Alabama about to do things "the right way "
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I know it’s just a Facebook comment, so it shouldn’t rile me up, but here is the first comment:
Remember those teams Croom had at Mississippi St? If this team with as much talent as they have had as much grit as those teams they’d be National Champions.
i think the absolute worst part about the croom era was the way the whole country poor mouthed state while saying how great croom was. It was never his fault, it was always poor little ole state’s fault that we were so bad. And he leaned into that crap too.
Remember those teams Croom had at Mississippi St? If this team with as much talent as they have had as much grit as those teams they’d be National Champions.
i think the absolute worst part about the croom era was the way the whole country poor mouthed state while saying how great croom was. It was never his fault, it was always poor little ole state’s fault that we were so bad. And he leaned into that crap too.
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Sylvester Croom decided to recruit a QB one time because he liked the way he tackled after throwing an interception.
Also in a tight game in Athens on 4th down we went for it on Georgia’s 40, got it, and then 4 plays later punted from the 30.
…..good times….
Also in a tight game in Athens on 4th down we went for it on Georgia’s 40, got it, and then 4 plays later punted from the 30.
…..good times….
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One thing I appreciated from Herbstreit is that when we finally fired Croom someone suggested Croom should’ve gotten another year, and Herbstreit was like “no, it was time”
We also went for it vs Auburn 4th and 1 from our 40 and punted from their 40 4th and 1. I think it was also Auburn that he ran the last 3 minutes off the clock before half because he was scared to give them the ball back.
If they were forced to watch the latech and gatech losses they would sing a different tune
The narrative that he was doing everything the right was was so ridiculous. It was an excuse for running a losing program and he lapped it up.
Also, roughly half of our defense from 2008 was arrested and kicked out of school before the season. He wasn't doing anything the "right way" any more than anyone else.
Croom is my least favorite MSU coach ever, and that’s saying something.
We encouraged and enabled that shlt. He probably wouldn't have let it go to his head so much had it not started from inside our own university. Talk about an athletic department with no self-esteem at all, we let people tell us that King Jackie was some sort of evil entity, and we believed it. Funny thing is, I KNEW we were hiring Clownboy Croom as soon as Jackie announced his resignation. All that Alabama crap had just went down, and LT's dubmass was there to pick up the pieces.
Funny thing is, if Croom hadn't had such an ego and let all the politics go to his head, AND had understood his strengths and weaknesses, AND had been held accountable by the AD......I do sometimes wonder if he could have had success. He needed to realize that he had no real X/O strength, but he WAS strong in recruiting and motivating - very similar to Dabo or Orgeron. Had he let go - and hired a good fit at OC like he did at DC, no telling what could have been done.
Of course, we all knew he'd be a failure when we came out in those horrific uniforms. We really had to try hard to 17 up our program as much as we did from 2004-2006. Once Doc started lighting fire under his asss, recruiting did get better.
I was at the arse whooping that ole miss put on us in Oxford for what would be Croom’s last game. I was openly cheering for ole miss to run the score up. I wanted there to be no doubt what needed to happen.
Ole miss had more points than we had total yards in that game. It was the worst performance I have ever seen
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