FSU Football must be realistic about itself for rest of coaching search

FSU football can not have any pipe dreams about what the program once was if it wants to get back to that point and find the right coach to take them there.

It’s been just over one weeks since the FSU football team decided to move on from head coach Willie Taggart – though some could argue he never had their full support after being fired just 21 games into his tenure – and in the days since, we have heard so many numerous named mentioned about possible replacements.

I mean, we’re talking about realistic names like…Urban Meyer….and Bob Stoops…and maybe the most logical option in former Seminoles star defensive back…Deion Sanders! Yes, that’s right – the fans and boosters of the Seminoles seem to have a true grasp on what it’s going to take to get back to the dynasty era from decades ago.

In fact, the powers that run the FSU football program don’t have much of a clue considering the fact that this will be just the second hire made in over four decades – a problem when you add the fact that fans and boosters seem to not realize that the Noles are truly in a crisis mode and need to admit it.

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All we’ve heard this past week from the most vocal critics of Taggart is that he didn’t live up to the “standard” of Seminoles football – a standard of top five finishes and titles that largely came during a 14 year period that ended with the 2000 season…nearly two decades ago.

In the 18 completed seasons since then, the Noles have finished with five losses or more a total of seven times – damn near close to half of the time, for those non math majors. Too much credit is given to the dominance of the 2013 national title team and not enough admittance to the fact of the downhill slide that followed.

The worst thing that took place was a 10-3 record in the 2016 season – a year where three of those wins were by a combined six points – that masked the true problems the Seminoles were dealing with when it came to everything from recruiting to discipline to on field performance.

I love interim head coach Odell Haggins and pray that he can get the Seminoles back to a bowl game this season, but there is too much false hope based off the fact he did the same thing in 2017 – by beating a bad Louisiana Monroe team and an average Southern Miss team in the bowl game.

If fans of FSU football want a chance to return to the glory days, we need to admit the following statement: the Seminoles are not a good team right now. They have the talent and potential to get back to that point, but this is not the team of the late 1980s or 1990s, no matter how badly we want them to be there.

We aren’t getting a Meyer or a Primetime – we need to be content, at the moment, with a quality coach like Kentucky’s Mark Stoops or Memphis head coach Mike Norvell and…this part is important…GIVE THEM MORE THAN 21 GAMES TO TURN AROUND THE DUMPSTER FIRE THAT WE CURRENTLY ARE!

Admitting we are now – not what we once were and what some fans and boosters in a delusional way still think we are – is the only way to get back to the dynasty era we once were at.