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09-19-2006, 07:17 PM
http://www.sectalk.com/boards/images/logos/Mississippi_St.gifSherrill to speak at Quarterback Club.
By Mike Tankersley
Montgomery Advertiser
Jackie Sherrill was a head coach in college football for more than a quarter of a century. He doesn't figure to ever walk the sidelines again.
"You miss the players and you miss the coaches," said Sherrill, now a college football studio analyst for FSN Southwest. "But you don't miss all the other stuff, the hypocritical stuff.
"It's different being a coach today. I'm not a politician. Things aren't gray with me. They are black and white."
Sherrill is sure to make some candid remarks when he addresses the Montgomery Quarterback Club tonight at the Embassy Suites downtown. The program begins at 7 p.m., preceded by a social hour beginning at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30. Memberships are available at the door.
Sherrill will have plenty of topics to discuss, ranging from the abysmal early showing of the Big 12 Conference to the lack of success of his successor at Mississippi State, Sylvester Croom.
Croom's biggest problem, as Sherrill sees it, is that he doesn't have the personnel to run the West Coast-style offense he's trying to implement. Chances are, Sherrill added, Croom won't ever get enough of that kind of personnel. Sherrill should know. He was Mississippi State's head coach from 1991-2003.
"To run that kind of offense, you have to have skill people -- a lot of them," Sherrill said. "When you're at Mississippi State, the big schools around you -- LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Auburn -- they're going to get more skill people than you will.
"They (Croom and his staff) have got to get the personnel, or he will have to change what he's doing and run the kind of offense that best fits the personnel he has."
Sherrill also keeps up with his old school, Alabama, and has followed what Mike Shula has done there the last few years. He says fans that aren't happy with Shula who might as well come to grips with the fact that Shula will be there for the foreseeable future.
"They are not going to make a change," Sherrill said emphatically. "Alabama went through too many changes to make a change right now.
"Having said that, he is 0-3 against Auburn. If he goes to 0-5 against Auburn, things might change then. But they're not going to make a change now."
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By Mike Tankersley
Montgomery Advertiser
Jackie Sherrill was a head coach in college football for more than a quarter of a century. He doesn't figure to ever walk the sidelines again.
"You miss the players and you miss the coaches," said Sherrill, now a college football studio analyst for FSN Southwest. "But you don't miss all the other stuff, the hypocritical stuff.
"It's different being a coach today. I'm not a politician. Things aren't gray with me. They are black and white."
Sherrill is sure to make some candid remarks when he addresses the Montgomery Quarterback Club tonight at the Embassy Suites downtown. The program begins at 7 p.m., preceded by a social hour beginning at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30. Memberships are available at the door.
Sherrill will have plenty of topics to discuss, ranging from the abysmal early showing of the Big 12 Conference to the lack of success of his successor at Mississippi State, Sylvester Croom.
Croom's biggest problem, as Sherrill sees it, is that he doesn't have the personnel to run the West Coast-style offense he's trying to implement. Chances are, Sherrill added, Croom won't ever get enough of that kind of personnel. Sherrill should know. He was Mississippi State's head coach from 1991-2003.
"To run that kind of offense, you have to have skill people -- a lot of them," Sherrill said. "When you're at Mississippi State, the big schools around you -- LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Auburn -- they're going to get more skill people than you will.
"They (Croom and his staff) have got to get the personnel, or he will have to change what he's doing and run the kind of offense that best fits the personnel he has."
Sherrill also keeps up with his old school, Alabama, and has followed what Mike Shula has done there the last few years. He says fans that aren't happy with Shula who might as well come to grips with the fact that Shula will be there for the foreseeable future.
"They are not going to make a change," Sherrill said emphatically. "Alabama went through too many changes to make a change right now.
"Having said that, he is 0-3 against Auburn. If he goes to 0-5 against Auburn, things might change then. But they're not going to make a change now."
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