FSU Football: 3 reasons to have patience with Coach Mike Norvell
By Cole Maines
We take a look at the progression of FSU Football under the current staff.
Your honor, if it pleases the court, I would like to make my opening statements.
The FSU football fanbase’s Saturday couch coordinators and recliner recruiters need to put a sock in it. You guys are talking about wanting to fire someone eight games into a season. (A bad eight games, but still eight games on the job).
A year zero season with no capabilities to recruit from the high school ranks and barely a chance to recruit his team. Let’s go back to where this all started. Jimbo Fisher quit on FSU football midseason in 2017.
This situation comes after a highly touted quarterback suffers a debilitating injury, and James Blackman, a project type, is thrust into the spotlight and gets his bell rung every week from then and on.
Then we can neither recruit at key positions well nor develop talent, and that brings us to today. The fanbase is talking about firing a third head coach in four years while paying a Willie Taggart buyout.
It is not feasible to create lasting success with no stability at head coach. At a certain point, we have to stick with someone and let them work out the kinks to turn this program around.
Another firing will not help the players or the program to improve in the short term. The only thing it spells is more turmoil for a program that is the worst it’s been in 40 years.
In housing market terms, this isn’t a rehab or fixer upper. This situation is a teardown and rebuild, and you cant do either with a revolving door surrounding the leadership in your program.
Now let’s go into specific reasons why this fanbase needs to take a chill pill.