Why do their paychecks matter? It's not like Mario making what he makes gives him less resources than Norvell or another coach gets because more of the money is allocated to the coach's pockets. I completely get what you're saying but IMO a coach is a coach. If you pay him $8M, if you pay him $5M, his job is to win. If some other aspect of the program was lacking because we're allocating more money to Mario personally, then I think that becomes a much more valid argument, but I don't think that's the case.
Norvell also inherited a program that had won a national championship 7 years prior, and was in the playoffs 6 years prior. Obviously Jimbo torched that place on his way out, and Taggart was a clueless boob, but it's not like he was resurrecting a dormant program. Miami hasn't been good for 20 years. IMO the curve is the same...these are traditionally proud programs in the same conference and state who compete for the same kids. Win or GTFO. Same as Billy in Gainesville, or any other coach at any of these schools.
One thing I will say though is it looked like FSU was getting better in the 2nd half of 2021. They were a laughingstock in 2020, and then started 2021 0-4, and we all were in heaven. But they won some games down the stretch of 2021 (including getting Manny fired), and looked to have some momentum into 2022. We are going the opposite way, or at least just sputtering. We looked great early, we should've beat GT, we got beat by UNC, we were all excited about beating Clemson (as we should've been), and then the last 2 weeks were just offensive duds, so here we are again. Still have 3 games left to play that will tell a lot about this story, but yeah finishing the year on a 5 game run of beating a terrible UVA team in OT and then losing 4 in a row kills every ounce of goodness the first part of the season built. And then some.
