Coach would have been better just to not say anything. Wasn’t it FSU who ‘shopped the image over MLK a few years ago, and created a mini-scandal?
He misread the room. Standing up against murder isn't a virtue, it is the bare minimum structure of a human society. Thou shalt not kill. The 2 dimensional virtue signaling stuff is a damn risky move at this point in time.
He didn't tell that reporter that he meet with every individual player because he was standing up against murder. He lied about it to virtue signal to the public. If only his black players would have kept their mouth shut about his lie. No one likes what happened to Floyd or supported that cop from what I saw.
Jesus. Has there been a more dysfunctional locker room in America over the last 5 years? Norvell obviously in the wrong here for doing one thing and parading around as if he’d done another. But damn...how do you take this kind of obvious division and set it all aside to focus in unity on a common goal, in a matter of weeks. Train wreck.
And this on the heels of FSU firing a black HC after not even giving him two full seasons on the job. (I think he deserved to be fired, but it makes the optics even worse.)
Coaches that lie to their players don't tend to get much buy-in. They should seriously consider cutting ties now.
Problem is buying him out now could bankrupt them after all the lost revenue from covid, on top of the Taggart buyout. I suppose they could argue that it’s for cause, but I imagine Norvell would sue if they did.
Who would they then get, on the heels of firing Taggart in >2 seasons, hiring / firing this guy for lying and crushing the locker room, all while being sued / suing him on the way out the door? They’re stuck together, IMO.
Yep. The only realistic option for FSU right now is to pray that he can dig himself out of this hole.
Some people wondered why he wasn't given a shot at a big job sooner. Turns out, it was because he is [uck fay]ing stupid.
