What an original post. Thanks.
I mean it's not off base.
Dude was 3-6 year one, started year two 0-4 with a home loss to Jacksonville State and was again 3-6 entering the Miami game that fall—6-12 career at that point.
Eked out the win over Miami, beat Boston College, lost to a garbage Florida team and finished 5-7 year two.
By that point their fans were seething and were talking buy-out but couldn't afford it as they paid Taggart so much to go away.
A few average recruiting classes by that point, hit the portal hard and wound up a fugazi 10-3 last year—losing to the only three ranked team the Seminoles played—and gifted a 6-6 Oklahoma team for a bowl game, which they barely won.
Now they're 9-0 year four as Jordan Travis—who looked like a total bozo in 2021—is a Heisman candidate and has FSU on a 15-game win streak.
The difference between these two teams is literally a quarterback. Miami would be 9-0 or 8-1 right now if Van Dyke was merely playing decent and not like hot garbage; one interception his first four games and 10 his last three starts.
Pïssing and moaning about year two coaching when the issue is literally a damaged goods quarterback is nonsensical.