he is stubborn, egotistical, always right, too quick to lay the blame, has a team with just as many criminals as any other average team out there, shoots off at the mouth way too often, and finally he is condescending to the fans of MSU to the point of being a snob.
now...i know i will get blasted for that statement. i said the same **** last year when we were winning. i was glad to have him last year simply because we were winning because i don't care about his greatness or his character as long as he wins. it just aggrivates the hell out of me that he has gotten a pass from many because he is a "great" man of "character."
i will admit too that i believe croom does have some of the qualities that people say he has but the extent of which is debateable. and the other things i listed above make him human. so i think it is a wash.
to me....he is simply a bad coach and nothing else. the great man of character crap has got to stop because i think that along with some of the other social pressures are what has kept him here so long. he needs to be graded objectively on his ability to coach this team and take us to the next level. NOTHING ELSE. i don't care if it is his color, his attitude, his weight, his graduation rate, his turning of boys into men, etc....it needs to be on whether or not he can consistently win. period. until then we are stuck with the experiment for a very long time.