Tulane 32 - MState 29
Wow, what can I say about this game? It sucked? No, not harsh enough. It was embarassing? No, that still doesn't accurately describe it. It was an abomination to SEC football, that's what it was. I was literally ashamed of the maroon shirt and cap I wore Saturday night. That was the worst performance I have ever seen from State without a doubt. That Tulane team was bad. If you didn't see them in person let me break it down for you - their defense was bad, their offense was bad, and their special teams bad ours look all-world by comparison.
In this game we had every advantage. We were at home, they had no fans show up, and let's not forget he effects of Hurricane Katrina. Then we get to the first half where we had field position the entire half. We had the ball at, just short, or beyond the 50 yard line the whole half, yet mustered only 7 points. Tulane cornerbacks were 10 yards off our receivers all night yet we still tried to go deep on them. Our staff was either too stupid to run 5 and outs on them on first and second down or just too damn stubborn to do it Croom's way - that entails running with power (ha!), using mid to deep passing routes, and completely ignoring the TE and RBs out of the backfield. We ran 5 and outs on 3rd and long and it worked, only it netted 5-6 yards and left us short of the sticks.
The worst part about this game was how flat the team came out. There is a pattern here you know - we came out just as flat last year against Houston and Kentucky, both very winnable games. The year before it was Maine, UAB, and Vandy. This year it's Tulane so far, hopefully Jacksonville State will not be added to this list, although it would not surprise me. With all the flack Croom caught last week and the controversial blast at the fans, I am still a little shocked at the mood of the team. Geez, at least Jackie could circle the wagons and get his team ready to play teh weaker teams on the sched. Croom has no clue what he is doing, none. He has no clue how to motivate the team. He said as much in his press conference. He said it is a total mystery to him why we came out that flat. He said he told the players they have to fight for it. Earth to Croom: this isn't the 1970's. You cannot just tell these players they have to fight for it, you have to motivate them to win. You have to find something to get them into the game. That is part of your job as a coach. Tons of other coaches do it every weekend around the nation. Unfortunately you cannot.
Croom has no clue what he is doing people. He is a good man and wants to win, but he doesn't understand what it takes. That should be obvious to all. He got severely outcoached by Tulane's staff. He is in way over his head. I told somebody at the game this and I will now repeat it - that man will get fired before he will change anything. That is just stupid. Saying you will never fire a coach is stupid, saying you won't change the offense or how you call it is stupid, and blaming anyone other than the staff for this crap is stupid. Croom needs to resign. I would if for nothing else out of shame.
About the 4th quarter points, as far as I'm concerned they don't count. Tulane's 119th ranked defense let up in the fourth and that's when we started scoring. That's the only reason we started scoring. When it really counted and Tulane truly cared the score was 32-7. That's pathetic. Conner is not the answer, we learned that last year. Croom's "offense" will not get it done. This team has a chance at one more game this season - Jax State. Beyond that, we aren't going to come close to winning a game. This team will either be JState and 11 or winless. I'm as loyal as you'll find, I love MState, I give to the BC and have season tickets and I show up to the games and stay the whole time the vast majority of the time. I'll say this right now - if Croom is still coaching us next year, I'm not buying tickets. I'm not paying my hard earned money to watch that crap another year. I sat through the entire 2003 season and was never this mad or felt this helpless concerning our program. We haven't been this bad in a long, long time.
PS: To those cheering at the game when they called out the OM score, we were getting skull drug by Tulane 32-7 at the time. Does OM losing make you happy? Does the fact that they were at least competitive against SEC competition on the road make you happy? It does not me. It doesn't change the outcome of our game, it doesn't make MState better if OM loses, and it doesn't erase my anger at our team's performance. OM is going to take the Golden Egg home this year. They are bad, but they are not nearly as bad as us.
