
CLEAN HOUSE: Florida State Must FIRE Mike Norvell, Tony White, & Multiple Administrators
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Florida State Seminoles spiral deeper into chaos as pressure mounts for a sweeping overhaul. Can firing Mike Norvell and shaking up the administration save this once-storied program? Brian Smith breaks down the Seminoles’ embarrassing loss to SMU, dissecting quarterback Ashton Daniels’ troubling regression, Tony White’s disastrous and complex defensive scheme, and the offensive line’s ongoing collapse.
Key topics include the misuse of transfer-portal talent and the critical need for more booster money to fund NIL deals. Otherwise, Florida State falls further behind powerhouse programs. With diehard fans calling for “clean house” and boosters hesitating to invest, the Seminoles’ matchups against Alabama, Virginia, Louisville, Miami, and Clemson loom large. Will playing Malachi Marshall spark a turnaround? Is FSU’s college football credibility on the line for good? Don’t miss this brutally honest analysis of Florida State’s future.
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But this entire podcast is, who's getting fired? When should they get fired? How do you pay for it? It is the big box stuff that people, unfortunately, you're going to have to deal with. If you're an alum, you're probably going to be getting some phone calls about. Give us money. All of that right here on locked on seminoles. Again, I am Brian Smith. Thank you if you have not joined this channel before. Please like and subscribe. But it's going to be the most blunt podcast we haven't seen any. But I do a Florida StatePod. This is going to be the most blunt one you've ever been a part of. The stats are horrific from last night. They're so bad that I actually made an error last night on the live show. I said Florida State Watts, the turnover battle, 4 to 0. I turned the game off with like one play. I didn't even watch the end of it. The very final drive. I knew that 0% chance to score against that. So why? Why watch the other part of the game? They have no interest in letting Ashton Daniels throw on first down. They don't trust him. He doesn't trust himself. But that's the player, the administration in might know about it, etc.
However, it came about. Getting it up in your lap. And he's regressed, by the way, definitively. I'll talk more about that in about five minutes. But when your quarterback play is that atrocious throwing the football, he's pretty good runner throwing the football. You're not going to be quality teams like SMU. Even when I know it's like the last play, they was a fumble or whatever. I haven't even watched it yet. You were down the entirety of the game, even though you were up 4-0 on turnovers. I count them up as a turnover for the record. It is unfathomable. How bad this team is prepared. How much effort they have. They're a lack of ability to understand Tony White's, let's be honest, very complex scheme. That is brutal. I counted just on the TV copy. Three, three buss just in the first two drives, including the obvious touchdown that the guy is laughing as he runs into the in zone. That's the easiest touchdown he's had since Little League football.
Four to state is a laughing stock. And I'm tired of just talking about what they're, maybe they can do this, maybe they can do it. They find ways to lose that I can't even think about. And this is the only thing I do is dissect 4-0 state in college football. They find new ways to lose that are just unfathomable. And here's the whole area of it. With about five minutes to go, I'm sitting there watching the game and I said to myself, 4-0 state's gonna win this game. They're gonna win this game. They got the ball back. They had a chance. All of that. All this stuff that I just talked about, the horrible decisions. They didn't get the right pass rushers. Obviously, Ashton Daniels is not as good as he should be. And he again, he has a regress. They have not coached him well. And then on top of that, I have no idea what's going on with the coverage because those guys, some of them are experienced. Okay. Ashton Barker, Jabiel Roles to the side. Name somebody else that you trust in any circumstance for 4-0 state,
whether it's linebacker or secondary in a 1-on-1. That are all the athletes that they brought in. It's a joke. Everything about 4-0 state that they did administratively was, in my opinion, a failure so far. And they still should have won the game. But no, of course not. The two times they got the ball back, played in the game, including with 30 seconds, they did nothing. They can't throw the football. They have no ability to throw the football. And you can tell that they don't believe they can either because in the second half in particular, they didn't even try to throw it on first down. What was it like, 20 or 21 out of the 25 plays during the game? They were first, like they ran the ball almost exclusively. Dan's booing constantly, fire Mike Norbell, all of it justified. It's insane. So with that, I'm going to make a few predictions here.
