Michael Alford returns to social media, ignores angry FSU football fans

Michael Alford made his long-awaited return to X (fka Twitter) and FSU fans are steamed.

The embattled Seminoles athletic director chose not to talk about happenings with the football program or to preach patience with the men's basketball program, but rather to respond to a soccer tweet that's a month old.

If there's someone more unpopular than Mike Norvell is with FSU football fans right now, it might be Alford. His lack of real substantial action as the Seminoles program has fallen into the abyss has been a major source of frustration for the fanbase. 

There is also the belief that the statement Alford made about evaluating the football program after the loss to Stanford was just a bunch of empty words. This comes on the heels of Miami reaching the College Football Playoffs and Florida dumping Billy Napier after struggling to make a dent in the SEC.

Norvell has had more success at FSU than Napier had at Florida and the Seminoles should've made the CFP in 2023. But since then, the program has gone into free fall and fans view Alford's inaction on Norvell as a sign of complacency.

So for Alford to return to social media to simply dunk on a month-old tweet about soccer feels like a troll job to many or maybe a reminder that FSU athletics has won a national championship under his watch, and he's not the failure that he's perceived to be. 

The fan response to Alford's tweet is overwhelmingly negative

FSU fans are not the group to hide how they feel, so the responses to Alford's return to social media were about what you would expect. Here's a sample of some of the ones that are suitable for print.

There are others that are far more graphic and descriptive, but you get the point. If there is a suggestion for Alford, it's that FSU fans want to believe that he's as disappointed in Seminoles football as they are. Maybe he is, but it doesn't feel that way. 

Some moves have been made. FSU football has a new General Manager and additional front-office personnel, but, unless more success follows, it just feels like using a band-aid to heal a broken arm. 

If the Seminoles continue down this path in football, big moves will have to be made. There's already major questions about whether Alford has the skill level to make the right moves. His actions on social media do nothing to ease those concerns.