Sylvester Croom has resigned as head coach of Mississippi State

[RoomService]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3733168

Sylvester Croom has resigned as head coach of Mississippi State on Saturday, a day after Ole Miss humiliated Mississippi State 45-0 at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

The most lopsided Egg Bowl since the Rebels won 48-0 in 1971 and another poor offensive performance by the Bulldogs cast more doubt on the fifth-year coach's future. He signed a contract extension following last year's breakthrough 8-5 performance, but was under pressure after difficulties on offense and special teams cost the Bulldogs this year.

Mississippi State would have been required to pay a multimillion buyout if Croom was fired, but the Bulldogs have had only one winning season since 2000.

Croom went 21-38 overall. He was the first black head football coach in the Southeastern Conference.

Since 1996, 12 black coaches have been hired for 199 jobs. With Croom's resignation and the recent dismissals of Ty Willingham at Washington and Ron Prince at Kansas State, the only black head coaches set to finish the season are Miami's Randy Shannon, Buffalo's Turner Gill and Houston's Kevin Sumlin.

 

[Brother Blues]

This saddens me....damn,they have their best season in years,last season...and out???...just like that?????

 

[DolphinBoy]

Lets face it. He was coaching in the SEC. There was no way in hell he was ever going to make that program a winner. He wasn't going to ever be able to get the kind of talent that UGA, LSU and Florida had. The players on that sqaud fucking suck. He had a few decent ones (Pegues, their RB, and a few others) but overall that team was horrible. Especially that fucking Quarterback.
He was destined to fail at that school.
Black coaches need to pick the right jobs and not just take any job that comes to them.

The only black coaches right now who are actually doing shit right now are Sumlin and Gill. Shannon's boys are going to be alot better next year but they really need to fucking fire their OC Patrick Nix. They have too much talent on that offense for Robert Marve to only throw 10-15 times a game.

 

[flounder]

Damn, I hate to see him leave. Unfortunately, his players were not Division 1-A caliber. There was no way he was ever going to compete in the SEC. Hell, the players couldn't compete against the likes of Grambling or Jackson State.

He could not regruit the sucessfully against the Tide, Auburn, etc. Plus, I think he saw the 'proverbial' hand-writing on the wall.

In this age of what have you done for me lately , it was time and smart to leave before he was asked---live to fight another day (so to speak).

 

[tp2001]

I was shocked the day that I heard that he was the coach of Mississippi State, but I agree with many of you when he was at the wrong spot from the jump. The state of Mississippi has not been a good place for many recruits to come to...Other than Eli Manning, I haven't heard of a notable recruit for either school since.

As far as the overall state of black coaches go, it's not a good look. Many of the coaches that have been in major schools have rarely stayed one term (which is five years). Gill has been doing a good job in Buffalo, but we'll see if he gets a shot at a bigger school down the road.

Another gripe that has hit the college football scene are these "coaches in waiting" bits in some spots. I'm not just talking talking about what's happening at Texas and FSU, but the Tennessee thing hiring Kiffin almost two days after the season's over...That's kind of quick if you ask me...