Number one, I hinted at this on the live show last night and I put up the copy again this morning, around nine in the morning. One of the things that I'm very concerned about, because the administration, they're human, they don't want to get fired to or forced out whatever you want to call it, is they're going to use Tony White as a ski coat to try to keep Norbell so they don't have to pay the bill? I'm not going to rant. I'm not going to rave. I'm just going to say this very clearly. If Ford Estate decides to go the quote unquote, less expensive route and rearrange deck chairs on that Titanic, if you think it's bad this year, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It will be far worse next year. Here's why. I received a phone call from an agent this morning. Nobody's going to do business with Ford Estate. That has been made very clear. Number two, there are going to be like any possible media outlet
that has any semblance, any of giving Ford a state hope, that's out. You need media to be on your side. Whether we want to hear it out bias is everywhere in our society, especially politics, but it's really bad. No matter I got another, I got another person calling right now. I'll get back to him in a little bit. But it's unbelievable how bad it is for Ford Estate. They don't have any friends left. It's obvious they made misstep after misstep with the portal. And that is really my realm. That's what I study more than anything else anymore because I run the portal podcast here on the Lockdown Network. And I knew they had some questions, but like, holy cow. Not only do I think they took the wrong players they didn't want to spend, they aren't coaching them very well at specific spots either. What in the world is going on with Ashton Dana? Like he scared to death.
He has to see a guy completely wide open to throw it. You've got to be able to hit guys in rhythm, throw the ball to where they will eventually be. That just doesn't happen. They'll throw an occasional 50 50 ball, what do you go after it? But he doesn't even get enough targets. They did. I'll give them one piece of credit. I've harped on this a lot. They threw a couple of balls in the middle of the field. Well, with the whole, they were wide open and they worked. You have to challenge the middle of the field. Or to stay dinnered a few times, which success, but they still didn't do it enough. It's progress though. I'll give them that. Now, again, I'm really worried that they're going to just to capitate any opportunity to get rid of Norval because of the contract. And they're going to try to push Tony White out and he deserves to be fired. He's awful for whatever reason. He's had success other places. He has. He's had a lot, but it is not working here. Watching their quote unquote coverage is a comedy show.
I don't know what it is. I don't know whose fault it is, but it is still his scheme. They do not understand it. And here's the part that makes me feel very confident in that statement above all as SMU just shredded them with guys running wide open. They did finally do something that fits their personal better. They went cover one cover zero, that kind of stuff. And they decide, you know what? If we're going out, we're going out in style. They were going cover zero in the blitz cover zero. Ashwin Barker smacked Kevin Jennings right under the chin strap. And he threw up the pick down in the end zone. That was cover zero. They were said, you know what? To hell with it. If they scored, they scored. I'm okay with that. But then they use it again later in, you know, lived by the sword, died by the sword. Sweat pattern 79 yards for the score into that end. I want to let's just talk about the coverage because this is what Tony preaches. This is what his defense is based on. Mike Jones, the transfer from Duke. He was pretty solid last year for the Blue Devils.
But I don't think they were asking him to do as much as they are now. And he is not a man to man guy. It is what it is. He probably fits Tony scheme a little better, schematically zone, et cetera. He can't be in one of ones. He's not good enough. PFF grades are part of it, but just watching. That's not a good sign. Max Redmond, I think he'll be a good player for to stay probably never an NFL guy. Not ready. Not ready. CJ Richard, he's okay, but he gave up a couple of touchdowns, according to PFF, take it for whatever it's worth. They picked on Jibrill, but more in screens. I think the target thing on PFF. Take that with a grain of salt. He was listed with nine targets, eight completions. They ginkged and dunked four to state zone, which again was way too soft. Way too soft. There are plays where the safeties are starting at the sticks. The ball is snapped to Kevin Jennings and their five yards behind the sticks. And there's so much depth between the linebacker and the safeties.
