we had a 7:00 am practice that focused solely on special teams. Also, no more QB rotation. Carroll is the guy. Too bad it took a loss to La Tech to figure this out.
Well, at least Croom is making an adjustment.....
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Why didn't Eric Richards or Robert Elliot play? Were they not expected to contribute?
<font size="2" face="Tahoma">Anthony Dixon, got all of 18 carries. He totaled 91 yards, the same as the team's net total, and six of his runs moved the first-down markers.
The Bulldogs passed the ball 40 times and ran it 31. Flip those numbers, and you might have a different result. Do you guys really and truly still think McCorvey is a good OC? Jesus, he always plays to our weaknesses!!!! Everyone knows we have a noodle-arm for a QB and a stock pile of good running backs. What does he do? He calls more plays to our weakness. Teams like La-Tech, we should have pounded the ball. I just don't get him at all. He really needs to get his sorry *** out of the booth. He is killing the offense, that is, when we actually hang on to the possessions. His play calling is and always will be lame and pathetic. He is nothing more than a sideline assistant coach.
Punter Blake McAdams averaged just 31.9 yards a kick, including a 16-yarder late in the fourth quarter. When will Croom realize he needs to recruit a punter. It wouldn't take me 3 or 4 years to watch some limp-leg kick it 16 to 30 yards a game to realize I need a punter. I have said it over and over and over, when you don't have a high octane offense(and State hasn't in a long *** time) and an OC like McCorvey, your most used player is your punter.
Geezzzz, I know it's easy to sit back and couch coach, but come on guys, its been 5 years now. I know Croom is a good disciplinarian and a good character person, but do you really really deep down think he can coach a team like State in the SEC and be a consistent winner? I think he might if he surrounds himself with a real OC. We lost a good DC in Johnson, but it looks like we have a decent one now. Croom needs to forget all the brotherly love ******** and can McCorvey, before he gets canned himself.
I'm trying to make some serious sense here and not just blowing off to be funny. Punting and OC, Come on Croom, wake the F*** up!!
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma">Anthony Dixon, got all of 18 carries. He totaled 91 yards, the same as the team's net total, and six of his runs moved the first-down markers.
The Bulldogs passed the ball 40 times and ran it 31. Flip those numbers, and you might have a different result. Do you guys really and truly still think McCorvey is a good OC? Jesus, he always plays to our weaknesses!!!! Everyone knows we have a noodle-arm for a QB and a stock pile of good running backs. What does he do? He calls more plays to our weakness. Teams like La-Tech, we should have pounded the ball. I just don't get him at all. He really needs to get his sorry *** out of the booth. He is killing the offense, that is, when we actually hang on to the possessions. His play calling is and always will be lame and pathetic. He is nothing more than a sideline assistant coach.
Punter Blake McAdams averaged just 31.9 yards a kick, including a 16-yarder late in the fourth quarter. When will Croom realize he needs to recruit a punter. It wouldn't take me 3 or 4 years to watch some limp-leg kick it 16 to 30 yards a game to realize I need a punter. I have said it over and over and over, when you don't have a high octane offense(and State hasn't in a long *** time) and an OC like McCorvey, your most used player is your punter.
Geezzzz, I know it's easy to sit back and couch coach, but come on guys, its been 5 years now. I know Croom is a good disciplinarian and a good character person, but do you really really deep down think he can coach a team like State in the SEC and be a consistent winner? I think he might if he surrounds himself with a real OC. We lost a good DC in Johnson, but it looks like we have a decent one now. Croom needs to forget all the brotherly love ******** and can McCorvey, before he gets canned himself.
I'm trying to make some serious sense here and not just blowing off to be funny. Punting and OC, Come on Croom, wake the F*** up!!
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma">This is not about wins and losses. This is about social justice. Martin Luther Croom has a dream. One day the college football world will judge the available head coaching candidates not by the content of their competency, but by the color of their skin. We must all be willing to sacrifice the good of the MState football program for the greater struggle.
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bulldawg225 said:
Did I miss something? I don't think ANYONE on here thinks McCorvey is a good OC...
Why didn't Eric Richards or Robert Elliot play? Were they not expected to contribute?
