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.
close guys top
We want to close this thing out with these guys this weekend. This is still key. We still have top guys visiting.
calm crowd deer gate high matter remember run school starts talk
Let me tell you something. That first game, they're going to be like a deer (in headlights), no matter what you do or how you calm them down. I remember the same way myself when I played. You can talk about it all you want to, but when you run out of that gate and that crowd starts yelling, it ain't high school any more, It's a whole different deal.
calamity crucial good poised special teams
Special teams have been good all the time. We just had a calamity in one game. Like anything else, we just need to be poised in crucial situations.
extra gets line ran
It's the same thing as if we ran a toss-sweep. Then you line up on first down and 'let's go.' That's the way I look at it. (Norwood) gets an extra down.
enjoys ethic fun practice work
His work ethic is tremendous, ... He comes to practice every day to compete. He enjoys it. He has fun at what he's doing. And as a coach, you really like to see that in a player.
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.