Florida State's newest coaching hire already endearing himself to fanbase

Florida State football fans have had it tough over the past two years. They suffered the College Football Playoff snub in December 2023, a 2-10 season in 2024, and a 5-7 season in 2025. There hasn’t been much to cheer about, aside from a huge upset win over Alabama to open the 2025 season.

FSU fans have blamed everyone. Michael Norvell, Michael Alford, players who threatened to enter the transfer portal, and some of the other FSU position coaches.

Some of the latter have not handled the fervor of the Florida State fan base well, especially on social media. However, the newest Florida State coaching hire seems to have figured out it’s best to have the fans on his side.

New Special Teams Coordinator, Adam Scheier, posted this on his social media account on Monday:  

Florida State fans love two things: People who want to be in Tallahassee and represent the FSU program to the best of their ability, and people who produce at a high level.

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Coach Scheier has the first part down pat. However, he has the responsibility of fixing a special teams unit that was mediocre in 2025, and for most of Mike Norvell’s tenure, aside from 2023 and 2024.

If he can get that unit to play consistently.  If they make the routine field goals, field punts successfully, and occasionally provide a big return here and there? If the punter can flip the field when they need it most? If they can do what feels like the bare minimum, considering the talent they have access to? He will remain in the good graces of the fanbase.

If the special teams phase of the team continues to look like hot garbage? It won’t be long before he feels the wrath of the same Florida State fans showing love.

It's not fair, but that's the name of the game when coaching at a place like Florida State.