WHat pisses me off the most about Croom (today)......

[DawgatAuburn]

....is not all of his excuse making. I guess I am immune to that by now.
It's not his smug attitude. I guess I am used to that too.
It's not that he hasn't said a positive word about us in the days since he "resigned."

No, the thing that pisses me off most about Croom is that he won't call Veazey and Locke back. The two beat reporters that covered him closer than anyone over the last six months, and he doesn't have the decency to call them back, yet he can find time to go poor mouthing on CBS and talk radio. Remember all that talk about what a high man of character he is?? GARBAGE. Croom is TRASH and I am glad we kicked his sorry butt to the curb. If I ever see him in Starkville, I will be sure and relay those thoughts to him.

And by the way, if Fogelsong was President, we would be looking for a new Director of the University TV Center, since that's the venue Croom used to trash us on the CBS interview. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???? Tell Croom to drive his fat *** to WCBI if he wants to be on TV. You don't work here. Can just anyone call the TV center and use the facilities???

 

[Shmuley]

They might actually ask follow-up questions that unravel his ****** excuses. No, Croom's agenda is clear. He's taking his excuses to the land of ESPN where there is precious little insight into Croom's pitiful performance and poor decision-making.

 

[Stormrider81]

First of all, men of good character aren't slothful on the job. The man claims to be a strong man of faith, but Christians are instructed to serve their employer to the best of their abilities. I don't care what the employer said when he was hired, he should have tried to excell from day one. I believe Richard Williams was given low expectations but still set his sights on bigger and better things.

Then, to blame everyone else but yourself, even though you claim otherwise in interviews, really throws any supposed character out of the window. Seriously, who blames a safety for not making an interception and running it back for a touchdown in a game where your offense is pitiful, you missed a PAT and a chipshot field goal, and the coaching decisions were moronic at best and still call himself a man of character?

Finally, he says he wishes the players the best, and then turns around and makes excuses for why he was forced out, really saying that the administration wasn't fair to him. Dear Croom, if you want the players to be successful and the program to do well then you need to keep your trap shut and let us hire a good coach.

We all knew he was given a pass. I was surprised though to hear him use that as an excuse in interviews. Had those hacks been doing their jobs they would have jumped on that and destroyed such thinking.

 

[DerHntr]

every time that he opens his mouth that one of the reporters is going to go for the throat. someone at some point on live TV is going to bust him for this crap.

the character myth has all but unraveled.

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[cps36]

He straight up said that the only thing that matters is winning. He told the truth when he said

"What happens, the reasons for not winning, the things that can happen to a team during the course of a season, the things that can happen in a program. A lot of those things are going under the radar, are not as important as they used to be." "Winning games is the bottom line."

The reasons for losing doesn't matter. He just said it.

Quote for me where Croom said one bad thing about MSU. I gather from the interview that he is basically saying that he thought he was going to get another year and was changing OC, but instead Byrne fired him. Thats just the facts of what happened. It's not bad mouthing. He never said MSU was wrong to fire him.

 

[kired]

They might actually ask follow-up questions that unravel his ****** excuses. No, Croom's agenda is clear. He's taking his excuses to the land of ESPN where there is precious little insight into Croom's pitiful performance and poor decision-making.

That is it exactly - he's talking to people that are only interested in airing his side of the story - they don't comment on his actual year 5 performance, for instance: the LA Tech loss, and then 5 games in which we scored 7 points or less - including the 31-3 loss to Tennessee (which later lost to.....Wyoming), the 3-2 embarrasement, and getting destroyed by GA Tech & Ole Miss.