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Dejected after last season’s omission from the College Football Playoff, players and coaches were left spiraling in a myriad of disappointment — and Florida State hasn’t shaken the lingering hangover.
The 60-point Orange Bowl loss to Georgia that’s plastered on signs across the weight room was supposed to summon the thirst for vengeance and vindication after Florida State was left out of the playoff, which folks in Tallahassee dub ‘the Snub,’ — capital ‘S,’ yes, it’s that serious. There was a rush to flood the NIL coffers, there was of course an at-large sit-out of at least 25 scholarship players of one of college football’s most prestigious bowls, there was mass hysteria regarding a Disney conspiracy theory, with multiple ESPN personalities, namely Kirk Herbstreit, under fire as persona non grata. There was, and is, the lawsuit to try and get out of the ACC, which Florida State thought was too slow to condemn the committee’s choice to put Alabama in over an undefeated, albeit quarterback-less, Seminoles team.
All bark, no bite. (And put your spears down — for the record, I thought the Noles should have been a playoff team.)
After Georgia Tech’s gut punch in Ireland, paired with Monday night’s bow out at home against Boston College, the nausea and restlessness has returned to Tallahassee. But there’s nobody else to blame now. What started as a bad dream materialized into a likely fatal blow on the 2024 season. You have to imagine certain members of the ACC’s brain trust are snickering that two “inferior” programs handed the Seminoles nationally-televised losses. Meanwhile, Mike Norvell is picking up the pieces of a shattered team with no sense of direction or identity.
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Author : Brad Crawford
Publish date : 2024-09-03 14:43:38
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