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I would be shocked if UNC thinking about hiring him.

Guys, are we saying that Croom should never get another head coaching job just because he had a not so good run at state. A program that was at the bottom when he arrived. I think that is being a little unfair. Maybe he as learned from his mistakes and will be a better head coach. He is not the first coach that had a bad run at state. Atleast he had one winning season.

He was loyal to a fault. There are worse qualities. If he hired a quality offensive coordinator and let him work he could be successful. Not like BCS champion successful but consistent Music City bowl champs successful. He is a good man and got better as a recruiter. Never improved in his grasp of college offensive football.

In a word no. i do feel like he is a good man though. I wouldnt hire him but he is a good man

Probably NC is not really considering Croom. There are plenty of competent coaches who would clean up a program as a routine part of the job, not as some remarkable extra undertaking. Does anyone think Dan Mullen would have a mess to coach? Dooley at TN won't either. The best coaches won't tolerate a mess to try to coach in. They don't want it and don't have to suffer in that environment and won't tolerate it if they were to take the job with a situation like at NC. My guess is that a few alumni at NC who haven't thought the situation out very well may have been approached by Croom. Could also be that no good coach wants the job under the present conditions, and so somebody is musing about Croom.

I didn't know Ellis Johnson was the head coach. LOL!!! Look I think Croom also did a bad job at state but I also believe people should get a second chance. If Croom would have had a real OC maybe things would have been different, but yes I do understand that it was Croom that chose him and wouldn't fire him. It's doesn't matter to me if Croom was black, white or green I just believe in second chances.

I resented Croom for running Ellis Johnson off. He was about the only thing we had to push the team forward at all. Croom was incompetent, egotistical and largely a phoney. He had no head coaching experience. He could have started at South Alabama or Alcorn, maybe, but it's likely he would have been a failure there, too. He had no claim to fame other than he was the only black head coach in the SEC, and he had many interviews along that line, not about his successes in coaching teams somewhere he'd been before. We basically got nothing for having made him a multi-millionaire.

Ask guys like Bobo and Littlejohn about Sly. He was incompetent. Period. If you are incompetent, at least try to get some guys in who can carry you: Ellis Johnson did and Woody didn't. After 5 years of terrible football where we lost to UAB, Tulane, La Tech and Maine, he should never get a sniff of a HC job ever again.