TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama released a video of former All-American and assistant coach Sylvester Croom’s speech to the team.
SEC atmospheres but it is more so ranking SEC fanbases, so I want yalls thoughts on what to do I have been a Mississippi ...
Sylvester Croom, a native of Tuscaloosa and son of the late Rev. Sylvester Croom, Sr., one of the city’s most prominent leaders, made his mark as an All-America center for Alabama as a senior in ...
Freeman, who is bi-racial with Black and South Korean parents, already staked a place as the first such head coach to lead a ...
Craig Meyer is a college sportswriter for the USA Today Network and the publisher of the Substack newsletter the Front Porch, where a version of this essay first appeared. When Notre Dame takes ...
He remembers what that meant to him and his players, not only knowing the number, but each of their names: Sylvester Croom was at Mississippi State, Turner Gill was at Buffalo, Karl Dorrell was ...
At the time, there were only six Black head coaches out of 127 FBS schools. One was Sylvester Croom, the first African-American head coach to work in the SEC. He can rattle off the rest easily: Prince ...
Black college football coaches share what it means to see a Black coach contend for the national title for the first time.
But it is an increase," Franklin said. Franklin also referred to other coaches he's encountered over the years, from Mississippi State's Sylvester Croom to current Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem ...
This is for coaches like Eugene Chung, coaches like Norm Chow and Sylvester Croom. Tyrone Willingham was the first black head coach at the school Freeman currently coaches at, and Freeman making ...
In 2003, Sylvester Croom told reporters, "There ain’t but one color that matters here and that color is maroon,” upon his hiring at Mississippi State, marking the first time an SEC program ...