FSU Football: Odell Haggins should get coaching job if Noles beat Florida

FSU Football knows they are still in the market for a full time head coach – and if their current interim coach gets a third straight win, the job is his.

For the second time in the last three seasons, the FSU football team used their final game inside Doak Campbell Stadium to solidify their spot in a postseason bowl game in a big way – with a blowout victory over an inferior foe with Odell Haggins leading the way as the interim head coach of the Seminoles.

For the final two games of the 2017 season and the last two games of the 2019 campaign, Haggins as been the interim man in charge after one coach abandoned the team and another was fired way too soon – and in that time, all Haggins as done is win each game.

Call him “4 and 0-dell” of you want, but the leader of the FSU football team right now has a resume in charge that has two wins to qualify for a bowl game as well as the last bowl win the Seminoles have. Now, he prepares for his toughest test on November 30th on the road at the hated rival Florida Gators.

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Since there is no news on the head coaching hire front at the moment, it seems like the perfect time to tell everyone what should take place: if the Seminoles do come out on top against the Gators, Odell Haggins should be hired as the full time head coach.

It’s an idea that has gained steam after last week when many of the players took to social media and voiced their support for the man who has bled garnet and gold more than almost anyone else to graduate from the school. From All-American on the field to over a quarter century as an assistant, Haggins is Mr. Florida State.

If Haggins can get his fifth win as the head coach of the Seminoles, his resume will add a rivalry win over a team that likely is on track for a New Years Six bowl game in a game in which the Noles are going to come in as a heavy underdog – further adding to the legacy of the man leading the team.

I know there is plenty of big money booster love still waiting for Bob Stoops or someone hot from last decade to come back and take the money, but why not Odell? What does he not have that is so there for every one else? He was an assistant for two national title teams and has bailed the Seminoles out two of the last three seasons.

More importantly, players want to play for him and seem to play harder. They know that when he talks the talk, he has walked the walk before and they trust him – something that didn’t always seem to be around for the last two full time head coaches.

I’m not saying that he would get the job if the Noles come out on top – and I’m still not saying the Noles avoid being swept in back to back seasons against the in-state rivals since the mid-1980s – but the question is that if he “5 and 0-dell, why not?