It's like the grand canyon to throw into. It's utterly ridiculous. Looking at the third downs, I got it up here eight out of 14 for SMU. Despite 10 quarterback pressures, Jennings, a good athlete now. I give him on a credit, but this is a joke. You decided to ring Tony Whiteback. You decided to go with this very complex scheme. It ain't working. But under no circumstance should myself any other member of the media, any fan, even people that like I'm sure there are Miami fans in here. Hate watching my all means have fun. I would if I was a Miami fan, I get it. There is no acceptance in any realm. None were Mike Norbell is not fired. And he word here and at least one or two key.
Administrative people are going. You signed up for this? Now you're forcing us in the media to cover it. The fan base. I can't imagine being a seasoned ticket holder. Oh, God. I can only imagine how mad they were. That fan base turned out last night pretty good considering. Give them credit on a side note. Fortestates fan base is tremendous. It absolutely is. But they deserve better. Hell, college football fans, even again, four to fans, Georgia fans, Miami teams that have fan bases that hate for the state. They still deserve to watch the game and enjoy it. That was awful. I mean, SMU in its first game tried over and over to hand you the game. You didn't want it. So again, wrong quarterback. The offensive line. Oh, a crap. I'll wait till the next segment to get into that. That's its whole thing. The secondary with Tony white and the linebackers, especially the flat.
They never adjusted. They just can't cover the flat. The curl flat area. We talk about it in every kind of scheme there is cover two, cover three, cover four. Man, somebody's got the curl flat on both sides. If not, it's a bust. And that is what happened over and over again. And that's why again, the brills numbers here on PFF or so. Why so wonky. It's just crazy. Because he wasn't given up a lot of passes, but they just to run underneath. That's what veteran quarterbacks do. So again, while I agree what numerous people online, media, et cetera, it's time for Tony white to go. I get it. He cannot be the substitute in any way, shape, or form for the head coach. Nor the administration got to go multiple people above Tony white in addition to Tony white. Gotta go. This isn't a maybe think about it. Gotta go. And yes, after the break, I'm going to get into this and this is going to make a lot of people mad, but it's true.
Talked about this a little bit last night. Wait. It's about to get Uber expensive. I know that's problem, but you're going down in a desk fire. You got two options really bad and even worse. Pick one. That's where Florida states that I know the money's not great, but this is a joke. Florida state is a laughing stock. Figure it out. Get rid of these people. I'm sure they're great people. I'm sure Mike's a great guy. I'm sure Tony's a great guy. It's not working. Their job is to win football games and not be a laughing stock. What do you think's going on right now? So with that one, when we come back, we're going to talk about the money. We're going to talk about playing Malachi Marshall, some of the other players. Oh, yeah, I'm definitely going to dive into Malachi, Marshall. If you don't know who he is, you're about to find out he's the backup quarterback at Florida state. There's all kinds of things to get into right here on locked on. Today's show is brought to you by game time. College football is full of games you plan for all year, but sometimes the best
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apply need to hire. This is a job for indeed sponsored jobs. It's about the money. I'm going to start with that. Then I'm going to go into Malachai, Marshall. Here it is from my experience covering recruiting, the transfer portal, just from the media side plus being directly involved with seven on seven, directly involved with agents, friends in the coaching fraternity, high school, college, well, trainers, et cetera. This is what I know about rosters. We're going to forget about the coaches for a second. Moving forward, if you want board of state or otherwise, to be a truly elite college football program, and if you wasn't afforded as they fancy, that's what they want. Be careful. Here comes the singer. It's about the money. Your roster needs to be north of $50 million moving forward. FSU is not in the stratosphere of that. And when may be clear, I see this quite often in this confusion about it.
I'm cool with it. Nobody is going to adhere to any kind of salary cap. Ever, ever, ever, ever, they will lie, lie, lie, boosters, et cetera. If you try to set a cap, then it's just going to go back to under the table. There are no exceptions. North of $50 million for the state is not in that stratosphere. They are not. Not for my knowledge. So unless the boosters and stuff really pony up even after all this mess, that's the second part. I'm going to come back to that. This is intentional. Now, Norville's contract from what I last remember in this soft top, my head, 46.9 million is what he's owed after this season. That's a lot. That's problem. I don't know what Tony White and everybody have no idea. I don't know which coaches would be retained by the new staff. All of that, but it's a lot of money. And here's the other crux. I hate this for every program in four to states going to be stuck in this too. The agents have all the leverage when it's a disaster like this. Sure, who'll take the job. However, he has to have at least a seven year guaranteed or more contract.
