FSU football: 3 concerns from cancellation of spring activities

Player Accountability

Arguably, the biggest issue over the past half-decade for FSU football has been player accountability, especially during the spring and off-season.

The players have experienced a new beginning with this new coaching staff. They are learning a new level of accountability, but how much of that will be retained now that spring activities have been canceled.

Will the players be motivated to put in the work on their own not knowing when practices will resume?

Think about it, it would be incredibly easy for a teenager to decide to take a few days off, and then that turns into a week or two or longer, right? Have they been exposed enough as a whole to refrain from falling back into bad habits from the past couple of seasons?

Now, coaches will know when they return who worked out on their own and who didn’t. I’m sure that was stressed by the coaching staff before they departed for the break.

Will players use this time to dive into their playbooks on offense and defense? Have they been exposed enough to new expectations to motivate themselves when coaches and other teammates are not around?

Time will tell when things get back to normal, but this is a critical juncture for Mike Norvell and staff that they ultimately can’t control.

Hopefully, they’ve instilled enough in the nine or 10 weeks players will want to get one percent better each day whether they are at practice with the team or working out individually back home.