re: Croom's decision before the half....

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He learned from that mistake and when you fire his butt and hire someone who has you at 2 wins a season again you'll wish you had him.

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Last year is irrelevant to last night's game. Last year, Henig had already thrown 3 picks. This year the offense had just scored the prior possesion and we easily moved to the 40. Are you telling me Miles or Tubbs, given the same situation would've sat on the ball. Hell no. Miles and Tubbs are where they at because they have a feel for what their team is doing at any particular point in the game. Croom coaches every tight ball game like he's got a 21 point lead.

As far firing him, this is year 5. State fans have been more than patient - more patient than any other SEC save Vanderbilt (that should tell you something right there). What I find irritating as hell is the notion that because of our lack of football tradition we should put up with incompetency more than any other school.

Yes, Croom cleaned up the program, but he also did things that prelonged the misery -- installing a complicated, pro-style offense, running off potential depth because some players were older and not at the top of the depth chart, not recruiting a single decent QB, and making some of the stupidest game decisions I've ever witnessed.