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Sylvester Croom has resigned

Tider@UNA said:
Whew! That's a tough call, I've lived near or very near Starkville all my life and every MSU fan I know hates us much more than Ole Miss. If MSU beats Ole Miss no one outside the south really cares, but if they beat Bama it usually (besides the last 10 years) has had national implications. They hate the amount of tradition and success we've experience a mere 90 miles away and they aren't afraid to show it...
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Wow! I always assumed that this was something that Croom had built there. I had no idea that they have felt this way for so long...
 
BigAL413 said:
From a pressure standpoint, Boise St. is a better job. But, if Peterson ever wants to contend for a National Championship he is going to have to come to the SEC or another BCS Conference. Undefeated at Boise St. means nothing.

Mississippi St. has more advantages as well. The state of Mississippi offers far more talent to recruit and if Sly can recruit them, Peterson should be able to keep more of the in-state talent from leaving.

I don't think Peterson will leave Boise for Starkville, but any BCS opening is head and shoulders a better job than Boise St.
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I understand what you are saying but Boise St. has played (and won) a BCS game and has a chance to play in one again this year. Miss St. has never played in one. Boise St. doesn't have to face the tough row that Miss St. does every year which gives the coach a better chance to have a good season every year. So what is it that makes Miss St a better option?
 
bayoutider said:
Mississippi St. is our oldest rival we have played them more times than any other SEC team.
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can you call it a rivalry, I mean until recently, Alabama had beaten MSU more than any team in cfb has beaten an opponent with 70 or more games played. now, I think its the 2nd or 3rd most lopsided series
 
I haven't read all the posts in this thread but I'll say this. Croom was up for two jobs where he was destined to fail. He could have gotten the Alabama job where he would have failed due to NCAA sanctions or the job he received at MSU where he was destined to fail due to the program in general.

I hope he gets a smaller profile job where he succeeds.
 
He deserves better. Fact is ,qb play doomed him. He is a good man and we shoud not pile on him right now. Fact is, we were too scared to hire him. We need to tip our hat to him. If anyone ever made chicken salad out of chicken crap at the qb position, he did.
 
Tider@UNA said:
Whew! That's a tough call, I've lived near or very near Starkville all my life and every MSU fan I know hates us much more than Ole Miss. If MSU beats Ole Miss no one outside the south really cares, but if they beat Bama it usually (besides the last 10 years) has had national implications. They hate the amount of tradition and success we've experience a mere 90 miles away and they aren't afraid to show it.

I was born to hate Auburn, but I choose to hate Tennessee.

The same can be said about MSU. They want us to be their rival, we just don't care.
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This is true, and a lot of folks don't realize it. I lived in Columbus four different times totaling about 18 years, and MSU is absolutely disgusted at Alabama and - believe it or not - would rather beat us than Ole Miss. That is the honest-to-God truth, and it was there LONG before Sly Croom was.

It seems to have its roots back when they had beaten us a couple of times in the 1950s and then a guy named Bear showed up. They beat him ONCE - and that game is still the biggest win in the entire history of MSU, the 6-3 upset in 1980.

What was funny is that I lived there then and overnight they became the most outspoken and obnoxious fans I've ever encountered. When I went to games at Ole Miss, the fans were self-deprecating and while they were emotional, they at least had some semblance of class. I went to the 1998 MSU-Bama game and heard more profanities in one quarter than my father (a retired miiltary veteran of the Vietnam War) introduced to me.

They REALLY got jaded (and entitled) when they beat us four out of five times from 1996-2000.

The problem is that we consider them little more than an irritant. If we beat them - so what? We've beaten them more (I think) than we've beaten any other team, and it is one of the most one-sided 'rivalries' (what a bad word for it) in all of sports.

But don't be misled - they HATE us. They cannot figure out how it is that the state of Alabama, which they view as nothing more than MS East, can churn out SEC and national champs on a consistent basis nor can they figure out why a 6-win Alabama team will always get a better bowl game than an 8-win Bulldog team.

I think they also hate us because Emory Bellard developed the wishbone and he later coached at MSU - but Bear Bryant did more with it than anyone.
 
gigama said:
He deserves better. Fact is ,qb play doomed him. He is a good man and we shoud not pile on him right now. Fact is, we were too scared to hire him. We need to tip our hat to him. If anyone ever made chicken salad out of chicken crap at the qb position, he did.
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5 years is long enough to recruit a decent QB, he lost 8 games 4 of the 5, that will not get you a gold watch at retirement!
 
MegaVars said:
And not at Bama, I might add. He may be a good coach, but he`s going to run that option regardless. A mediocre, at best, Georgia defense , doesn`t seem to be having much trouble with it.
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come again?
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joke of the night:

Peterson to msu. That's good stuff. :biggrin:

Sherrill proved that the way to win at msu is to cheat. Yeah, they have a lot of instate talent, but it's a small state, population-wise, with three in-state D-1 schools and 5 neighboring states competing for it. Plus, it's Starkville.....

Yeah, dream job for the likes of Patterson or Peterson.
 
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