Mississippi State Sports Blog

The Times Picayune has a well written, long piece on Coach Croom. It’s worth reading, although it’s full of the Mississippi-still-has-a-long-way-to-go things we’ve come to expect from “fer-ners”. I love this quote:
“I’ve heard people say, ‘Well, they’re not his (recruited) players.’ They are my players. Right now. They’re my players, I’m their coach, [...]

Scott Field cleans up pretty nicely.

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Click here for the download. They finally ditched the stupid studio. Coach and Jack are sitting in the M Club looking over the south end zone. Tell someone to wash the windows next week!
PS., that stupid Winn-Dixie commercial is back. That guy needs a beating.

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The Sun Herald | 09/02/2004 | New quarterback has to learn fast
“It feels so good, that taking your reads, knowing who’s hot and who’s not, who the play was designed for and knowing if they’re covered, you’ve got another man to look at,” he said. “It’s not just taking the ball down and running with [...]

That’s what Tulane coaches hope Sylvester Croom doesn’t try to do. Tulane is woefully outmatched size-wise along the defensive front and thin depth-wise, mainly because of the departure of starting defensive lineman Bamm Mateen. One thing, however, we should keep in mind, last year we outweighed the Wave by even more, yet that [...]

Here’s your one-stop-shop for all your internet gameday needs: Sixpackspeak.com’s Gameday.

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Marvin Birdsong and Brad Horton have flip-flopped middle and weakside linebacker positions. The C-L reports in a story about starting weakside LB Rico Bennett, that Birdsong is having trouble stuffing the middle and works better in space. “Works better in space” is a code phrase for “can’t shed blockers.” I find it [...]

BulldogBlitz.com has a recap of Coach Croom’s Tuesday press conference. Here’s his assessment of the team:
“We are a work in progress and that is why we take it one day at a time, one week at a time and one game at a time. We’re making progress every day. Sometimes at this level I’m [...]

Highly touted quarterback, Lester Ricard, makes his debut against State. He’s following a long line of successful Tulane quarterbacks - the past 3 Green Wave starters have been first-day NFL draftees, beginning with Shaun King, Patrick Ramsey and last year’s starter, J.P. Losman.
It will be interesting to see him and Conner - [...]