Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
Please show me where I gave him 'love' in that post. I simply said that Croom is not the least qualified candidate for an SEC HC job, and he's probably not one of the 10-15 least qualified candidates. That is a fact.

So if the question is, how was Croom an SEC HC candidate, it seems you're really just saying, I think there have been a lot of SEC HC candidates and HCs who shouldn't have been considered.

That's fine as an opinion, but singling out Croom as somehow less qualified than pretty much everyone else is weird.

Part of it is that it was a different time. It's unlikely a guy with that resume would get a look now. But go back and look at the 90s; it wasn't overly unusual then. I've admitted multiple times that I was wrong on Croom and that with clearer eyes in hindsight, it's unlikely he ever would have produced a consistent winner. But it wasn't crazy that he was a candidate at the time.
He coach 17 years in the NFL and got a chance as a OC and failed big time. Barry Sanders didn't need Sly to be great. He really didn't want to be at MSU. he had absolutely no clue what recruiting was about. He tried to cram a West Coast offense down our throats but he failed to recruit the Players to make it work. the stupidest shit to ever come out of His mouth(and there were plenty to chose from) was he knew we were going to lose to Maine they were the better team. He should have fired the minute that came out of his mouth.