First of all, if you are ever coming to Starkville and need a place to stay, I recommend the Holiday Inn Express. By far the nicest hotel with the friendliest staff of all the hotels in town. I come to you with this rambling from its business center tonight.
It is now clear to me that Sylvester Croom is the most imcompetent manager of a football game there is in college football today. Call me a pessimist, but I told nearly everyone who knows me on a personal level that there was no way I was going to parade Croom around town on a camel and proclaim him king of the world and the answer to our problems after just one year. I said that I believed last year was a fluke, and it was going to take Croom proving me wrong this year until I believed otherwise. Well, looks like last year was a fluke!!
Why is that at LA Tech, on 4th and 4 from our own 48 yard line with 3:03 to go and 1 time out left, that we punt the ball? Why is it tonight, that on 4th and 14 with just under 4 minutes to go and 2 time outs left on our own 44 yard line (I may be wrong on the line), we go for it against a team who had pretty much stopped us all night?
Why is it that at LA Tech we played a two QB system, but tonight, at a time when Croom should have switched QB'S and given Tyson Lee a chance to spark the offense, he stuck with Wesley Carol the whole night? GIVE THE BACK UP A CHANCE TO PROVIDE A SPARK!
Ray Charles could predict our play calling. How many times on 3rd and 6 or more, did we run a 3 yard or less pass route? Why is it that over the past 5 seasons, this has been the norm?
How many times does a top 10 team gift wrap a game to you in your own back yard, and you say, "No thanks. You take it, we don't want it!" A decent football team takes the gift and wins the game. Unfortunately, we are not even a decent team.
If I play on defense, I am royally pissed at the offense. My only defensive complaint was the fact that we tried to pressure their QB all night with 4 down linemen, and rarely blitzed. Other than that, they get a free pass.
In my line of work, if I don't produce, I get fired. Bottom line, no questions asked. Why is it at Mississippi State, we give our offensive "coach" a $75,000 pay raise and a contract extension after a season in which his offense was ranked 100 and something? WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY? I hope that our new AD holds our coaching staff accountable and rolls some heads after this year. I am begining to think Croom's contract extension was a huge mistake. Face it people, you may hate Croom, but he's here. We can't afford to buy him out.
As much as I loathed Jackieass Sherrill at the end of his regime, seeing he and the 1998 team on the field tonight sure did make me miss the fun we had those 4 years I was in school.
The season is over with. We were hanging on by a cliff after the LA Tech debacle, and tonight, Auburn delivered the knock out blow!!! If we somehow turn this thing around and make a bowl game, I will make a public apology on here, and will personally send Croom a letter apologizing. BUT IT'S OVER! YOU CAN WRAP THE SEASON IN MAROON AND WHITE
I don't want to hear our fan base spewing their venom telling me "It's OK! There's a lot of football left to be played." It's not OK! With the schedule we play, we should be 3-0 right now!!!
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It is now clear to me that Sylvester Croom is the most imcompetent manager of a football game there is in college football today. Call me a pessimist, but I told nearly everyone who knows me on a personal level that there was no way I was going to parade Croom around town on a camel and proclaim him king of the world and the answer to our problems after just one year. I said that I believed last year was a fluke, and it was going to take Croom proving me wrong this year until I believed otherwise. Well, looks like last year was a fluke!!
Why is that at LA Tech, on 4th and 4 from our own 48 yard line with 3:03 to go and 1 time out left, that we punt the ball? Why is it tonight, that on 4th and 14 with just under 4 minutes to go and 2 time outs left on our own 44 yard line (I may be wrong on the line), we go for it against a team who had pretty much stopped us all night?
Why is it that at LA Tech we played a two QB system, but tonight, at a time when Croom should have switched QB'S and given Tyson Lee a chance to spark the offense, he stuck with Wesley Carol the whole night? GIVE THE BACK UP A CHANCE TO PROVIDE A SPARK!
Ray Charles could predict our play calling. How many times on 3rd and 6 or more, did we run a 3 yard or less pass route? Why is it that over the past 5 seasons, this has been the norm?
How many times does a top 10 team gift wrap a game to you in your own back yard, and you say, "No thanks. You take it, we don't want it!" A decent football team takes the gift and wins the game. Unfortunately, we are not even a decent team.
If I play on defense, I am royally pissed at the offense. My only defensive complaint was the fact that we tried to pressure their QB all night with 4 down linemen, and rarely blitzed. Other than that, they get a free pass.
In my line of work, if I don't produce, I get fired. Bottom line, no questions asked. Why is it at Mississippi State, we give our offensive "coach" a $75,000 pay raise and a contract extension after a season in which his offense was ranked 100 and something? WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY? I hope that our new AD holds our coaching staff accountable and rolls some heads after this year. I am begining to think Croom's contract extension was a huge mistake. Face it people, you may hate Croom, but he's here. We can't afford to buy him out.
As much as I loathed Jackieass Sherrill at the end of his regime, seeing he and the 1998 team on the field tonight sure did make me miss the fun we had those 4 years I was in school.
The season is over with. We were hanging on by a cliff after the LA Tech debacle, and tonight, Auburn delivered the knock out blow!!! If we somehow turn this thing around and make a bowl game, I will make a public apology on here, and will personally send Croom a letter apologizing. BUT IT'S OVER! YOU CAN WRAP THE SEASON IN MAROON AND WHITE
I don't want to hear our fan base spewing their venom telling me "It's OK! There's a lot of football left to be played." It's not OK! With the schedule we play, we should be 3-0 right now!!!
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