FSU football: Football world reacts to firing of Willie Taggart
By Kelvin Hunt
FSU football has announced Willie Taggart has been relieved of his duties as head coach. The football world reacts to the news.
I wrote the writing was probably on the wall for Willie Taggart after the loss to Miami Saturday. I didn’t expect it to come this quickly, but FSU the FSU administration has seen enough.
The FSU fan base has seen enough too as less than 65,000 fans came to Doak Campbell Stadium for a rivalry game against Miami with a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff.
They had a game earlier in the year against Louisville with less than 50,000 in attendance with a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff.
A lot of FSU football fans have been calling for the move to be made as early as the Louisiana-Monroe game. It’s clear the FSU administration was between a rock and a hard place but felt they had to make the move now.
Taggart was 9-12 in his tenure at FSU while going 0-3 against Miami and Florida with another likely loss on the horizon to Florida.
Florida State fires Willie Taggart. Odell Haggins, who is in 26th season on FSU’s coaching staff, will be interim head coach
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) November 3, 2019
Twitter Reaction
Smh I get it but idk who wants this coaching job when the fan base is impatient and doesn’t give the coach time to build
— Mind Goblin (@Blackout0824) November 3, 2019
Just like J Cole said man they asked the BROTHER to steer the boat but they already knew it was drowning!!! #StillJigga
— Sterl (@HunchoJaQk8) November 3, 2019
Just like J Cole said man they asked the BROTHER to steer the boat but they already knew it was drowning!!! #StillJigga
— Sterl (@HunchoJaQk8) November 3, 2019
This all caught me off guard...like I'm in line to get this damn sandwich and bro hit my line and I was lost 😂😂😂
— HALL OF FAME BO #29 (@VWEBBJR) November 3, 2019
Who the next coach I get to trash?? pic.twitter.com/DuH3dlBbR9
— N*****damus (@Bignole936) November 3, 2019
I always felt like Willie wasn’t a good leader because he wasn’t a good decision maker and organizer. You don’t need to be an elite football coach to succeed. But you do need to be a good leader.
— Bryan (@IAmBryanBaker) November 3, 2019
I really do feel like tagg got dealt a bad hand with this horrible roster though
— Trigga (@DaRealJavanDEAN) November 3, 2019
I really do feel like tagg got dealt a bad hand with this horrible roster though
— Trigga (@DaRealJavanDEAN) November 3, 2019
Thoughts
I have been one of Willie Taggart’s biggest supporters and I can’t argue with the move to move on from him. I felt the program was making progress after the Louisville and NC State games, but the loss to Wake Forest and Miami are just too much of the same ole same ole.
Just dumb penalties, poor game management and what seems like just unorganized chaos when it comes to game planning and decision making. When a coach loses the fan base and folks stop showing up to games and contributing as boosters the decision is kinda made for them.
The interesting thing is how the FSU administration is going to move forward knowing they will have a new president and athletic director shortly.
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Who are they going to be able to attract to this job? Hang tight FSU football fans, you got what you were asking for.