In this game we had every advantage. We were at home, they had no fans show up, and let's not forget he effects of Hurricane Katrina. Then we get to the first half where we had field position the entire half. We had the ball at, just short, or beyond the 50 yard line the whole half, yet mustered only 7 points. Tulane cornerbacks were 10 yards off our receivers all night yet we still tried to go deep on them. Our staff was either too stupid to run 5 and outs on them on first and second down or just too damn stubborn to do it Croom's way - that entails running with power (ha!), using mid to deep passing routes, and completely ignoring the TE and RBs out of the backfield. We ran 5 and outs on 3rd and long and it worked, only it netted 5-6 yards and left us short of the sticks.
The worst part about this game was how flat the team came out. There is a pattern here you know - we came out just as flat last year against Houston and Kentucky, both very winnable games. The year before it was Maine, UAB, and Vandy. This year it's Tulane so far, hopefully Jacksonville State will not be added to this list, although it would not surprise me. With all the flack Croom caught last week and the controversial blast at the fans, I am still a little shocked at the mood of the team. Geez, at least Jackie could circle the wagons and get his team ready to play teh weaker teams on the sched. Croom has no clue what he is doing, none. He has no clue how to motivate the team. He said as much in his press conference. He said it is a total mystery to him why we came out that flat. He said he told the players they have to fight for it. Earth to Croom: this isn't the 1970's. You cannot just tell these players they have to fight for it, you have to motivate them to win. You have to find something to get them into the game. That is part of your job as a coach. Tons of other coaches do it every weekend around the nation. Unfortunately you cannot.
Croom has no clue what he is doing people. He is a good man and wants to win, but he doesn't understand what it takes. That should be obvious to all. He got severely outcoached by Tulane's staff. He is in way over his head. I told somebody at the game this and I will now repeat it - that man will get fired before he will change anything. That is just stupid. Saying you will never fire a coach is stupid, saying you won't change the offense or how you call it is stupid, and blaming anyone other than the staff for this crap is stupid. Croom needs to resign. I would if for nothing else out of shame.
About the 4th quarter points, as far as I'm concerned they don't count. Tulane's 119th ranked defense let up in the fourth and that's when we started scoring. That's the only reason we started scoring. When it really counted and Tulane truly cared the score was 32-7. That's pathetic. Conner is not the answer, we learned that last year. Croom's "offense" will not get it done. This team has a chance at one more game this season - Jax State. Beyond that, we aren't going to come close to winning a game. This team will either be JState and 11 or winless. I'm as loyal as you'll find, I love MState, I give to the BC and have season tickets and I show up to the games and stay the whole time the vast majority of the time. I'll say this right now - if Croom is still coaching us next year, I'm not buying tickets. I'm not paying my hard earned money to watch that crap another year. I sat through the entire 2003 season and was never this mad or felt this helpless concerning our program. We haven't been this bad in a long, long time.
PS: To those cheering at the game when they called out the OM score, we were getting skull drug by Tulane 32-7 at the time. Does OM losing make you happy? Does the fact that they were at least competitive against SEC competition on the road make you happy? It does not me. It doesn't change the outcome of our game, it doesn't make MState better if OM loses, and it doesn't erase my anger at our team's performance. OM is going to take the Golden Egg home this year. They are bad, but they are not nearly as bad as us.
posted by Stormrider81 at 6:42 AM
6 Comments:
Man you are something else you know, Croom knows what he is doing, that is why he is the caoch and you are the armchair quarterback sitting there posting your little blog thingy. we almost beat tulane, if there would have been 2 or 5 more minutes in the game we would have won easily. omar coner should have been the quarterback all year, croom just wanted to be sure about hening and rutland before he put omar back in there. we will beat uab, you watch. i have faith in coach croom and you will be eating your words come this weekend!!1
The only thing I will be eating this weekend are hamburgers and hotdogs on Saturday while watching real football on TV thanks to there being no game in Vegas. As far as Omarr, yawn, the guy proved last year he isn't the QB for Croom's Gulf Coast Offense. He was successful for 2 reasons: Tulane's defense let up in the 4th quarter and Croom opened up the offense. Next game Conner will be right back under center dropping back in the pocket to pass and we will be right back to square one. How about Conner's performance in the 3rd quarter? How about last year when he lost his job to Henig? It took the 119th ranked defense playing reserves and playing not to lose with a 25 point 4th quarter lead for us to score our second offensive touchdown of the season. We didn't almost beat Tulane, when the actual game was going on it was 32-7.