That's the problem in college football. I'm okay. A four state takes a fire on somebody and takes a five year deal. I am. I'm sick and tired of the agents just forcing it down whether it's for a state or anybody else. They're throat with these contracts. But if you do that, you're not getting a big fish. You may not get one anyway. It's hard. But if you want to avoid these long term contract, an only way to do it is to take an unproven commodity. Just want to say that. And then you still got to hire staff and everything else. And that's really where Mike's problem began when he took the four to stay job. He didn't hire the right staff. How many elite assistants wanted to be with Norbell after he had just been a head coach at Memphis? It's tricky. Hiring the right staff for that particular school is one staff at certain school. Won't work at another oftentimes. It is very tricky. So it's going to be super expensive regardless. Just with the Norbell and you still got to go get another staff. And you may have to get administrators. I have no idea where this money's coming from.
Which I did. I know it's not really fun to hear somebody say, well, you got problems. You need to fix and don't have solutions. But the only solution is throwing money at it. No shortcut here. That's just truth. So if for the state wants to win again, got to get rid of him, got to find somebody. That's debatable. How much you pay some administrators. And now back to the point I did about NIL. What let me explain why this is so important. If any elite coach and up and coming coach are somewhere in between any of those levels. Speak with Florida State about this job. One of the very first questions are going to ask is, what's the NIL? And they should. They know it's the end all be all. If you do not have a definitive plan that is going to talk about the numbers that I was just discussing, you're not going to get anybody. The Florida State administration has screwed over everybody because the expectation over for my conversations with people, like the text that I just got the phone call I just got the phone call I got earlier today.
All of them very bad. Nobody has any faith in Florida State. So if you're at a job where you're making 1.5 million a year, 2 million a year, somewhere as a defense coordinate, whatever it is. Are you going to take up a guaranteed incredible salary at a job where you're winning to risk being the head coach at Florida State in derailing your own career because they won't spend what's necessary. Doesn't matter why. Would you or do you wait another year, coach at that good school, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, whatever it is, and take another gig. This is legitimate question now. The problem for the state has moving forward. Is it the coaching contracts? It's the NIL specifically for players in addition to it. I have no answers for that other than again, there's only one path. If you're going to win big elite money must come by my definition, not the garbage that Michael offered spewed in the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.
And Mr. Bianchi did a great job with that article. It's from three, four weeks ago. Go read it. You can find it easily. You're saying, well, our roster is right below that top. Get the hell out of here. Plane and simple. He lied. Last night's game is further proof of that. Not that the coaching staff did a great job. But do you think Florida State's offensive line is just below top tier? Dear. Her hands good coach, but you can only do so much with what they have. So on that note, two things, we'll talk about Malachi, Marshall, then the offensive line, a little bit about defense and I'll just go into the comments here. You have nothing to lose by at least gaining the knowledge of what Malachi can do. Even if it's just a series or two, I'm not saying for this poor kid to the wolves against Alabama. Let me be very clear. I want to state that again. I do not think it's a good idea to start Malachi, Marshall against Alabama. I don't.
That does not mean that he should not have a package and be be instituted into the game plan. Why would you not? You have no faith in action Daniels. None. There's zero. The play calling is so predictable. If he can't read the field, then why did you go getting? He doesn't fit your offense. Why even entertain controversy? None of it is rational. And he's one of the nicest guys you'd ever meet somebody I really like and rooting for, but he's not very good. Again, he is regressed like definitively. Go watch Ashton Daniels last season against Vanderbilt or Alabama ironically. He was awesome in both games. He was arguably the best player on the field in both games. One guy just got drafted in the first round. The other was the most important player to an individual team, Diego Pavia, because there wasn't college football.
