FSU Football: SEC troll wrong in criticizing Noles head coaching job

FSU Football has become one of the top jobs in the entire country for any head coach, no matter what some talking head from Alabama might think.

If you’ve been living under a rock since the end of last November (and we couldn’t really blame you if you are a diehard fan of the FSU football team), you would be unaware that the Seminoles finished last season with a record of 5-7…the first losing season for the program in over four decades.

Since then, the world has focused their attention on all the things that are wrong with the program – from issues with the players that were recruited by the previous staff to those who want current head coach Willie Taggart to be shown the door after coaching literally one season in Tallahassee.

Among that group who seems to be placing all the blame on Taggart for the recent woes involving the FSU football team would be a member of the ESPN family in radio host and notorious SEC troll Paul Finebaum.

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For whatever the reason – probably still bitter about the Seminoles defeating SEC member Auburn for the national title just a few seasons ago – Finebaum has gone all in on the Seminoles in recent seasons and did not stop of late.

During a recent interview, the man who likes to think he knows anything about the game of football seemed to go off the top rope and didn’t just go after Taggart – but this time, tried to take out the whole Seminoles program and actually said it wasn’t a destination job anymore.

"“If you look at schools who have crashed and burned in recent years, FSU would be the poster child. And there’s a great debate on what happened, because it has not been very long.I don’t know because I’m not down there whether the criticism is deserved on Jimbo Fisher. Willie Taggart to me is not the right coach. He has shown me absolutely nothing.”"

Now, like many people who had an association with the school and the fanbase of the FSU football program, I am not happy that Taggart’s first season ended with the Seminoles not in a bowl game for the first time since 1981 and the first losing season since the first season for Bobby Bowden as head coach of the Seminoles back in 1976.

But “crashed and burned?” I know I have written about the blabber that comes out of Finebaum’s mouth before and told fans of the Seminoles not to feed this troll, but this might even be a tad over the top even for someone using common sense – something he seems to have avoided using of late.

This was a team who, for 41 seasons before last year, didn’t have a losing campaign – something that no other team in the country can say…while over that same span, every team in Finebaum’s beloved SEC had at least four losing seasons (Florida) while four schools (Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri and Vanderbilt) had over half their seasons be losing during that span.

Finebaum also proved his bias in the quote as he was the first person to be critical of the former coach for FSU football – until that coach bolted for Texas A&M, a SEC school, and is now being treated like he is the second coming of Nick Saban at this point.

I get where Finebaum was going here in just trying to stoke the fire and keep the hot takes going for those of us in garnet and gold who can’t stand him – but there is a line and he went way over it with this “analysis”.