Posts

Thanksgiving snapshot thoughts on Noles/Bucs/Magic/Bolts

Image
       Thanksgiving feels like as good a time as any to take the temperature on these 4. The Seminoles are 1 game away from completing their regular season, the Buccaneers are entering the final third of theirs, and the Bolts and Magic are about a quarter of the way through each of theirs.      Same format as the NFL-snapshot article. No fancy intro, just want to get into the meat of these 4 and where things stand (spoiler: cautious optimism for 3 of them, pure frustration and apathy for the other).      Let's get the unpleasant part out of the way first.... Florida State Seminoles Time for a Change but can't Pay the Bill      After the NC State game went final, one thought kept living rent free in my head: "I just want this to be over". I was ready after Stanford, and then Clemson and NC State just further enhanced that feeling.      I really like Mike and still supported him after the abysmal 2024 season, ...
Post a Comment
Read more

FSU, is it time for a change? The case for and against

Image
       Where to begin. Crazy to think that just 3 weeks ago, this team was top 10 in the country and had ACC title and playoff aspirations. Mike Norvell was firmly off the hotseat, Castellanos was an early Heisman candidate, and the new coordinators appeared to be true game-changing hires. Fast-forward to today, and the narrative has flipped on it's head. 3 straight losses has the fanbase raising their pitchforks and discussing buyout economics once again. Hopes of playoffs and conference titles can be kissed goodbye, and expectations have been re-adjusted (in the bad way) to now wondering if this will even be a bowl-eligible team or if it's even a top-3 team in the state.      I've been a Norvell supporter from the beginning, but Saturday was the first time I began to seriously question if he was still the right man to steer the ship or if the guy was in over his head. It's becoming tiring to continually lose to programs that we should beat on paper a...
Post a Comment
Read more

Noles/Bucs/Bolts/Magic: A 4 in 1 Season Recap and Offseason Preview

Image
      Another football/basketball/hockey season has come and gone, and the long wait to Labor Day weekend now commences. I wouldn't say it was the worst year possible, 3 of the 4 did make the playoffs after all, but "disappointing" could be a fair adjective considering FSU had one of its worst seasons in school history and the other 3 all suffered first-round exits. I feel like if you have 4 teams, at least one of them reaching the second round of the playoffs is not an unreasonable ask.       But that's life sometimes. For the Seminoles, everything that could go wrong pretty much did, as they followed up a 13-0 regular season with a horrendous 2-10 season. The Bucs managed to win the division for a 4th consecutive year, but then saw their season end in heartbreaking fashion as Washington barely squeaked in a game winning field goal in the final seconds (it hit the post and bounced in) to sink Tampa's ship. Orlando had bigger goals in mind when the season b...
Post a Comment
Read more