FSU Football: Impact of Walt Bell leaving for UMass
By Kelvin Hunt
FSU football is on the market for a new offensive coordinator as Walt Bell is the new head coach at UMass.
FSU football lost offensive coordinator Walt Bell Monday afternoon as it was announced he would be taking the head coaching job at UMass to become one of the youngest head coaches in all of college football.
Bell was at FSU for just one season after two seasons of being the offensive coordinator at Maryland.
The thought was Bell and FSU head coach Willie Taggart had similar offensive philosophies that should have jelled together for the most part.
Either that wasn’t the case or the two were not together long enough for that to happen. The FSU offense was the worst it has been in over a decade with Walt Bell as the offensive coordinator.
The offense looked lost and uncoordinated for much of the season, but Bell did have to work with a multitude of injuries along the offensive line and a quarterback in Deondre Francois who simply was not good in the new offensive system Taggart and Bell were trying to implement.
Here’s the @YahooSports story on Florida State OC Walt Bell heading to UMass. Includes contract details. https://t.co/g3qb9p0lrO
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) December 3, 2018
Bell took a pay cut to take the UMass job which is interesting to say the least and it’s not like it’s a place where he’ll have access to great talent to turn around a program that went 4-8 last season.
Let’s talk about the potential impact for FSU football.