Elliot was gonna play when we got a good lead, but since we blew it, he didn't get in, mainly because of his average pass-blocking skills. Croom couldn't afford to play him when things got tight...
As for Richards(ya'll gonna love this)......he hurt his hip again. But he didn't tell anyone until gametime...so he did not play.
Elliot was gonna play when we got a good lead, but since we blew it, he didn't get in, mainly because of his average pass-blocking skills. Croom couldn't afford to play him when things got tight...
As for Richards(ya'll gonna love this)......he hurt his hip again. But he didn't tell anyone until gametime...so he did not play.
Bulldawg225, I say AMEN to all of that! We don't have a high octane offense right now, so RUN THE DAMN BALL. We did it last year and won 8 games. Were they pretty? No, and they won't be this year either. Maybe one day (T. Russell??) we'll have that kind of offense, but it wasn't Saturday night. The 2 worst positions on our team are QB and Punter. We keep throwing the ball at a 4:3 ratio and we'll see more of the same as Tech. We HAVE to control the field position and shorten games up. You do this with controlling clock and good special teams. Our punter is so bad, that we can't count on him, so moving the ball becomes paramount. We can only depend on Dixon to do this.
.....something going drastically wrong for Croom and company to make any changes. I'm not talking about just having trouble running the ball or passing it, or the defense or special teams struggling. It always literally takes an extremely embarrassing loss to make any change, and most of the time it's a common sense change that should have been implemented in the first place. This tends to lend creedence to any accusations of incompetence in the coaching staff.
to correct a. not let Mcadams punt b. not kick it out of bounds on a kick off c. not let wade bonner's timid self return kicks d. put Pegues right back into the PR slot.
Seriously, Im glad we recognize its a problem, but what exactly did we work on?
Seriously, Im glad we recognize its a problem, but what exactly did we work on?
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Columbus Dawg said:
That dumb 17er. He should have known this before the tampon training session we had sat night...
1.7million for that 17ing ****. What an *** clown
ArrowDawg said:
I agree, there is nothing croom does that is proactive. He acts like there was no way to evaluate his team until after an embarrassing loss. The guy is an awful coach, plain and simple. I do think it is funny that for the past few years all we have seen on here is how croom does nothing but run between the tackles and doesn't throw the ball downfield. Hell, for the past couple of weeks it has been all about opening up the offense or running the spread. We don't have the talent at coach or QB to do that. Now everyone is screaming to run between the tackles again and the funny thing is that if we had run between the tackles and pounded it down their throat we might have won. There has got to be a good mix of both to keep them from stacking line and loading up the box. Croom doesn't seem capable of having a good mix, it is either all run or all pass. He is bad and thanks to LT we are stuck with him. Everyone asking what croom has to do to get fired this season is dreaming. he is not going anywhere any time soon and that sux.
than watch another one of McAdam's punts roll back to him. The end result would be the same either way: ******. There has to be someone on that campus that can average better than 31 yards a punt. Hell, I bet my old *** could do it.
he just riding the scholarship train. I've known several players on the D1 level that didn't really want to be out there on the field and were content to ride the bench. Richards is either a really hard luck guy or prone to injury. Either way, I'm not sure we'll ever see him punting the ball.
Barkman Turner Overdrive said:
Not to mention that the guy was a walk-on that had offers from no one else. I wonder what the hell Croom is thinking when he does this stuff. Sadly, I think it was something like this:
"Man, this Tyson Lee guy is a great student, he works hard, and I really like him a lot. It would be great to see someone like him do well and be a hero at MSU. " There are probably a bunch of Tyson Lee's in the SEC, but we have the only coach that actually believes that he MIGHT belong on the field.
He did the same thing with Henig last year, and thankfully for us he got hurt.
What Croom did was send Wes Carroll some big time mixed signals- you're our leader, our starter, but we're gonna play two QB's.
8, calling a 7:00 am practice is just something that coaches do to emphasize the problem. And getting more reps can't hurt. It's better than nothing.</p>
I only saw the last 5 minutes of your game because I was at our game, but from reading the paper, it sounded like Lee statistically had a much better showing. I'm curious as to why he would pick Carroll after a 3 pick performance. I would think that he'd at least let them split time against SELA and then make a decision after that game before Auburn week.
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