True. I did make it too simplistic.
Even still Taggart this year hired apparent offense guru Kendall Briles and a good defensive coach in Jim Leavitt. If you go through the staff (Haggins, Dugans, Briles, Leavitt, Barnett, Clements, Lockette) he has today Taggart's staff is arguably on paper (not in reality) better than Miami's by a significant margin. So Taggart put together a good staff, got players to go to class, and recruited in the 10-20 range and went 9-12 in his short time at FSU. He took over a 7-6 team trending down.
I agree Taggart hasn't had the team looking better. Jimbo left the program very talented on paper (only at certain positions) but he had checked out and a lot of players had checked out too. Taggart took over Dec. 5 of 2017. Which means the 11th ranked 2018 recruiting class was not his. The 2019 class is the only class Taggart has that would be "his" players. The FSU football academics problem is also something almost everyone overlooks, FSU was an embarrassment and close to having academics affect how they ran their football program.
2019 is essentially the first year Taggart actually has any chance at laying the foundation for his future state of the program and he is gone before the end of the season. Unless a team is promoting from within (like Ohio State) fans and boosters alike should expect a rebuild. The change in culture requires players to change or GTFO, and neither has happened at FSU. Schizophrenic leadership and management changes don't create stable winning programs. Boosters run FSU now. I hope they find a new shiny toy, give him a 25 million dollar buyout, and 20-30 games in can his *** for not getting them ranked in the top 10. Maybe this new coach can keep all the faux tough guy players and publicly state "this isn't a rebuild" too, that would be perfect.