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What explains FSU's downtrend?

Much like us they failed to invest in the program when it won it all. Bad management invests when thing are bad. Good management invests when things are good.
 
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They had a generational coach for some 3 decades, then another top coach in Jimbo fell into their lap. So when things for chippy and they ran ole Jimbo out of town, I guess they assumed that they could hire whoever and win a chip with them.

We found out the same way that great coaches are hard to come by. Howard, Jimmy, Erickson, and Butch was pure luck, and we found out, just like the same as they are now.

Now they are stuck paying buyouts and even worse is that most top coaching candidates don’t want anything to do with that program. Remember they had a hard time finding the replacement for Willie.

This cycle will keep going for them until they get their ducks in a row and throw money at a top coach/candidate.
 
That article on FSU's demise is really well done. It is loaded with the true reasons the program has faltered badly. It's a great read and a must read for any CFB fan. FSU will have a very hard time digging out of its current situation. The end of the Fisher era combined with Taggert's epic failure there, have really left them in a hole.
 
LPK2006 said:
IMO a lot of it for them is a culture issue. We have some of that too but I think it might actually be worse there. The issue was there even when they were good.....Crab Legs covered up a lot of it and pulled out games for them. **** Al Golden should have had a win against them.
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**** Al Golden had a chance to beat them 2 times. If Berrios caught that TD catch right before the half in 2014 then we definitely would have won that one. The next year up in Trailerhasser we played them good and were so close to beating them. If Dalvin didn’t run all over us that year and the next year in 2016 when Badgley missed the XP to tie it up we had a really good chance to have won 3 in a row against them and that was right before current winning streak so with that it would be 8 in a row currently.
 
This article brings up two things i think about. One is getting that real deal QB. The part about Francios (however he spells it) brings that into focus and with other issue. Are your blue chips the Ed Reed type who want to keep fighting like **** to get better and succeed or the guys who got 4 stars and got a scholarship but aren’t really “engaged” as the article puts it. Talent without engagement is not good. The stars don’t measure desire to fight to grow.
 
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