And in both games, Ashton Daniels was equal or better than both, but he comes to Florida state and he can't throw a forward pass. He was 12 of 23 for 125 yards and they wouldn't throw the ball in first down. It is amazing what both. Who's my own Kroma? And Sam Singleton did. You know, I had a few moments that they were okay, but they were just joining for a much of the evening. That in combination with the lack of passing. It's amazing for the state running game. What it's done. I right now, if you said Brian, name your first team, all American running back, it's Kroma. And I'm not saying that because I cover for the state or I like to get. He's going up against it lines. I'm being nice by saying their average. They're not. And there's no passing game to speak of. And he's still slicing and dice that guy's an animal. He's ready for the NFL right now. What a waste. Then you got Sam, who's even more explosive, further.
What a waste. Let's talk about the offensive. Give hand credit. Second half they made to move. They took up, took out way, we made past move to right tackle, blah, blah, blah. They're a little better. But at the end of the day, bear or not, and it's not. If you don't have quarterback play, there's only so much. The O line is going to be able to do. They knew a Aston was mobile and he, he, he could run. Very good athlete. But they just wanted to contain him as much as they could. And to be honest, that's some you didn't do a very good job of that. But they attacked because they knew he was a deer and headlights. That offensive line was overwhelmed with every look. It was the first game for SMU. So you didn't have any film with a new defense coordinator. That was rough. That is the definition of the frying pan right there. Got cooked. I'm curious to see what Ford Estate does. This is just from a football band perspective.
How will Ford Estate's offensive line come out against Bama? Who starts and where? I have no idea what they're going to do. And I'm not going to get into specific names or anything else. Certain guys played better than others, but it's not worth it. I'm going to do a separate show where it is generic with no opinion. I'm just going to go down through the pro football focus numbers. Do offense, defense and be done. You know, institute that more. So we goes on because for those who don't know, Bama games not this upcoming weekend. It's the one after we got plenty of time. But that isn't going to be until like Friday Saturday. There's no reason. There's too many other things big box. We got to talk about right here on a lot of Don Semitals. And the number one thing. It's still getting rid of those people. And here's the last point I'll make on it. Before we go into the portal stuff. Yeah, this is more hammering of the administration, but it is what it is. Ford Estate at a major college football sense about the time Jimbo left.
It is not close out of teams that aspire realistically to win a national championship. Name one team name one team. That has been close to the bottom 12 or that four to state has in recruiting high school offensive one. Name one. Oh, wait. I'll be here forever. There isn't one. And that is just continuously bought time for a few guys here and there because they get a second chance or third chance at Ford State and good for them through the portal. And he perhaps a good player, but he's not a right tackle. He's a right guard. He's better at it. He was solid at times at tackle, but I'm telling you that four game stretch coming up will be interesting Virginia, Louisville, Miami, Clemson. I have no idea how that's going to go other than bad.
They don't have any homegrown talent. That's a week like Andre Otto was a guy that had some talent. He doesn't develop very well. He's the one homegrown guy that starts. He's the left guard through the four to state semifinals. All the rest of portal guys, again, you should never be in this boat. Administratively coaching development anywhere with this many people failing over and over again to recruit a one. It's the hardest spot to develop quickly. So if you miss even like let's say you have a top 20 class, if you signed four alignment and two miss, to be honest, hit 50% is pretty good. It is insanely difficult to project a line. But like right now, Florida State doesn't have an offensive line commitment for the class of 2027. And after seeing what was out there last night, would you want to join this? Why would you? What would the reason be?
I can't imagine being a parent say, Oh, this is a good idea. You'll get in there and play early. Well, is that a good idea? Like I get why kids are not interested. Again, herbs are good coach, but the operation is sinking. Yeah, it's brutal. Finally here before I just go into the chat and thank you to everybody that showed up today, got over 500 people in here. It's even more today than it was last night. The portal additions, I went over a few last night. I want to add to this. Jay one Anderson technically is a recruit because he's a junior college player, but it's similar. Call that whatever you want. He's good player. And I think he's got potential in place hard. Ryle and Kennedy, he had some moments last night, but neither one of them are quote, unquote, for lack of a better term, getting home, really being a menace and they desperately need it. Like every other team, that's, that's not a news flash.
