FSU Football: Impact of players leaving FSU football program
The long term impacts
Examining the long term impacts of the departures of Terry, Blackman, and Wilson becomes tremendously harder to predict than the short term.
However, I have ultimately concluded that even though those three student-athletes were leaders in their own right, they still carried the weight of a thousand men. In turn, this caused them to struggle and led players within the locker room not to trust them.
Not only this, but it cost them the fans that had once hoped that they would be the ones to save them. The negativity that was breed while these players were at FSU created a horrible “culture” that needs to be changed.
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It won’t happen overnight, but the rebuild is now at the start of a long tunnel. We can see a glimpse of light but need to work on moving towards it.
The roster space that has been freed up by not only these players who are no longer going to be apart of the team come next year, but those who were removed or transferred before this created room for head coach Mike Norvell to get his players into the program.
Whether that comes from the transfer portal or from recruiting, it will take time. Nothing is fixed overnight.
However, with the right staff in place to go out and get the “right” guys for this newly revived program and those players, in turn, rewarding there coaches by making the right play – on and off the field – the ‘Noles will look back at this moment as a changing point in their history.