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Flip question: Most embarrassed you've ever been for MSU football |
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Posts: 8281 07/04/09 02:52 PM |
In my mind it was the "Thanks for the Check Bowl" vs Tulane.
In the minute possibility that you're reading this Mr Croom-we don't and won't miss you at all |
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Posts: 5971 07/04/09 04:59 PM |
Croomp wrote: Agree and I'll throw one more in. Circa 1992, we're poised to do something special and possibly compete for an SEC title. At mid season we have a good record and are headed to play a 1-6 or some such South Carolina team on the road - and we stink up the field and get beat handily. Screwing up a gimmie win when there's a chance for a great season hurts worse than general season-long suckitude. |
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KurtRambis4 |
Any game crooms coached | #22 | ||
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Posts: 3570 07/04/09 05:03 PM |
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+1 for ronny's archive and no capitalization
- "that escalator is a tricky thing, man." - greg hardy 
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Coach34 |
but thats my point... | #23 | ||
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Posts: 13592 07/04/09 05:07 PM Our KB21 |
Barkman Turner Overdrive wrote: I agree with you totally, but Maine wasnt even D-1. They were a mediocre 1-AA. Losing to them is way worse than losing to a D-1 team that had been a 1-AA Power
"November and December isn't exhibition season," Slive said
Stansbury is 17-44 against the top 25, and 51-82 overall against the top 50...I rest my case (numbers compliments of ScoobaDawg) "The best proven coordinator out there from a big school and the best head coach from a non-BCS program would not give MSU the time of day." - Willie Cunningham...a k a Ol Blew...a k a irsdawg" - October 22nd, 2008 |
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MSUCostanza |
I agree. | #24 | ||
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Posts: 8150 07/04/09 05:13 PM Post Count + 10000 |
Maine finished 5-6 the year they beat us. Let that sink in. I think somebody (a I-AA team) beat them by like 30 points late in that season.
I forgot about Arkansas State in '93. That was just as bad. That 1993 team would've had trouble beating Millsaps.
Greg Byrne is the Stan Jones of athletic directors.
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Frances Drebin |
To me... | #25 | ||
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Posts: 5276 07/04/09 05:18 PM Lieutenant |
...Maine and Troy were both really embarrassing, but the most embarrassing afternoon of football for me was the 52-0 shellacking we took in Gainesville in
2001. It was a long drive there, a dismal and overrated game day experience, a complete drubbbing (including Spurrier getting a late TD for the water boy),
smack talk from a bunch of mullet-having, jort-wearing trailer trash, and a long drive home. What a forgettable trip.
I can't believe nobody else mentioned it. "Couple that with no way the SEC doesnt get 3 teams in the Tourney- I still maintain that the SEC gets 4...Slive heading up the committee should all but make 4 happen..." -Peaches, 3/13 |
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MSUCostanza |
Definitely on the list.. | #26 | ||
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Posts: 8152 07/04/09 05:21 PM Post Count + 10000 |
and you are spot on about your description of Gainesville. Shittastic. Told my buddy I would laugh in the face of anyone from northern Florida that ever
called me a redneck after driving from Jacksonville to Gainesville. Trashiest place on earth.
Greg Byrne is the Stan Jones of athletic directors.
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Mutt the Hoople |
Actually, it was Troy 2002. State won....11-8. | #27 | ||
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Posts: 1409 07/04/09 05:39 PM King of Pointless Knowledge
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That was when I realized that Jackie had lost his mojo and would never get it back. It was embarrassing to see how lucky we were to win that game.
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Posts: 1165 07/04/09 05:56 PM |
The Maine lose was an embarrassment, but after the previous three seasons, especially the utter shitastic 02 and 03 seasons, I had become adjusted to the
losing. I guess I developed an immunity where I just lost all sense of caring. I used to live and die MSU football and, in 2001, I was spoiled because the
only losing year I experienced as a student was the 1996 season. Until the Troy State game, we were four points away from being 3-1 and I felt the team could
still rebound and sneak into a bowl. All the hopes and dreams for the season went down the drain that evening. That's why it was so embarrasing.
"I didn't ask her, 'so whose bastard child is this?'"- Coastie from Gulfport
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wbc40 |
Leaving La. Tech's stadium last year | #29 | ||
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Posts: 195 07/04/09 07:01 PM |
Those who were there probably know what I'm talking about. It's hard to describe the way I felt leaving that stadium.