Finally, I don't have to be an expert to recognize our problems. I'm not a chef but I know when my steak isn't cooked right, and I'm not a mechanic but I know when my truck isn't running right. I don't have to be a coach to know this team sucks and the coaching is pathetic. It was painfully obvious to everyone around me at the game also. I've never heard that level of booing directed towards a coach before nor this level of negativity about the program. We are headed for a 1-11 or 0-12 finish.
yeah i heard all that boing going on at the end of the game, you people should be a shame of yourselfs. Coach croom is working his butt off all the time and the players are working hard but what do they get from the fans???/ i have never boed any mississippi state team and i never will. to answer your questions, omar had to shake off the rust in the 3rd quarter, how would you play if you were thrown in like that all of a sudden?? once he got warmed up he started kicking some butt. oh yeah and he lost his job to hening because hening is a better QB than him and we needed him at receiver!!! somebody with a blog dedicated to bashing our dogs should know that by now. hening would have beat south car. and tulane had he been in there, but he's hurt and omar is the best we have right now. with a full week of practice and a chip on our sholder we will handle uab!!!!11
First of all, these coaches do not even deserve the fan support they are getting. MState has the most loyal fans in the entire country. Who else would sell so many tickets and get so much money from their fans after 5 consecutive seasons of 3 wins or less? Answer that. I didn't boo the players, I booed the coaches, they are the ones at fault here.
About Henig, you say he would have beaten South Carolina. BS. He was in the whole first half and did nothing against them. He never moved his team across the 50 yard line. The offense looked slightly better with Rutland in there. Conner did nothing against Tulane's defense until the score was 32-7 and they let up. If you cannot see that you are blind. Conner got his shot last year and he couldn't run this offense. In his defense, there are no QBs I can think of that could run Croom's Gulf Coast Offense.
I don't hate on Conner, it ain't his fault. He didn't spend 3 seasons trying to make himself a drop back passer when it is obvious to all he would do better out of the shotgun and allowed to run around more. Part of him doing good in the 4th was Tulane letting up and another part was the coaching staff not restricting him as much. This week agaisnt UAB it will be back to business as usual with Conner right back under center running Croom's offense and we will continue to struggle.
Piece of advice, don't put too much stock into that 4th quarter performance, you are only setting yourself up for a rude awakening this weekend. It took the 119th ranked defense letting up in the 4th for us to finally reach that second offensive touchdown.
About my blog, it is not dedicated to bashing State. Did you read the top? This is a no spin zone. I don't pump sunshine, that is Gene Swindoll's job. I call it like I see it. If we suck I will say so. I really want MState to be good, really really bad. I'm sick and tired of losing and being a laughingstock. The only thing I look forward to this year are the possible departures of Templeton Croom and the men's basketball team, and that is the sad state of affairs our athletic department has become.
PS: I'm glad you've never booed at a game. Give your cowbell a highfive and find your way back to Gene's Page. It's the attitudes of people like you that holds our athletic department back. Ya'll are ok with losing, ok with being a laughing stock, ok with Templeton, Croom, and Polk shoveling excuses down your throats, and ok with lack of on the field results. Do you care about winning at all?
so i set my self up for a rude awakening huh?? i had faith in my dogs and i knew they could do it. i saw the good that came out of omar making a come back on tulane and knew the team would take that mometnum and run with it. but i don't want to say i told you so. and to answer your last question yes i care about winning you are the one who seems to take pleasure in us loosing.
I take zero pleasure in us losing. I would rather we won every single game.
As far as this victory goes, props to Omarr for overcoming the poor coaching and playcalling. But, the offense still only mustered 240 yards on UAB's crappy unit. We scored 10 points in regulation. Don't get ahead of yourself just yet. This means we will be 2-10 rather than 1-11.
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