Wasn't he a coach with another SEC school some time back. I want to say defensive backs or something. It's amazing when you see how many players he recruited and coached are in the NFL like Tory James, Eddie Kenison, Kevin Mawai, Chuck Wiley, Denard Walker, and so on. There's no way his teams should have been so mediocre. I hope he landed on his feet. I sort of felt bad for him his last year. I think he deserves another shot somewhere. I mean if Dinardi can get the Indiana job, Curley should be able to get a job somewhere.
DB coach under Jackie. Don't know which assistants Croom plans to keep, though. He may be looking for work again. http://www.mstateathletics.com/0,5604,1_27_0_17783,00.html
They say he has passed up Division II and III head coaching jobs because you can get better pay as a Division I assistant in the SEC. He also coached a year professionally in Birmingham under Gerry Dinardo in the short-lived XFL. I briefly talked to Curley once . . . in line at the Circle-K. Nice fellow, but he drinks Coors Light, for heavens sake.
Wow that was nice of Dinardo to give him a job for a year. I'm glad that he was offered to stay on at Miss. St. He is a nice guy. The players I knew all liked him for the most part. He was good to most of them. I never met him, but from what I heard he was a decent guy. He was smarter than he let on to the media, which might have been his undoing. I felt bad for him his last year at LSU. Remember that Golden Flake commericial he did? You know given that Dinardo must be so desperate for any help he can get, he ought to see if Curley would be interested in coming up and maybe helping Gerry with recruiting down South. I think it's the only way IU can ever be competitive in the Big Ten and against Purdue and Notre Dame. Dinardo most likely has the worst job in the big ten right now.
My roommate and I used to drive to Birmingham every weekend to watch XFL football. The Thunderdolts were awful, but the free lapdances kept us going back.
Au contraire...Indiana might just be the BEST job in the Big 10 (11?) to have right now. The only person under any pressure to win up there is Mike Davis. Most of those Hoosiers don't expect Gerry to win, and couldn't care less if he does, just as long as Davis keeps getting them back to The Big Dance.