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Porkchop |
Maine. | #30 | ||
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Posts: 1715 07/04/09 07:11 PM Louis Winthorpe III |
It was at home and I am pretty sure that before that year, Maine was one of those schools that has a basketball team but not a football team. I'm not
serious about that. But, that was damn near my impression of them. They probably called out on the campus intercom and asked whoever wanted to play football
in MS that weekend to load up on the bus, and they would discuss plays on the way.
Freakin' Maine. Damn. I am getting pissed off all over again. |
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Indndawg |
This was the game I realized Croom could not coach | #31 | ||
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Posts: 8286 07/04/09 07:23 PM |
and we had made an epic failure for a hire.
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WalkTheDawg |
I just don't see how the answer to this can't collectively be Maine | #32 | ||
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Posts: 1809 07/04/09 07:30 PM |
I mean I have sit and been embarrassed many times before and since... but Maine brought a bunch of Div I-AA hockey rejects down here and beat MSU on our own
field. Damn. South Panola could have won that game for crying out loud. I sat there that night and knew that 4-5 years of Sly Croom was going to be pure
hell... I could forsee it.
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Posts: 881 07/04/09 07:33 PM |
was the 11-8 win the same game that Fant got hurt when we ran a QB draw trying to run out the clock? My memory feels hazy on those years of JackieBall.
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Coach34 |
we lost to a 5-6 1-AA team... | #34 | ||
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Posts: 13595 07/04/09 07:34 PM Our KB21 |
with 5 or 6 future NFL players on our roster on our home field. ....I dont see how it can ever be anymore embarrassing than that
It will always be Maine for me
"November and December isn't exhibition season," Slive said
Stansbury is 17-44 against the top 25, and 51-82 overall against the top 50...I rest my case (numbers compliments of ScoobaDawg) "The best proven coordinator out there from a big school and the best head coach from a non-BCS program would not give MSU the time of day." - Willie Cunningham...a k a Ol Blew...a k a irsdawg" - October 22nd, 2008 |
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Croomcream |
Easy...The @#%&^(**& 2008 Egg Bowl! | #35 | ||
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Posts: 171 07/04/09 08:48 PM |
There isn't enough Jack Daniels to wash that one away! |
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Posts: 8833 07/04/09 08:50 PM Sixpack's Official Farmer |
Maine
Losses to Tulane and Houston during the Crooms era. Troy State 01? 
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BewareOfMSUDawg |
That's the one. | #37 | ||
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Posts: 2147 07/04/09 09:02 PM |
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BewareOfMSUDawg |
The Maine and Tulane 2006 games were the most embarassing. | #38 | ||
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Posts: 2148 07/04/09 09:28 PM |
Tulane 2006 was most embarassing from a performance standpoint. We were playing a homeless Tulane team that was essentially a mediocre 1-AA opponent in
terms of talent (and was nearly disbanded the year before), and for 3 quarters they kicked the ever loving hell out of us. Throw in the fact that it was
Croom's 3rd game of his 3rd season and that he had been shut out in the first two games of that season makes it worse. I had already given up on him being
a successful coach the year before, but the depths that we sunk to in that game was mind-blowing. If I remember correctly, Tulane actually put in their 2nd
string at the start of the 4th quarter, which was a big reason the final score was close. It's still amazing that we were down 32-7 to a 1-AA quality team
fairly late in the game.
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jakldawg |
Here's why it's Troy for me | #39 | ||
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Posts: 1743 07/04/09 09:46 PM |
I was one of the dozens that actually came back to watch the debacle to its completion after the tornado warning. Anyway, Troy beat the crap out of us. We were
never in the game at any point. Plus, there were so many expectations that season that were obviously shot to hell by that point. It seems like the Maine game
was lost due in large part to us dicking around and Maine capitalizing on it. Sadly, I dont' think there is a wrong answer on this one.
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riverdawg |
Definately Tulane 2006 for me | #40 | ||
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Posts: 53 07/05/09 12:41 AM |
Sure, the Maine loss was very embarassing, but we did statistically dominate the game. I think we had 5 turnovers in the red zone or something like that.
Tulane just completely kicked our ass. Tray Rutland started that game at QB and looked completely helpless. Tulane being up 32-7 on us in the 3rd quarter I
think was rock bottom of the Croom era. The only reason we made it close was because Tulane's punter dropped a snap in the end zone and we recovered it,
and Croom put Omarr Conner in and just let him draw up plays in the dirt. Shockingly, that seemed to work well, so of course we never let him do that again.
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