St. Louis Rams to hire Croom, 2 others
Although there has been no official announcement or confirmation, the Rams are set to hire former Mississippi State head coach Sylvester Croom to their staff, according to league sources. It is believed that Croom, 54, would coach running backs in St. Louis.
Prior to his five-year tenure as head coach at Mississippi State, Croom spent 17 seasons coaching in the NFL. Thirteen of those 17 seasons were as running backs coach with Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, San Diego, and Green Bay. The other four seasons were spent as offensive coordinator for Bobby Ross and the Detroit Lions, from 1997-2000.
Croom was the first African-American head football coach in the Southeastern Conference, but resigned at the end of Mississippi State’s 2008 season.
The Rams also are hiring Rock Gullickson as strength and conditioning coach, and Matt House to an undetermined position, according to league sources. Gullickson, 53, was strength coach for Green Bay the past three seasons and had the same position with the New Orleans Saints from 2000-05. House, 30, was a special teams assistant as well as assistant strength and conditioning coach for Carolina last season _ his first year in the NFL.
Seems like they could be good hirings. I like House, from what I just read about him on the Panthers site.
Good job Rams. Croom is a good man.
I love that we’re getting a S&C coach named Rock.
It appears as though things are headed in the right direction.
yes i like to hear them addressing the strength and conditioning of this football team i mean i know we play on turf so its tough on body but they are always tired and getting hurt i’ve been saying for yrs we needed a good S&C coach
Hated to see Croom leave MS State. I could care less if he won there or not. The important thing was he recruited quality character individuals and hopefully he will bring that strength of developing quality to the Rams. You won’t see behavior like Richie Incognito’s on a Croom coached team. If the Rams continue to lose, they will at least lose with class.
I love the Croom hire. Spags and Billy D keep on doing good things to bring good football men into the organization.
I love all of you!
This is great news for the Rams. Croom is an outstanding coach, and even better person, and M State simply gave up on him too quickly. I don’t care what his record says. He did things there that no one thought could be done.
Way to go Croom! I can’t wait to see you make those Bullpups see what they missed out on.
“This is great news for the Rams. Croom is an outstanding coach, and even better person, and M State simply gave up on him too quickly. I don’t care what his record says. He did things there that no one thought could be done.”
Seriously Memphis Mike? What did he do at MSU that no one thought could be done? Average 3 wins per season for 4 of his 5 years here? Yeah he’s awesome. How long did he deserve, 10 years? Unlike you, I am an MSU fan and I do care what his record says. You know what it says? It says he sucks as a head coach. My favorite thing about Croom is that he is no longer coaching here. Good luck numbnuts.
— MS State FAn - That’s a great endorsement. Thanx for the info.
easy girls, Croom is a great RB coach, look at Tampa while he was there and after he left, NOT the same production, so Steven J finally has a coach that can teach him how to run and stay healthy, so great job Billy and Spags, your bringing in quality teachers of the football art, the reversal won’t happen over night but it will happen with these coach’s, and I agree, everyone cares about whether their team wins or looses and the quality of the coachs or we wouldn’t be doing what we do on this web sight for the “GREATEST TEAM EVER TO PLAY,,,,, PRO,,,,FOOOOOOTBAAAAAALL!!!!!!
GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Croom is a very good hire. Overall me and my fellow (all 23 of us)CO Ramclan agree the overall moves have been good. No where to go but up!
All good hires for the Rams. I think we might actually focus on running the ball 25-30 times a game which is nice. Croom is a great hire he did spend 17 seasons coaching in the NFL. Far as I know you dont do that if you suck. Also some coaches in the NFL do not make good college coaches so just because he had a bad college coahing career shows nothing about his coaching abilities. He is a great character man with proven NFL experience. Anything is better than what was here the past 3 years.
Funny how most of the negative comments about our new coaches have been from disgruntled fans of the teams they came from, Mississippi State, Chiefs, Vikings. Can’t you guys keep your negative venom on your own boards? What - is it no fun any more because you can’t think up any more negative stuff to say about your team or coaches on your own boards so you’ve got time to follow coaches you hate to other teams boards and tell us how bad they are? You don’t have anything better to do with your lives than that? Tells me all I need to know about you characters. When we want your opinions will ask. Go back where you came from and continue to be miserable. We believe we’ve got a good thing going here and certainly don’t need your “expertise.” Thanks anyway.
I wouldn’t expect the return of “the greatest show on turf” anytime soon.
Good luck with Coach Croom. I think he will be back in his element as an assistant. Good man, poor head coach.
Hey redstorm, I’ve been on the post dispatch boards for over 3 years now so I’m not some troll looking to hate on Croom, I just happen to be a MSU fan as well as a Rams fan and he was horrible at MSU. I’m not saying he’s bad as a NFL running back coach but anybody on here saying he did good during his tenure at State are on acid.
Did things there nobody thought he could? What did he do? Lose to Division II schools and win 3 games a year? He had one good year when they won the Liberty bowl and that was it. Jackie Sherril took the team to SEC Title game and almost beat an undefeated Tennessee team that won the nation title that year so it’s not lie the Liberty Bowl was new high.
These Miss St guys crack me up Crooms was a good coach for a sorry run of the mill program MS is a also ran of the SEC down there with my hometown Gamecocks 3 years from now they will be hiring another coach, realize this you are not Bama or LSU you are and always will be MISSISSISSIPPI State and yes I misspelled it on purpose you are losers now and always and would not know how to build a program.
And D-Nice…YOU SUCK AT GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION!!!!!
Sorry D-nice. I am a Rams fan and not a MSU troll. But your typing was AWFUL and It made me stop reading about halfway through the paragraph.
YAY RAMS!!!!
D-nice you are a moron. MSU was very good in college sports in the late 90’s, they went to a final four and were a very good SEC program in football. To state no one can win there is moronic. I know you can’t be talking basketball because they’ve been one of the top teams in the SEC there for years. As far as football Sherril won there, so yes, you can win there as Dan Mullen will prove.
I hope Croom does a better job teaching 39 to hold onto the ball than he did with Ahman Green.