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...
behind coming focus half hard season second work
Now we'll just have to put the first half of the season behind us. We'll work hard and focus on coming back in the second half of the season and play a lot better.
came half second
They came out in the second half and shoved it down our throats.
halfway increases pass run rush speed
It really increases our speed in the pass rush and still allows us to play the run halfway decent.
bad defense felt half
To play as bad as we did in the first half and only going in (down) 14-0, I felt like if our defense could come back and make plays, we had a chance.
anyone bryant coach couple goes life men single visa
What's that Visa commercial? Priceless. Every single day, Coach Bryant and my dad, I think about them a couple of times a day because they are the two men that impacted my life more than anyone else and there isn't a day that goes by when I don't think about them.
grown guys understand
We understand our schemes. We've been in it for two years now, and the young guys have grown up in our system.
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.
punch
There's not a day where he just comes out to punch a clock.
college nobody
There's nobody around (in college football) like that now,
business normal
There's nothing normal about this situation, so it's not going to be business as usual,
college decisions economical gives good officials pressure tool
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.
duty green knows together
We had curfew duty together in Green Bay. He's not going to play tricks. He knows my philosophy, and I know his.
came defense plus red side
We came out on the plus side on all of them, ... The defense did give up the touchdown in the red zone, and that's something we'll have to correct.
defense effort great loose plays sloppy
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.