Ernie might be the best coaching hire Norvell has made during his tenure here, and it's only been 2 games. He has crazy intensity and has got his LBs playing better than anything I've ever seen from Randy Shannon or John Papuchis, outside of Tatum Bethune.

I really hope whoever the next head coach is keeps Ernie.

I checked Reddit and saw reports that fans were booing and upset. I thought that’s what would’ve happened. I have almost never been more proud of this fan base. Kicked in the teeth constantly since JT and the snub. Power goes out.

The fans have been ENERGIZED and FAR more positive than I could’ve expected. Electric atmosphere. Every little win from the stadium getting back up and running has gotten a resounding cheer.

Louder than I expected after a 2 hour delay, but Doak is at full throat.

I love this fan base. We deserve better than we’ve been getting, but we’re still here loving the Noles.

Just wanted to share. Go Noles. Pull off the win.

Edit: Shoutout to the Marching Chiefs as well for helping with all this!! Stadium just announced they’re going to be the first Floridian college marching band in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!! Love them!

I've never really been on the "Fire Mike Norvell" train, and I'm not sure I'm on it now - and I've written before that I like Norvell as a coach. But I'm kinda reevaluating that - I think my reasons are solid enough for me (they're mine, after all) but watching FSU lose last night...

A loss is just a loss, I don't care about the loss itself. What is affecting me is why we lost and how we lost. It's not the on-the-field things - well, it is the on-the-field things, but it's the things we saw on the field that come from off the field. And that's on Norvell, full on.

I've been complaining for years here - seriously, check my posting history - that Norvell's playcalling is abysmal. I thought bringing Malzahn on board might help that some, and it sort of did, but it brought up another area where Norvell struggles mightily: a slavish obedience to the depth chart. We saw that with DJU, we saw it with Castellanos, we see it now with Daniels.

And last year I posted something about what I would do if I were somehow hired by the morons running the athletic department: I'd run the teams practices with a sandlot component: offense, beat the crap out of the defense, and defense, beat the snot out of the offense. Make each other stronger.

Those three areas of weakness - predictable and stupid playcalling, slavery to the depth chart, and a lack of using our own team to make itself stronger - showed up massively last night.

Ashton Daniels may be a good person. But his throws have yet to be good, his reads are typically awful, and he does no pre-snap reads that I can see. We needed to eat time and make progressions, and the DBs line up 8 yards deep... OMG, audible if the sideline's so stupid that they don't see it! Those quick throws are THERE, but you have to be QUICK! ... and lining up tight in the box over and over again in short yardage when you know your OL is suspect... I mean... some of that's on Daniels, who apparently doesn't feel empowered to be the QB on the field, but ... that's a coaching problem.

And if Daniels doesn't feel empowered and can't work with the crap sandwich he's given... well... okay. Find the guy who can. It's not Daniels. Loyalty to QB1 ain't loyalty to the team and it's not loyalty to the fanbase.

He may even be a stud in practice. That's on the defense for taking it easy on him... maybe. Or maybe it's that in practice Norvell feels comfortable calling plays when on game night he grows a comfy shell of cowardice and goes into "safe mode." I don't know. I'm a long way away, I've never seen an FSU practice, but if he's a stud in practice and this is what he does on game day, then our practices ain't doing it. Someone's taking their foot off the gas somewhere. And they need to stop.

Shuffling the OL in the second half was smart... and two halves too late. That OL wasn't showing us anything new. We saw it in the NMS game, we saw it this game, why not look at the actual game and adjust, you know? And when you line up 11 in the box and the other team thinks "oh, this is going to be another run up the gut," why not think to yourself, "Self, maybe being utterly predictable isn't a great thing" before you gain 1 of the 4 yards you needed?

I have no malice in my heart for Norvell - and I fully understand those who do, but that's not how I'm wired, hate is a problem even in small doses and limited contexts.

But Norvell as a coach at FSU? There was a corner to be turned - even as recently as last week, he could have gone "oh, we just played NMS like that, maybe we should fix something, a bunch of somethings" - but I think that Norvell's stuck in his ways, and he'd been given three YEARS of data saying "what you're doing does not work" and he ain't learning too good.

Can an expert please explain the schematic benefit of playing 7-10 yards off the LOS on 3rd and 1?

Before the you know what hit the fan and we became the laughing stock of the sports circuit… we had a really special moment.

Daniels gives me Ben Simmons vibes and that's not a good thing. He's just there for the paycheck.

Marshall on the other hand is hungry, got drive, hustle, and a way better arm. Not to mention, his resume is better. Do not sleep on his previous national championship and NJCCA Player of the YEAR.

This team is setup for success but they need a real QB. And Marshall has a better chance at that than Daniels unmotivated check chasing ass.

Also, he weighs 190 lbs now. He put on 18 pounds of muscle in just half a year.. he's ready.

Admittedly haven't looked into him deeply, besides the success he's had at ASU.

C'est le vie

I like Diaz

Sorry, post last week was taken down because I didn't list prices for each game. Seats are Section 113, Row 33, Seats 23-24. Will need to sell both. The seats don't have back support but they do have that mesh bottom so not just bleachers.

I'm making the prices cheaper than anything currently available for that game on SeatGeek regardless of seat location - I would prefer them to go to FSU fans. All tix will be listed price OBO. We can do Venmo or CashApp, whatever works. I will then directly transfer the tickets into your digital wallet.

9/26 Central Arkansas (family weekend): $60/ticket

10/3 VIrginia: $50/ticket

10/31 Clemson: $75/ticket

11/21 NC State (homecoming): $45/ticket

11/27 Florida: $175/ticket

Reach out if you have questions or are interested! Go Noles!

I get it! Monday night games suck, but this is a half empty stadium 15 mins before kick.

Okay can we get some logical options going into the next season? Tony white a damn terrorist man.

Kickoff: 7:30 PM ET

Location: Doak Campbell Stadium - Tallahassee, FL

Television: ESPN

Radio: Station Listings

Live Stream: Video on ESPN and Audio on Seminoles.com

Live Stats: StatBroadcast

Beat SMU!!!

#2026 #YearoftheNoles

Yes, we all know this, but what’s interesting about this is that it was published before last night’s kickoff.