07 Egg Bowl starting on SECN now

[Duke Humphrey]

Nm

 

[57stratdawg]

That the “So much Character” game?

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

The West Croom Offense still looks like a series of Three Stooges skits

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

One of my favorite EBs.

 

[Mayor of Little London]

My goodness those are UGLY uniforms!

 

[BossDawg78]

Wesley Carroll for Heisman!!

He was poised to lead our team to a division championship the next year......my God it's incredible what many of us wanted to believe that year.

 

[hailstate19]

My goodness those are UGLY uniforms!

What team? Both are pretty bad lol

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Carroll would have flourished in the Mullen Offense....

 

[hailstate19]

That 2007 season was fun to watch because we had been so terrible for so long before then. Just making a bowl game felt special in those days. That defense was really nasty. One of my favorite egg bowls as well.

 

[57stratdawg]

I dunno man. Carroll-Power on 3rd and 3 seems like a bad idea.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Michael Henig with a cool 1/9 TD/INT ratio.

 

[GTAdawg]

What a fun year, beating both Auburn and Alabama. Funny thing, I remember going to Talladega the next Spring and I constantly let those Bammers know that we were the “Alabama state champs”.

 

[BossDawg78]

That defense was really nasty. One of my favorite egg bowls as well.

Ellis Johnson carried that entire team on his back.

 

[Sienfield]

Ellis Johnson carried that entire team on his back.

He did for sure. Money was given for raises at the end of the year and Croom gave McCormey and Johnson the same amount of raise which was one of the reasons Johnson left. Without Ellis Johnson in 2008 we saw what happened.

 

[MedDawg]

But they spoke well of him in the Bobby Bowden Camp...

Michael Henig with a cool 1/9 TD/INT ratio.

I believe he won the long throw competition at the Bobby Bowden Camp.

 

[$altyDawg]

Money was given for raises at the end of the year and Croom gave McCormey and Johnson the same amount of raise

No doubt, I would have left as well. Johnson had assembled a great defense and McCorvey couldn't score much over 10 points a game to cover it. Johnson then goes to SC to coach for Spurrier and things worked out well for him until he decided to make the move to head coach...That, by the way, did NOT work out so well...

 

[$altyDawg]

But they spoke well of him in the Bobby Bowden Camp...

Did they say he could "spin it"? **

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

The West Croom Offense still looks like a series of Three Stooges skits

I think about those days when I hear the bitching about our program now.

I also remember how bad Bama was then and have hope for the future of post-Saban Bama. How in the 17 did we win enough games to go to a bowl.

 

[Goat Holding Inc]

The worst part of the Croom Error was the whole joke of it all.

Croom was a joke himself. He was never head coach material. We all know why he was in that position, but couldn't they have picked someone who actually COULD coach?

The uniforms were a joke. Ugliest crap I've ever seen in my life. Worst in the FBS.

Our social experiment at the expense of winning was a joke. Again, it could have been great, had they actually gotten a GOOD coach who was also black. Why not Charlie Strong???? This was nothing but Templeton trying to slobber on the Bammer/SEC schlong.

Opposing fans/coaches/media treated us like a joke. Remember Tuberville's statement "I'm sure he's got a 10-year plan in place". You know he was laughing his *** off when the camera stopped rolling.

Larry Templeton shares in this blame, he facilitated the whole thing. I knew when Jackie resigned, that we were going to hire Croom. I don't really even blame Jackie anymore, and truth be known, the earth wasn't THAT damn scorched when he left. Any decent coach could have won 6 games in 2004.

 

[Goat Holding Inc]

He did for sure. Money was given for raises at the end of the year and Croom gave McCormey and Johnson the same amount of raise which was one of the reasons Johnson left. Without Ellis Johnson in 2008 we saw what happened.

That's also when Croominator's "disciplinarian" image broke down

 

[Goat Holding Inc]

What a fun year, beating both Auburn and Alabama. Funny thing, I remember going to Talladega the next Spring and I constantly let those Bammers know that we were the “Alabama state champs”.

Definitely fun in the moment, but mainly because of what we were comparing against. Certainly did not last.

Same sort of phenomena that made Mullen seem so much better than he really was.

 

[Maroonthirteen]

Was there ever any truth to Jimbo Fisher wanting the job and LT turned him
Down?

 

[coach66]

Deep said Jimbo was a done deal but Larry took the NCAA bait to lessen the

probation hit.

 

[maroonmania]

probation hit.

So basically LT traded off field probation for on field probation. We are MState.

 

[msu71]

Same thing we did with Rick Ray after Stansbury-Sidney debacle. 5 years of lousy basketball. Self-imposed NCAA sanctions.