Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Well then...

Thank god we were able to beat UAB.

I was way to disappointed to post anything after the Tulane loss and subsequent departure of Calvin Wilson (someone tell me how we are going to build depth again?).

I have to be honest here, I'm pretty tired of the Croom show. Great, great man, but I'm just not sure he can get it done. Now, as I type this, I really hope he can and I'm willing to give him a couple more years to try. I just really hope he proves me wrong.

It's really all about expectations in this game. I wrote about that when Croom declared 2006 as the turn-around season. He wrote a check with that statement that I was afraid he couldn't cash...sometimes I hate being right.

Well...1-3, with LSU up next and WVU on deck. I'm not even going to talk about LSU, but if we get out of there alive, after seeing what WVU did at lowly ECU last weekend, you can't count the Dawgs out of that one (hey, I did say I was a fan didn't I?). Not that it's likely, but it would be real fun to find a way to beat the Cousins.

Enough rambling...I'm gone.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Tulane

The Officially Unofficial Mississippi State Athletics Blog had absolutely no random thoughts (at least none we could share) after the Auburn game.

Although we're all tired of being listed here: ESPN's Bottom Ten.

Tulane is not a good football team. They gave up five games worth of yardage to Houston. I'm drawing a proverbial line in the sand this week - if we don't beat Tulane, I'm done with Croom.

Dixon should have a nice game. Croom should run him until he begs to come out - and then he should run him some more. I forsee Rutland and the receiving corps having a nice outing as well. Rutland should have time to throw and the receivers should have time to get open. I haven't been able to say this in probably five years, but I like our offensive matchups against their secondary. Wow...how bad is their secondary anyway?

That's enough bleating for one night.