatical errors in the article.
Typos (Mullin) and grammatical errors in the article.
Croom on Mississippi State's season so far
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Yeah, I saw that in my "Mississippi" Press Register (Jackson County Coast Rats will get the joke). I actually liked that read and liked that there are apparently no hard feelings anymore. It is pretty cool that he is rooting for us and more importantly it is more good press for us.
I've softened on Croom. He was a symptom of the LT problem, not the cause of it. Ninja and Grasshopper have brought our athletic department much needed progress. Croom had gotten so used to the low expectations we had under LT including holding onto incompetent assistants. However, his hire was something only someone with low expectations would make as there was nothing about him that would make you think he could build us into a championship program.
For whatever mistakes com made when he was coaching, my only real problem with him were some of the comments he made after being asks to resign. I have been very hard on croom because he was critical when he was given more opportunity and time by us than any other school would hav. But all is forgiven in my book. Croom was human and it's hard for people to handle when they or other people feel they've failed. If he's gotten past the need to criticize msu, I'm ready to welcome him back to the program and for everyone to be rightfully proud of his time here. And while he may not have had the success we/he wanted, there is no doubt he did leave Mullen a program with a lot pieces in place.
ETA: "crooms" is now retired from my vocabulary.
ETA: "crooms" is now retired from my vocabulary.
2 things keep me from welcoming him back, at least for now:
1. Keeping Woodie McCorvey around. That wasn't loyalty, that was bullheaded stupidity.
2. "We expected to lose to Maine"
Time heals all wounds, maybe one day....
1. Keeping Woodie McCorvey around. That wasn't loyalty, that was bullheaded stupidity.
2. "We expected to lose to Maine"
Time heals all wounds, maybe one day....
Good riddance. He has nothing to do with our current success, quite the opposite actually.
I've always thought he was full of himself. This just solidified that.
ETA: There are 1000 articles about how Mullen came in and flipped the administration upside down because they were doing it wrong, now Croom is taking credit for doing that 4 years earlier? C'mon. Academics? You've got to be kidding me.
I've always thought he was full of himself. This just solidified that.
ETA: There are 1000 articles about how Mullen came in and flipped the administration upside down because they were doing it wrong, now Croom is taking credit for doing that 4 years earlier? C'mon. Academics? You've got to be kidding me.
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I don't remember Mullen having to deal with any discipline issues when he came on board, so credit Croom for that.
Otherwise, I prefer just to close the book on that error of MSU football.
I've softened on Croom but I'm still not a fan. His job at State was to build a program not correct social wrongs. However, he handled that interview about as well as anyone could expect in that situation.
And we still don`t know how a real HC would have handled the discipline issues we had. Croom over dramatized a lot of that crap to make himself look good. He was definitely full of himself and full of ****.
He was an OK recruiter but had no idea about game planning, prep, and the 5000 other things a barely competent coach has to do. The Maine and Tulane losses coupled w/his walk around Bryant-Denny killed it for me. He take his golf cart and..........................
Who do you think would show up for some sort of commemoration ceremony first, Croom or Templeton?
C'mon....what's he gonna do? Get forced to resign and show up the next day wearing an MSU sweatshirt? Gimme a break. Plus, the stuff may have gone to people who were really happy to receive it and wear it proudly.
Mullen runs a tight ship, but I remember a lot of Croom's guys getting arrested pretty often...
I'm with thatsbaseball. I think he sold the MSU faithful on discipline because he had nothing else to offer. The problem was that he was mediocre as a disciplinarian in addition to being a bad coach.
Guy was just pompous. I think any sort of praise is grasping at straws.