re: State vs. UVA tonight - a story that the Rant may not know

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Croom gets bashed around unfairly IMO but he did some very good things with the football program and left it in much better shape than he found it.

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1) He lost to Maine. We could have given the week off to the team, Brought in South Panola, played the game and Maine would have been beat.

2) He was Coach during the undisputed worst beginning to end football game of the modern era. 2008 MSU-Auburn.

3) Got absolutely skulldrug his last game against Ole Miss. The team didn’t only not get off the bus, they didn’t get out of bed.

4) The “Winston Churchill say” speech prior to gametime 2007 home opener vs LSU… then get slaughtered on national TV with 6 picks with a QB that shouldn’t have been playing JUCO ball. That game damn near crippled Henig and he probably still can’t lift over 30 lbs.

5) Never came close to recruiting a QB better than 2nd string rest of SEC. Michael Henig looked like an 8th grader. Relf? Please. He couldn’t be dependent on hitting a wide open receiver 10 yards beyond LOS. I’m still astounded with that pass he managed to complete downfield in the 2010 Gator.

6) Managed to recruit 2 stud RBs… couldn’t do a damn thing with either other than ask them to carry the entire offense.

7) “If you can’t see improvement.. your blind” berating of a frustrated fanbase while again winning 3 games.

Croom was an awful coach that found a lot of overlooked players and lost more recruits than he won.