FSU football: Mike Norvell looking for more from Tuesday’s practice

FSU football got back to practice Tuesday after scrimmaging for the first time on Saturday. Mike Norvell wasn’t satisfied with practice overall, and I can’t say I’m surprised that’s the case.

Mike Norvell said Saturday’s scrimmage was among the best he’s been around, so it was human nature for a program not accustomed to winning to fail to keep that standard.

I’m surprised it took this long for Mike Norvell to say a practice didn’t meet expectations. I suppose we can take it as a positive it took for spring camp to be halfway over before it happened.

I remember Jimbo Fisher used to do this like clockwork to try and get his players to respond and push to get to a higher level.

As I’ve mentioned on the podcast, Norvell is usually candid, and he wasn’t ticked off or anything. He indicated they had some good flashes and some players had a good day.

However, it was more along the lines of a coach understanding the power of consistency with this group. The ability to consistently do the little things well will make a big difference overall. It’ll likely be the difference in winning and losing several 50-50 games FSU football will have on the schedule in 2022. That could be the difference between finishing 6-6 and 8-4, and those two results would produce drastically different reactions. I’m not concerned, but I’m interested in how they will respond at the next practice opportunity.

I don’t recall any instance of Norvell not being satisfied with practice and the team not responding in a positive way. If the next time he speaks to the media, he continues to voice they didn’t reach his standard? Then I’d be surprised. Maybe Tuesday was a culmination of having a great scrimmage and relaxing, and FSU hosting its NFL Pro Day? We’ll know in a couple of days.