This will piss you off...

[TR.sixpack]

It shouldn't be a surprise, though, since there's a complete lack of perspective in the SEC. Where else could Sylvester Croom go from being coach of the year to resigning in less than 12 months? And who are the people who expect consistent and unyielding success every year in Starkville? It's the Pullman of the South, with one big difference: In Pullman, Washington State coaches understand the difficulties in recruiting against schools in California and Arizona. In Starkville, they must figure a guy who gets coach of the year in the SEC one year should logically become coach of the year for the whole nation the next.

Or do people in the South consider that the same thing?

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[graddawg]

It shouldn't be a surprise, though, since there's a complete lack of perspective in the SEC. Where else could Sylvester Croom go from being coach of the year to resigning in less than 12 months? And who are the people who expect consistent and unyielding success every year in Starkville? It's the Pullman of the South, with one big difference: In Pullman, Washington State coaches understand the difficulties in recruiting against schools in California and Arizona. <span style="font-weight: bold;">In Starkville, they must figure a guy who gets coach of the year in the SEC one year should logically become coach of the year for the whole nation the next.</span>

Or do people in the South consider that the same thing?

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How can someone say something like this with a straight face? We finished 4-8 with a loss to LaTech. That's a far cry from National Coach of the Year honors.

 

[benatmsu]

I just don't get the fascination with that damn award.

 

[TDAWG.sixpack]

I WOULD agree with that if Croom would have not had those 3 straight 3 win seasons before the bowl season. Maybe one 3 win season and i would agree. Hell even two of those and i might be leaning borderline

 

[Stormrider81]

When was the last time a coach went 7-5 and got a Liberty Bowl level bid and won coach of the year?

 

[Hugo Sanchez.sixpack]

fuckthatguyku

 

[dawgfan77]

Croom averaged 4 wins a year and that includes the 8 win year last year. So what if he was SEC coach of the year in 2007, look at his whole body of work. Stupid game day decsions, lack of recruiting QB's, lack of a productive offense, and his smug better than you attitude toward the fans. I bet this guy has never been to Starkville.

 

[TR.sixpack]

Liberty Bowl winning coach.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

In Pullman, Washington State coaches understand the difficulties in recruiting against schools in California and Arizona.

So Washington State's recruiting base is a thousand mile swath of land to the south that offers ten of thousands of quality high school football players (tens of thousands in the state of California alone I might add) yet they (ie, Washington State) "understand the difficulties in recruiting against schools in California and Arizona?"

Put it this way: The California recruting base is like the Florida recruiting base, except the California recruiting base has about 50 times more quality recruits to choose from.

Meanwhile, Miss. State is stuck with recruiting the Coast, the Delta & Anniston, Alabama.

It's amazing the lengths these know-nothing buttholes will go to in order to downplay Miss. State.