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BCMurt09 {l Wrote}:https://watchstadium.com/news/college-football-coaches-commissioners-name-their-favorite-musical-acts-mcmurphys-law-10-30-2019/

I'm not saying we should a pick a coach based on this list, but I'm also not not saying that.

BC923 {l Wrote}:Taggart fired

ATLeagle {l Wrote}:HJS loved Taggart and repeatedly mentioned him for BC openings.

ATLeagle {l Wrote}:HJS loved Taggart and repeatedly mentioned him for BC openings.

tallsy {l Wrote}:I didn't think Taggart would have come here, but I think he would have had a decent chance to succeed. While there's less talent, there's much less pressure at BC then those places. He inherited a lot of under the radar problems from how Jimbo left. And BC doesn't play Florida OOC every year.

I think the same way about Bielema, Butch Jones, etc. Any coaching hire outside of Urban has some risk, and think BC should look at entire body of work not just one stop.

BC923 {l Wrote}:Jimbo left nothing on the OL, and Taggart hasn’t been able to improve it. Combined with APR issues that get in the way of turning the roster over, this is a long term challenge with sky high expectations. It’s a complete mess and it’ll take 3 or more years to put a good team out there again.

hansen {l Wrote}:

BC923 {l Wrote}:Jimbo left nothing on the OL, and Taggart hasn’t been able to improve it. Combined with APR issues that get in the way of turning the roster over, this is a long term challenge with sky high expectations. It’s a complete mess and it’ll take 3 or more years to put a good team out there again.

I saw they allowed nine sacks against Miami. I'm thinking we might be able to get a couple with out DL.
Are they better or worse than last year?

HJS {l Wrote}:Anyone have a clue who FSU would be looking at? I'm assuming they think they are bringing Urban back to Florida. But, outside of that, Matt Rhule, PJ Fleck and Matt Campbell (all have zero connections to FSU) are generally the hottest names among college coaches. I wonder if Mark Stoops is someone with strong support (FSU's DC from 2010-2012). Speaking of Stoops, I could see Bob being something they kick the tires on.

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:I was just listening to Boomer Esiason on WFAN in NY and they’re reporting that FSU is close to signing Bob Stoops

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:I was just listening to Boomer Esiason on WFAN in NY and they’re reporting that FSU is close to signing Bob Stoops

Eagle1999 {l Wrote}:

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:I was just listening to Boomer Esiason on WFAN in NY and they’re reporting that FSU is close to signing Bob Stoops

This would not be good for us.

DuchesneEast {l Wrote}:

Eagle1999 {l Wrote}:

BCSUPERFAN22 {l Wrote}:I was just listening to Boomer Esiason on WFAN in NY and they’re reporting that FSU is close to signing Bob Stoops

This would not be good for us.

Could be worse, they could hire Mark Stoops, which makes more sense.

That said, the financial implications of letting Taggart go at this point still will be wide-ranging. Florida State needed a $6.15 million transfer from Seminoles Boosters, which liquidated reserve assets, just to balance its athletic budget this summer. A new $60 million football operations building, which was set to open July 2021, was postponed this summer so the athletic department could retool its finance plan.

“Hopefully not,” Coburn said when asked if the coaching change would further delay construction on the football ops building. “I think once we figure out the buyouts and the new salaries, then we’ll have to take a step back and see where we are.”

A fundraising campaign — the school calls it “The Unconquered Campaign” — had had surpassed $70 million in pledges this summer. A significant chunk of that money is on hold in addition to the possible $20 million-plus it could cost to fire Taggart and his staff. Throw in the money it’ll take to hire another coach, assistants and any potential buyout figures associated with them, and that bill could climb closer to $30 million. That’s a lot of money and the vast majority of it is coming from the pockets of boosters.

“I think the basic concept there is (Seminoles Boosters) will have input,” Coburn told The Athletic in July. “They’ve always had input, but they’ve kind of been on the outside looking in the door or looking in the window, whereas now they’ll be inside giving input. But those basic decisions are still going to be made by the president and the athletic director.”

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Florida State sold fewer than 25,000 of its 40,000 available main bowl season-ticket seats and under 3,000 of its 6,000 Championship Club season-ticket seats. Main bowl season tickets range between $199 and $330 and Champions Club season tickets cost $2,750 per year. As a result of the declining sales of each, the FSUAA was missing out on eight digits of potential revenue.

Overall attendance for games also was dropping. Florida State had an averaged announced attendance of just 67,677 in 2018. The actual number of tickets scanned at the gate was just 41,599, figures provided to The Athletic showed. In addition to less money from ticket sales, dropping attendance means less revenue from concessions sales and more. Seminoles Boosters, which receives a minimum donation for every season ticket sold, also felt the hurt.