First off this program didn’t start declining just because Jimbo left. I now see that Jimbo left because he saw the writing on the wall that FSU was not all in on football and that the administration were moving towards just an athletic and academic school. A political figure as a president and Wilcox as an AD which neither are football guys.
This program isn’t bought in 100% on my football, it just isn’t. Hence why we have hired 2 subpar football coaches in a row. Nothing I saw from Norvell ever excited me about him coming here. 10-3 8-6 12-1 at Memphis. Outside his last year at Memphis he was subpar. These GO5 coaches are budget hires for teams that are just looking for nice 8-4 9-3 seasons. Just like anything else though you could point out an Urban Meyer but for every one Urban I can point of 50 Willies. By the way… Urban was 22-2 at Utah.
Until FSU gets football first guys in the administration and is willing to go all in on football and is willing to dump bookooz amount of money on everything and anything football then and only then will FSU turn things around. You have to be all in on football and football only to win big in today’s CFB. It is just the way it is. Gone are the days of Frank Beamer and even Bobby Bowden with given 10 -15+ years to build a program. CFB is big business.
I made a post a few weeks back saying I’m happy that we had Norvell instead of Bob Stoops. I said this because Norvell was saying all the right things, doing great things on the recruiting trail and like always I drink the off-season Kool-Aid. Bet your ass, though, that this class will start falling apart. It just will because no way this team wins more than 4 games this season to go along with the very undisciplined sloppy play. Nothing has changed. These recruits have a promising future in football and coming to FSU would just be a horrible business decision.
Now that reality has set in I know this program needs a Bob Stoops to turn things around but a Bob Stoops or anyone else of that caliber would ever come here because of two reasons… One: FSU wouldn’t be willing to pay for them and Two: Coaches of that caliber would want to know that FSU would be all in on football and we are not.
I remember, correct me if I’m wrong, that Bob Stoops was contacted by FSU but he asked for a big amount and wanted complete control of the football program. Also there was talk about him being in the AD position? Well… pffftt. Screw that! Go get that dude from Memphis and call it a day. This program will never be back until football comes first!
This program isn’t bought in 100% on my football, it just isn’t. Hence why we have hired 2 subpar football coaches in a row. Nothing I saw from Norvell ever excited me about him coming here. 10-3 8-6 12-1 at Memphis. Outside his last year at Memphis he was subpar. These GO5 coaches are budget hires for teams that are just looking for nice 8-4 9-3 seasons. Just like anything else though you could point out an Urban Meyer but for every one Urban I can point of 50 Willies. By the way… Urban was 22-2 at Utah.
Until FSU gets football first guys in the administration and is willing to go all in on football and is willing to dump bookooz amount of money on everything and anything football then and only then will FSU turn things around. You have to be all in on football and football only to win big in today’s CFB. It is just the way it is. Gone are the days of Frank Beamer and even Bobby Bowden with given 10 -15+ years to build a program. CFB is big business.
I made a post a few weeks back saying I’m happy that we had Norvell instead of Bob Stoops. I said this because Norvell was saying all the right things, doing great things on the recruiting trail and like always I drink the off-season Kool-Aid. Bet your ass, though, that this class will start falling apart. It just will because no way this team wins more than 4 games this season to go along with the very undisciplined sloppy play. Nothing has changed. These recruits have a promising future in football and coming to FSU would just be a horrible business decision.
Now that reality has set in I know this program needs a Bob Stoops to turn things around but a Bob Stoops or anyone else of that caliber would ever come here because of two reasons… One: FSU wouldn’t be willing to pay for them and Two: Coaches of that caliber would want to know that FSU would be all in on football and we are not.
I remember, correct me if I’m wrong, that Bob Stoops was contacted by FSU but he asked for a big amount and wanted complete control of the football program. Also there was talk about him being in the AD position? Well… pffftt. Screw that! Go get that dude from Memphis and call it a day. This program will never be back until football comes first!
