Sylvester Croom
Sylvester Croom
Sylvester Croom, Jr.is an American football coach. He is currently the running backs coach for the NFL's Tennessee Titans. He was the head coach at Mississippi State University from 2004 to 2008, and the first African American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference. His father, Sylvester Croom, Sr., was himself an All-American football player at Alabama A&M, later the team chaplain at the University of Alabama, and has been recognized by that school as one of the state's 40...
campus football remain report suspension team
They will remain suspended from the football team through the remainder of this semester. When they report back to campus this summer, the suspension will be lifted.
georgia might players sign state tech
They've got so many players in the state of Georgia that Georgia and Georgia Tech can't sign them all. They might as well let us have some.
catch good schemes
They've got good schemes and they're well-coached and they play hard. But some of those little things may catch up with them at some point.
avoid coming diffuse happen incident quickly situations took
These things happen, but you can see them coming before they occur. You can avoid these situations or diffuse them as quickly as possible. That's what did not happen and why the incident took place.
guys semester senior
I want to see how they do first semester of their senior year. That is huge. We've had guys we really liked, but then we find out mid-semester there's no way they're going to (qualify).
deal fear hungry people plays
I want him to make people afraid. I want to put fear into them. If he's hungry and plays with some attitude, ain't too many people who are going to deal with him. ...
came half second
They came out in the second half and shoved it down our throats.
attitude chance change difficult football last order signifies time year
They were already out there throwing. This time last year it was difficult to get (players) to do that. It signifies a change in attitude and realization that a lot has to be done on their own in order for us to have a chance to be a championship football team.
ads game keeps newspapers people players sells stuff tv
The game is not about me, ... It's about the players in the game. It's about the game. All this other stuff sells newspapers and sells ads on TV and keeps people interested, but it all comes down to the game.
athletics
The guy's a student-athlete. He was being a student.
dad early education hammered question school value
The idea of not going to school in my house? My dad would spank you raw. We had the value of education hammered into us at an early age. There was never any question we were going to college.
guys starting
All of our receivers are starting to look like the guys that you want.
almost changed conference happen losing period tough
And it's going to be tough to do because he went almost 11 years without losing a conference game. That's not going to happen now. The times have changed and I think it was probably a period that will never be duplicated in this conference again.
legal players system
The legal system has worked, and our players have been penalized by the court.