FSU is a dumpster fire right now, we have all the momentum. Alumni be dammned why would he leave?
And if does best of luck to him, he is very replaceable
FSU is far from a "dumpster fire".
If anything, they'd have been more of a disaster if Fisher stayed—but a clean start with Taggart is just what they needed.
Loaded with talent and started the season No. 3 before Franciois went down and the wheels fell off.
Taggart can assemble a good staff and get that ship righted pretty quickly. Wishful thinking to say the program has reached dumpster fire-status.
As for Dugans, Tallahassee born-and-raised, FSU alum, grad assistant there a decade ago and came to Miami from South Florida two years ago after working on Taggart's staff.
Would love for him to stay at Miami, but if roles were reversed and this was a Cane and 305 native on FSU's staff thinking about coming home, no matter what the state of the program—everyone would expect them to return if asked.
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***gart was hired on December 5, and negotiated with f$u for several days before signing on. In the nearly three weeks since ***gart knew he was taking the job, he has only a handful of confirmed coaching hires: (1) Telly Lockette, TE coach; (2) Donte Pimpleton, RB coach; and (3) Raymond Woddie, Defensive Assistant. That's it. He has struck out on Mario Cristobal and Jim Leavitt (and God knows who else). And Randy Sanders ran off to become head coach at East Tennessee State.
So in perhaps the most important year in all of the modern college football era for a transitioning head coach to quickly assemble his staff for recruiting purposes, ***gart managed to fill 3 low-level positions in 3 weeks by hiring a TE coach, a RB coach, and a Defensive Assistant. Ostensibly, he should also be game planning for that bowl game f$u should be ineligible for (The Ineligi-BOWL?). At that rate, he'll be lucky to have his full staff assembled by February 7, 2018.
Meanwhile, less than 1/3 of 247's Top 101 2018 recruits remain unsigned, and most p5 schools have at least twice as many signed commits as f$u. ***gart has a total of 6 kids signed and only 4 more oral commitments (one of which, Meadows, is reportedly visiting Miami on the last weekend before National Signing Day). As of right now, f$u has the N0. 34 recruiting class in the nation. UM, on the other hand, has the No. 5 class and has 19 recruits signed. USF picked up 18 signatures. Lowly UiF -- also in a coaching transition -- has 13 recruits in. UCF also got 13 signed. ****, even FIU managed to get 16 kids signed!
But it's worse than that! F$u has 17 graduating seniors. Derrick Nnandi, Matt Thomas, Jacob Pugh, Trey Marshall, and Ermon Lane (ha!) are gone. Juniors Josh Sweat and Derwin James have both already declared for the NFL draft. Juniors Jacques Patrick, Demarcus Christmas, and Tarvarus McFadden remain undecided.
Basically, ***gart is a corch sitting by his window sill watching all the good coaches and recruits get signed away, and he's too soft/inexperienced/dumb to do anything about it. F$U is a dumpster fire.