They went out and tried to say these are the guys. This is just further proof that the administration just wide, but it's like you can't get away with that. When what's to be really honest, everybody in their brother knows I'm just going to use Ryle and Kennedy stats for the example. He's the transfer for me and him at a decent night against this. He had a couple of pressures. They didn't have a sack team didn't have a sack. He had a couple of pressures and one stop, couple of herries, one tackle, getting Kevin Jennings at the ground is no joke. But that's not what you pay big money for. For the state, just isn't spinning enough. And that's where the admin is failed to because from what I've heard, and I'm certainly not an expert in this, there are some disjointedness with some of the boosters, the battles end, etc. On and on and on and there's nobody will admit fault typical of humans. And there's not enough money in the kitty to go out and get what's going to be expensive, very expensive.
And that's past rushers. It is Uber expensive to go get him. For say, doesn't have money. Further complicating things moving forward. Don't have money. Uh oh. So that's just another example. Offence, tackle is a train wreck quarterback. Maybe we don't know because Aschons done this year. All we've been asked for next to that for the sake of argument. Receiver, there's some talent, even behind Duce in the Kai. I'm not as worried about that. And it shouldn't be. They absolutely have screwed over the tight infosage. There's talent there. There does not using it's being miscoach mismanaged. The inability on defense to get a pass rush is more money. Having Darrell not play last night didn't help, by the way. Mandrel play, but Darrell did not. The linebacker group is a little bit better, but they can't cover anybody. Not enough money spent there. Secondary is just totally confused. I don't think this is a portal recruiting problem.
They just don't consistently pick up the scheme. And even when they do. There's still some errors in tackling. They're just okay at tackling the time like they're physical, but they're not consistent. So many little things. It's like death by a thousand cuts in the secondary. And then occasionally you get a guy that's wide open and scoring the first touchdown of the game for the S even mustangs. But I digress on that too. So four to states portal efforts. They're administrative efforts. The ineptitude at like the most mismanaged spot on the roster right now. It's quarterback again. Ashton has regressed. Norval. It's been past time for Norval to get fired. Firemite Norval, Firemite Norval, Firemite Norval. All of that is true, but it starts at the AD level and up. Because even if you fire Norval, do you want those people hiring the next coach? It's all about the firings. Got to find the money. You're going to have to figure it out.
Now I'm going to dive into the chat. Just randomly there are gazillion comments in here. And thank you to everybody that took the time to do this today. But here we go. This is hilarious. Nick Comfort states, could we just cease football operations for a year or two and work on us? I'm guessing this is tongue in cheek, but no, that's not how it works. The ACC may not like that much. Bake 9100. Firemite now. You know what? Start planning for next season. We have been an absolute joke ever since the snub. And honestly, Norval has never fully recovered from it. Clean house time posted the day for bake 9100. I agree. Let's see. Got a lot of people either really want coach prim or really don't not going to touch that with the 10 foot pole. But that battle will never end before to stay people.
Oh, this is an interesting one. Deep water 1301. This is a Miami fan. You all should go pull lastly from SMU. I've mentioned this before. But I'm going to go ahead and say this. There is no way that's going to happen. It's comfy to live in the Dallas suburbs. The wife's going to like that a lot better than telehassy more than likely. And they got a ton of money. They got more and four to stay does. I highly doubt SMU is going to lose last week. Death I should maybe do the NFL, but I don't see anything else. David Spingler. We looked on discipline, uncouched and uncordated in all aspects. Aim into that. KW says, I hate seeing the players look deflated. They take on Norval's energy, which sucks. Man. That's tough. Yeah, blame the players and what the garbage.
Oh, so we got an idiot racist in here. That's great. Garbage, whitehead coach off the hook. Who is this moron? Kali, fleedog. Yeah, you are a fleek. Get the hell out of here. You're moron. John S. John Simcox. At this point, you're retarded if you donate a penny to this program. That's on all for it. This is costing us far more than 50 million. We owe that douche coach. Ed simply states, Norval is terrible. Andre Bugs, four to state is turned into a basketball school. Host of the day. Oh, what a what an idiot for these people. I'll tell you what, it's got to be hard. The idiots that come in here, Andre, that's a great post. And say stuff and then you get one of these and it just reminds you that people are smart. That's four to say might be.
