FSU football will end spring practice on Saturday with an annual game that won’t have nearly as much hype as what we saw last April.
Saturday afternoon, the FSU football team will put an end to the first part of their turnaround following a losing season with the annual garnet and gold spring football game featuring the teams somewhat evenly split and giving Willie Taggart and the rest of his staff to see what needs to be done heading into fall practice.
It will be the second time Taggart has led the Seminoles onto the field at Doak Campbell Stadium during the month of April for such an event – but unlike what took place last spring, there won’t be nearly as much hype as their was before.
Oh sure, there will be the scheduled concert for afterward featuring three washed up rap artists or groups from the 1990s – but there won’t be anywhere close to there record setting crowd of over 60,000 people you saw last season inside of the stadium and as much of the national attention paid toward seeing what the Noles have in store.
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After the first losing season in over four decades, the FSU football team is flying under the radar this spring when it comes to expectations. After last spring, there were plenty of people – myself included – who drank the punch that came with all the hopes and thought it was going to be a season where the Noles were going to bounce back from a woeful 2017 season.
As it turns out, things got worse than the season before – and much of the criticism turned back toward the Seminoles based on the hype that followed the program starting in the spring and carried into the fall.
Now, FSU football has some people wondering if they will even have a winning season next year as people have jumped off the bandwagon of Taggart and the Seminoles quicker than people trying to save themselves on the Titanic – and that might be the best thing for the Noles.
First off, I will be the person going out there and calling it right now that the Seminoles will NOT have a losing season in 2019 – the slightly easier schedule and amount of talent on the roster won’t allow it. No, I’m not calling 11-1 and a trip to the ACC title game…but 8-4 or 9-3 is close to being a real possibility.
But FSU football would be best served by just flying under the radar until the season starts on August 31st against Boise State. Let the critics throw their venom around and allow this game to be just an afterthought for the time being on a national level.
That way, when the turnaround takes place and the Seminoles are back to bowling this coming season and possibly sniffing double digit wins, people will be “surprised” while those of us in garnet and gold knew it was going to happen all along.