FSU Football: Deondre Francois dismissal still right despite possibly accuser apology

FSU football made the decision to part ways with their starting QB after the disturbing audio was released, but now the woman behind it is apologizing.

For the past three days, the FSU football program has been in the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons after the disturbing audio was released that reportedly was of starting quarterback Deondre Francois making threats of physical violence toward a woman who he had a previous relationship with.

Since the release of that audio on Saturday night, the decision was made by head coach Willie Taggart to part ways with Francois after which he issued a statement about changing the character surrounding the program – and Francois on Monday entered his name into the transfer portal for next season.

Well, Monday also brought an item from the same social media account that posted the initial audio of the now former FSU football quarterback – this time, a message was posted that has some wondering if Taggart and the Noles acted too fast.

After the message was posted, family members of the woman who had the now deleted account claimed that the message was posted due to her account being hacked – though that has not been independently confirmed.

Now, let me state for the record that I understand why some people are upset and defending Francois because of the comment that he did not actually hit the female involved according to her (whether she is just saying that to defend him now or he actually didn’t hit her still has not been independently verified).

With that being said, I couldn’t disagree with that argument any more than I do right now. The words that were spoken in the audio clip were beyond disgusting – even the sheer thought of threatening to hit a woman because of an argument shows a lack of character and leadership that the FSU football program doesn’t need to deal with as told by the transcribing of that audio.

"“Throw it again, so I can beat yo (expletive)…I’m going to hit you in your face every (expletive) time, throw something else.”"

One would have to believe that Taggart did not make the decision to let Francois go on the basis of accusations – if he wasn’t the man in that audio, you would have to think Deondre would have fought for his name. The move seems to indicate that the FSU football coach got an admission that Francois was indeed the man making the disturbing threats.

For those arguing that the female involved should have kept the audio between her and the former FSU football quarterback, it would have been one thing if they just had a typical argument that every couple has – when threats of physical violence are given to go along with her comments in the second message, that changes the game completely.

Because of that, Taggart made the right decision in cutting ties with Francois – and while there will be some within and outside of the program who are going to be against it, there should no be no second guessing.