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...
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We had curfew duty together in Green Bay. He's not going to play tricks. He knows my philosophy, and I know his.
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We are a football team, and we will play as a football team this year. I'm not going to make any predictions, but we go into the season this year feeling like we can play with anybody on our schedule and have a chance to win.
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To play as bad as we did in the first half and only going in (down) 14-0, I felt like if our defense could come back and make plays, we had a chance.
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We are talking about one of the premier teams in the country,
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... We've got guys on our teams whose homes are gone, and everything they've got is gone, ... Most went at least 24 hours before they could even find out if their people were OK. To do what they did this week shows that we've got some great young people on this football team. I have so much respect for them. I don't know if I could have done it.
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We'd go to the local church in that recruit's town or just stand on the street corner and talk to whoever passes by. Background checks may be fine for some, but I don't plan to hire somebody when we can go out and do the same work ourselves. I'd have a hard time anyway trusting anybody other than my coaches.
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We want to close this thing out with these guys this weekend. This is still key. We still have top guys visiting.
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We're still making mistakes and still not finishing in protections. We need to give Mike some time and he'll make plays.
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We are going to run it. We are going to get people in here who can run it. We are going to get protection. We are going to get receivers in here who can catch the football. We are going to run that offense. It is the offense I believe in, and it is an offense that I know works.
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Ultimately, I am responsible for their actions and I take full responsibility. But I want to stress that these are good kids who come from good families, who made a serious mistake in judgment.
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The penalties are always on the same people. It's a lack of discipline. At some point you have to play with pride and play for yourself. I can't put faith in their hearts or courage in their minds.
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The defense did a great job of getting turnovers. The only thing disappointing to me about the defense is at times we were unable to stop the run.
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The defense has to get off the field. They did play hard and were on the field for a long time. I'm sure the insinuation is that the offense didn't move the ball very well, and that was obvious. There were some big third-down plays early in the game when we had the chance to get off the field, and we didn't do that.
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When we step between those white lines, the guys out there on the field are not going to be thinking about Hurricane Katrina or anything else.