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Croom To Have Knee Procedure Friday
By David Murray
Date: Apr 14, 2005

With spring camp completed, Mississippi State’s coaching and training staffs can breathe a sigh of collective relief. Their Bulldogs got through the 2005 session with only a couple of new injuries and none that threaten August availability. Still this is a time of the football year when any ing repair work can be done, and one particular Dog will be in the body shop tomorrow.

The big Dog, that is. Coach Sylvester Croom is scheduled to have a knee procedure performed Friday morning in Columbus, to take care of an old condition. Naturally most of the details are private, and at the coach’s insistence Mississippi State is not making a fuss about what should be a reasonably routine operation involving repair and partial replacement of a joint that has become increasingly creaky. A post-procedure bulletin might be released if the coach approves, a MSU official said.
Croom did hint at the situation when discussing his appearance on ESPN2’s live broadcast of the Maroon-White Game this past Saturday. The head Dog enjoyed providing commentary with the network broadcast crew, except for the fact that he and his cohorts stood for the entire afternoon telecast. “That wasn’t great on my knees,” he grimmaced.

The state of Croom’s knees has been well-known ever since he arrived in Starkville. The former star offensive linemen at Alabama and one-year professional center paid the same price as many who play a brutal blocking position at some point. And playing-days ailments were inevitably aggravated by years pacing college and NFL sidelines, particularly the ‘fuzzy concrete’ of most artificial surfaced-stadiums.

Croom does frequently make light of his lineman’s legs, and the fact that he spends portions of every Bulldog practice, such as the warm-ups and some specialty segments, patrolling the fields in a golf cart sponsored by the Greater Jackson Bulldog Boosters. The ‘Croommobile’ is a nice ride and keeps the coach’s legs as fresh as possible for daily drills, but now he has carved out post-spring time for a more permanent solution.

Hopefully the result is that come September, when the Bulldogs charge onto Scott Field for the season-opener, they will have to hustle to keep up with a head coach who has a new spring in his own step.

"The ‘Croommobile’ is a nice ride and keeps the coach’s legs as fresh as possible for daily drills"

I can visualize it now, through the eyes of Jack Crystal:


"Jack Crystal here folks, for the annual gridiron tilt between the mighty Tulane Golden Wave and your Mississippi State Bulldogs. Now, here come the Bulldogs trotting onto the field, all 30 of them, led by 2nd year Coach Sylvester Croom in his nitro powered Croommobile. The Bulldogs are sporting their home maroon jerseys, with white pants, white helmets with maroon stripe, white socks with 2 maroon stripes, and black shoes with pink shoelaces. Coach Croom's Croommobile is very, very pimped out, with maroon stripes on the side, maroon shag carpet throughout, custom maroon leather seats from Tiajuana, custom chrome spinning rims (they be just spinning and spinning and spinning), a Colt 45 logo (new sponsor of MSU sports) and his lucky rabbit foot hanging from the rear view mirror. We're looking forward to a very, very good football contest today between two very, very mediocre but hungry teams searching for that first sweet taste of victory(or at least a bucket of KFC). And now Coach Croom is emerging from the Croommobile onto the sideline, sporting a three piece maroon gaberdeen zoot suit, with maroon and white two tone ostrich shoes, white hat with maroon hat band, white open collar ruffled sleeve shirt, heavy gold chain with dancing bulldog pendant, and a maroon striped ivory cane with gold accent. Very, very dapper, if I do say so myself. And Coach Croom's knee, which he surgically repaired during the offseason, looks to be in fine , fine condition, as he just did a little James Brown shimmy shuffle down the sideline before putting on his gold plated headset. "

You are one sad soul.....

PML, that there is funny but do not 'dis Tulane so much!

po monkey

cocaine is a poweful drug!!!!

Colt 45 as a new sponsor!

thats funny i don't care who you are

Monkey, you forgot the three pine tree air fresheners hanging from the rear view mirror. You ain't right. I'm forwarding this post to Coach Crooms email address with your law firms address attached. Coach will get a big laugh out of this one.

Bring it on.

Speaking of fighting, whooping booty, etc, what I would really like to see is a cage match between Coach Croom and Coach O, possibly as a prelude to this year's Egg Bowl ---- that would probably be more exciting than the game. Use tough man competition rules ---that is, pretty much anything goes, including head butting.

we can't do that, Scott field might actually be packed for a change..

Po Monkey Lounger wrote:Bring it on.

Speaking of fighting, whooping booty, etc, what I would really like to see is a cage match between Coach Croom and Coach O, possibly as a prelude to this year's Egg Bowl ---- that would probably be more exciting than the game. Use tough man competition rules ---that is, pretty much anything goes, including head butting.

Head Butting........????? NO FAIR!!!! You could land a jumbo jet on Coach Zero's big @ss noggin!!!!!

Don, to make it fair, I propose letting ol Bigwater into the ring to help Croom handle the big, fighting ragin Cajun. Now, I would pay money to see that for sure.