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...
downright good last
We were horrible. It was downright awful. I don't know how good we are, but we're a whole lot better than we were last year.
benefit college country deal great grind guys hoping people program respect stay time uniform
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.
guys starting
All of our receivers are starting to look like the guys that you want.
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).
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The most impressive thing about our team right now is that we understand our schemes. We've been in it two years now, and the younger guys have grown up in our systems, and they understand what we're doing from a technique standpoint on offense, defense and in the kicking game. One big emphasis of the spring was that we really wanted to pay attention to details and do the little things right. We continued to work on being physically and mentally tough and on being a team that finishes plays and plays physical football. I think you saw that out there today.
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.
competitor goes intense knack mistakes time turning
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.