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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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.
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I'll never be satisfied, but I like this team a whole lot better at this point than I did at this time last year. I know this team is willing to pay the price to be successful. I know that this team is in good shape. I know that they are physically tough, and that they will hit people. They have a will to win.
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I thought we got better every day defensively. And we made improvement offensively. We had some big guns out most of the spring.
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I think everything was done properly. I see no reason why we can't move forward from here.
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Our primary objective was to get some wide receivers in here and get some depth at running back, and we did that.
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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.
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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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We've got to develop some mental toughness. It's why we don't have back-to-back good practices and why we can't win two games in a row. Right now, we're just not mentally tough enough. I'm disappointed because after a good day, we'll have a lackadaisical practice.
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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.
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We thought (Johnson) was an outstanding player in last year's class. He will be a great asset to us in the secondary.
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We've come a long way, ... Our record doesn't indicate it, and it's probably not satisfying to a lot of people, but it's going to take a while.
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We were sloppy today. We got another great effort out of our defense. They're making plays and getting turnovers. Loose balls, tipped balls, they're making plays.
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Today was disappointing. We wanted to see how (the players) would focus, and we came out here with no concentration.
Yeah, we're making plays. Our receivers are better.