It's a lot cheaper and they got a coach that actually wants to be here. He's a hell of a coach. King Ebenezer have to fire Mike Morval now. Who doubt about that? Um, let's see. I highly doubt this is the case, but it would be hilarious. Michael Craig at this year is going to hire many D.S. I think Duke is the right fit for Manny. He's too white collar in my opinion to recruit. I just don't think he can do it. I don't. I don't think he can handle recruiting kids from the other side of the tracks. I think he's too white collar. Another DJ you talking about action. I don't know if he's as bad as DJ. Ashing get a he's run like he's an animal with the football on his hands. I like him doing that. You can't read an events. The actual coaches we can get and can recruit while developing players. Jim Bo Fisher. I don't know about that.
To the idiot brigade taking shots at white people randomly, you can kiss my ass. Um, constructively, how does a team remedy financial issues such as this? I'm not, I'm not really sure. Because this is just boosters donating to my knowledge. I don't know what else you can do. That's not my realm, but it's the most important question of the day. Don't know what it is. Yeah, it is very difficult. Johnson Cox, year seven, good Lord. Kind of hard to argue with that too. Auto rocket. Everything Bobby built is being torn down by Mike. Get this clown out of here. Bruce Anderson, if Mike Norbells fired, who in rooms or do they get a higher in place before they fired?
That's a really good question too. There are a lot of ways they could do that. I think it would be internal. Oh, no, Higgins is the obvious pick. But there could be other people at, I don't know, but it's really hard to get somebody like who would, who would take it in the middle of the year? Everybody's coaching. That's why in season, in season firings are rough immediately, but it signals everybody, hey, we're trying to fix this. We're trying to go out and get somebody. I don't know the best answer to that though. It's, it's pretty rough. It is pretty rough. If, what I'm about to put on the screen, if this happens, you will see an even worse podcast. No. Instant classic 3057 says Brian Kelly. Hell no. Maybe Dion will come if we beg him.
I don't know. I don't know, Dion, I've met him, but I don't, I don't know him. I don't know what his motivation is. Seems pretty happy to call it out of them. Same singleton had more tackles than mandrel to sear did in 41 snaps. Is that true? I really look at the distance. That's where it is. Oh. I feel the booze and fire Mike Norbell chance happened last year. We'd have a new coach. Last night, it was obvious commentators on ESPN, Rolette and a rip. It was there. Now the players are getting hammered to Derek Rick, the deceeres are trash. Ouch. I love the people always skipping our baseball team and say we're a basketball school. That's because everybody wants to win any of their basketball football. Baseball's got to win a title though. They want to really hop up that bandwagon.
If we somehow beat Bama, Norbell will keep his job and I will get my master somewhere else so I can have a team to watch. So how much money did you think Indiana spent? Norbell's still not the coach to turn the program around. So tell me what is specifically in turning programs around. What's number one, everybody's got to be on the same point, which Ford state is not. Nobody will accept any blame. They brought in a sign that he who's got 35 years of experience in coaching. Still a risk isn't coached P4, but I'm an Indiana alum. That school is loaded with the right kind of boosters. Ford state is not. So if they need a player behind this thing, they can get it. They want to retain somebody they can do it. They got the highest pay defense coordinator college football now. Brian Hayes. Indiana's loaded number one is money. There's just no shortcut around that. Let's see here. If Norbell beats Bama, DeBoer has gone and Schuman is getting the Alabama job after the season.
Clint Schuman is the head coach somewhere. I would imagine either after this year. Next he is the Georgia linebacker coach and defense coordinator. He's curvy's right in man. Ford state would be fortunate to have him. Let's see. Oh, wow. There is no way this is happening, but it's hilarious. Bobby Patrino is the sweeper guy on that note. Okay, that's a good way to end. Well, you know, I got to have a better post than that to end this on. That is awful. This is a better one. Jose Cruz, I always said it since year one might go about what I was going to do. He's always been a phony. I don't think he's the right guy. This is a good one too. Andre Bugs, what's up? Andre Tony got exposed last season. He should have been fired after the Ford game. They ran all over FSU. There's no doubt. With that, thank you to everybody that checked out locked on Seminole's again today. I'm going to do. I'm going to do.
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