thatsbaseball said:
He`s not a stand up guy at all and everytime you ask for specific examples of his "greatness" "character" "good man" qualities you get no response or a blank stare. It`s like " Sylvester Croom is a great man pass it on" and not a damn soul wants to know why it`s being said.</p>
That's called marketing. Basically he spewed the character and discipline lines so much that everyone bought what he was selling. Yet no one ever thought to check back and see if what he was actually doing fit that line. Outside of the beginning of his tenure when he went "tough love" on Jackie's players, he did very little in the way of discipline, and all the excuse making and the attacks at the fans showed a lack of character.
Like I said before, if he had great character, he'd be taking the blame when things go wrong even if they weren't necessarily his fault. Basically, outside of proclaiming to be a Christian man, there was very little he did to back up the marketing job that he put on. And naturally the media ran with it because he was the first African-American coach in the SEC, and they were going to give him a pass for as long as possible.
Of course, the bad thing for you is that now you have to put up with a group of your fans that will continue to believe that the most important quality in a head coach is character and discipline, sort of like the portion of our fanbase that still thinks we should be flipping out about recruiting rankings. It takes some a little longer to get over it.
