The parallels are eerie. 2004 was Croom’s first season and we had lost to Maine, Vandy and UAB. Ron Zook was on the hot seat at Florida when they came into Starkville looking for a pick me up win. We somehow won that game, Zook was fired the next day, and the verb Croomed was invented. Will history repeat itself? Will we somehow beat Florida? Will Napier get Lebbied? It is kind of odd just how much of a parallel there is in that season and this one.
Could this be a repeat of 2004?
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If this is a beginnings of Croom II, then I'm jumping off that train.
Seems more like 88. Downpour during game 1, we win, and then...
Need lenny to start wearing that rope hat crooked
I’d actually put us beating Florida this weekend at a higher chance than I would’ve had us winning in 2004
I’m feeling 40% for this one and would’ve put 2004 at 5%
Jerious Norwood aint walkin thru that door.
What about dressing up in a no contact practice uniform and riding around in a golf cart?
This team is winning maybe one more game. The whole defense is hurt and/or sucks! Hate the scheme too. Nothing at RB/OL either so FL is going to beat us until we like it.
Crazy part is I think our oline and dline was better that season from what I've seen so far this season
I'm pretty sure this is the term for when a straight girl gets flipped to team Subaru.
Croom actually inherited decent talent. Definitely some holes, but a good coach would have won with that team.
I don't know that we have much talent now. I'm sure it's not worse than Toledo's so we obviously have some pretty major coaching issues too, but I do think we are probably not an SEC team talent wise.
No, Tech and 10 had a scrappy, yet slow, defense. We could stick. The problem was we were undersized and outmanned.
Not crazy at all. I don't think there's any doubt about it.
That is what sucks about this year. There is not a single player I am excited to watch play. Not one. Even in the dark times there was somebody I thought might do something awesome
This is the worst talent I've ever seen and the insane number of injuries compounds the problem. We don't have squat! QB and WR is ok but after that it's basically a safety and a bunch of stiffs. The young guys need to just get thrown into the fray.
We know we are in trouble when we're fondly recalling the scrappiness of the "Tech and Ten" defense.
I'm just saying for perspective as to how bad croom was and where we are supposed to be now. It's scary that croom had better lines than we do now
At least the game is early so that it won't ruin my entire day of college football.
Between our game and the NFL, I probably had the worst weekend ever last week.
Between our game and the NFL, I probably had the worst weekend ever last week.
No doubt. That team had future NFL talent on the lines in David Stewart and Deljuan Robinson. Willie Evans also led the SEC in sacks that next year. I don't see anyone on our current o line or d line making an NFL roster
at this point why not? Because you are afraid we will lose???
I never wear white on white out. I feel it is bad luck. I am wearing white this time. It can't hurt.
And in a day and age where running backs are an absolute dime a dozen, one of the most inexcusable things about this roster is our RB situation. I get it, our O line isn't great, but good grief... I don't know that we have a RB on the roster that could find ten yards against a local HS team
You haven't watched Kevin Coleman? He's out there making **** happen by himself a lot of the time.
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