I'll say this about Croom. Dude could get a team fired up coming out of the locker room. One of best in game with Bama in 07.
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I'll say this about Croom. Dude could get a team fired up coming out of the locker room. One of best in game with Bama in 07.
Yep. I still can't help but laugh at the amount of flat out lies that he tells in it, but water under the bridge.
The most principled man we've ever had as head coach. Will always be proud he was our coach. Forever a Dawg.
Roll Tide!**Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
2007 was a good season even though our fans like to run it down because the defense and special teams made some huge plays.Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
He is the second worst coach in modern day MSU football history, and badmouthed our university on the way out. He can 17 himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
I don't like the way he badmouthed MSU on the special about him either. He really hurt himself doing that. Croom seemed to be a good guy but he took the low road at the end.
**** Crooms
One of the biggest myths in MSU history.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
Merry Christmas, tho.
Yep, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jarius
haha-no. Forever a Bammer. His principles were a complete myth. And he treated Jackie- another Bammer- like shit when Jackie tried to help him when the transition was happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
aGAIN I say- **** Crooms
He said Maine was the better team.. went to sleep on a recruit couch. Ruined Omarr. Said you could recruit a WR on any street corner in Miami but never did.His offense was one of the worst in MSU history. Punted from the other teAms 35. I could keep this up for days.
Joe Moorhead says hello
Never hire a Coach that his alma mater preferred Mike Shula at the time. That says it all. He was not and will never be a Dawg. Even down to those Russell Athletic uniforms that he wanted us to look like his precious bama 2.0. Don't forget his "Well, I didn't see that coming", 48-0 loss to OM when he nearly got every QB we had killed. Add in the gunfight on campus. The list goes on.
Yeah. It's impressive to go 2-0 in the Egg Bowl and get fired at MSUQuote:
Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG
Thanks. But I like the view from the validated high road.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
Ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
What I would pay to have seen Dixon play 4 years under Mullen instead of with Croom
Yep, but Dixion only wasted one year. How bout Norwood?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Omar Conner would have been awesome under Mullen.
I've sometimes wondered what 2007 would have looked like had Jackie redshirted him instead of playing him a couple of games during a 2-10 season.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
Absolutely not.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
Compare the number of arrests under a room to the other recent coaches. Dude also never took the blame for anything wrong with the team, and he refused to cut out his friend McCorvey despite never fielding a top 100 offense in five years of trying WHEN THERE WERE ONLY 120 FBS TEAMS!
Ask Joey Sanders and Demario Bobo how "principled" he was lol. Total bullshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
Same with 2006 had he redshirted NorwoodQuote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
McCorvey begged Croom to let him change the offense but he wouldn’t do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BulldogDX55
I didn't know that detail - the only bit I knew was that Byrne offered Croom one more year if he'd fire McCorvey and assumed the rest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schultzy
That makes Croom look worse. No one likes a boss who won't listen to their underlings regarding anything especially when the results are terrible.
AgreedQuote:
Originally Posted by BulldogDX55
Crooms told Bob Davie he would retire before running a spread offense and Davie told the world during a TV broadcast.
Byrne told Crooms he had to fire Woody and hire a Spread OC. Crooms said no.
Byrne did what he had to do. When you refuse to change what is clearly not working- you are not a very good coach
Croom never wanted the State job and it showed over and over again. He was probably looking for a way out and found one. We all know why they were determined to hire him.
Yep. If your coach looks down on your program it's not a good sign.Quote:
Originally Posted by was21
Thanks LT
Didn't he insist that Croom was the right hire in the documentary? LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeshouldveflanked
Thank God Zacharias hired Jackie and not LT.
Good season yes. But the offense was 100% Croom and 100% terrible, outside of Dixon.
The Croom revisionist history is really one of the most confusing things to me about our fanbase.
We lost to MAINE.
End of discussion.
A lot of mismatching going on between the man that he is and the coach that he was.
He isn’t any better of a man than any other football coach we’ve had. The rest of the ones we have fired have generally not been too shitty of a human being to badmouth us after they left. Croom, after stealing millions of dollars from Mississippi State, had the audacity to talk bad about us after we had to watch the bullshit football he orchestrated for 5 years. This character schtick that people cling to is simply ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
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Originally Posted by EdwardDrayton
The only thing close to being as bad as the Croom hire are the Maroon is all that Matters T-shirt?s ..
yes, and an honorable mention ribbon to "Vroom Maroon"Quote:
Originally Posted by Ari Gold
There's a reason croom never got another head coaching job. He sucked.