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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I have a great deal of respect for people who stay in a program without the benefit of a scholarship and go through the grind every day, just hoping for that one time when they are able to put a uniform on and play in the college game. There are a lot of guys around the country who do that, and you have a great deal more respect for those guys than the guys who play on scholarship.
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The offense has made up a lot of ground this spring. We're better off there than we've been at any time. We've gotten a lot of improvement on the offensive line. We've moved Brian Anderson back to right guard and when (junior college transfer) J.D. Hamilton gets here, we should be solid at offensive tackle.
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I looked out there in the fourth quarter and there wasn't a single player on the field who had ever played in a college football game before. I'm sure they made some mistakes, but overall they performed well.
college nobody
There's nobody around (in college football) like that now,
college decisions economical gives good officials pressure tool
I think for college football, it is probably as good as you could come up with, ... It still gives the officials another tool to make good decisions with and it doesn't put a lot of pressure on our coaches. And it's probably the most economical way as well.
acted
He just acted like it wasn't a factor, ... He didn't let it be a factor.
offensive system
The offensive system is what it is, and it is never going to change,
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.
plays
How much he plays is still in question.
next step
The next step is, you don't play. It's going to end one way or another.
guns improvement
I thought we got better every day defensively. And we made improvement offensively. We had some big guns out most of the spring.
kicked worried
I'm not worried about him. If he was a freshman, maybe. But he's kicked in games.
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He is an intense competitor and he has a knack for making plays, even turning his mistakes into positives. I think he'll get even better as time goes on.
penalties
Sometimes we didn't play smart, and we had penalties. Sometimes we got penalties after the play was over. I have to get that corrected; that's on me.