Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
Interesting. Why, though? Well, like all things college football today…it’s money.
Norvell remains unlikely to be fired if the Seminoles lose that game, but if the scoreline is ugly enough, it could lead to an immediate change. If that were to happen, the nearly $50 million he would be owed in a buyout would strap FSU financially in its coaching search, and that could give Fisher the upper hand.
Fisher was fired from Texas A&M in 2023 and became the recipient of the largest buyout in college football history, $77.6 million. So Fisher could take a cut-rate salary to lessen the stress on the program and offer an immediate arrival.
Hey, he’s already rich…so it won’t really cost nothing, will it?
Never mind Fisher couldn’t accomplish anything with what was assuredly some of the highest paid rosters out there with a stacked blue chip class of players (who ultimately never panned out)…but he’s affordable!
There’s a reason Florida State hasn’t been relevant since the 63-3 drubbing by Georgia, and it’s not all because Georgia killed their will.
Good luck with that, Seminoles. When you have Publix tastes on an Aldi budget, sometimes you have to look for a steal.
Color me surprised that Auburn and South Carolina are spending more than Georgia and have nothing at all to show for it, except a new coach and one who could be on his way out.
Ditto for Nebraska, Michigan, and USC. What’s lost here is the individual payouts, where I’d imagine Kirby takes a more balanced approach to spread the wealth while a team like Michigan invested heavily in a QB that has people wondering why they did that.
And then there’s Oregon, Texas and tOSU. Top of the list yet no titles for two of them and Ohio State seemingly lucked into theirs and still can’t buy a decent kicker.
Indiana is lower than eleven teams that has a combined single national title, and one (LSU) that hasn’t even made the expanded CFP. Tennessee has made it once, getting hammered by the Suckeyes 42-9 and didn’t make it in last year at all.
And while Dabo preaches that he doesn’t like transfers, he is investing a lot of money into something…but what it is is beyond me. From another vantage point, consider this:
FSU fans are certainly tasting blood in the water, and are praying that they have front-row-center tickets for the kicking to the curb of the FSU Portal Master. And they’re already dreaming of a current Bulldawg heading up their program in the post-Norvell era.
If FSU cleans house, I’m thinking money first. Don’t chase 10 million dollar coaches, spend on the roster. My hires, for AD, Jeramiah Dickey from Boise State. Head Coach, Glenn Schumann. OC, Kade Bell. Strong Florida roots, he’s young, quarterback guy. And DC, Travaris Robinson, Schumann’s co-DC right now. – @JovaniDiaz35 on X (graphic credit to Jovani and AI)
Don’t chase $10 million coaches? Have they never heard of Jimmy Sexton? Hell, whoever they bring in will likely command a high dollar contract, and if it’s Schu, well, good on him. He’s put his time in and you’d be hard to argue against hiring from the Smart coaching tree (wait, what about Oregon?).
Give them credit for their optimism, that’s all they’ve got right now. In truth, I’m sure Schumann would like to bring Robinson with him, although I think Kirby would offer a nice chunk of change to retain as much Georgia staff as necessary and let Schumann pick from other places.(note: Fran Brown hasn’t exactly been doing well at Syracuse, so he could always come back to Athens or head to Tally, if this is the manifested destination).
Leta face it, it’s way cheaper to buy out an AD’s contract than, say, this guy’s…
A lingering question sources have told On3 in recent days is whether Florida State moves on from Norvell and who would make the next hire. Alford’s firing signals he will not make the final decision on Norvell or who will handle a possible coaching search.
Senior associate AD Bruce Warwick will serve as Florida State interim athletic director, sources tell On3.
“Changes like this are never easy, but sometimes necessary,” Florida State Board of Trustees Chairman Peter Collins said in a statement. “We have made significant investments and structural changes in our athletics program and Seminole Boosters over the past few years, but more are needed. This step begins the next phase of restructuring that the University must commit to in order to compete in this era of college sports. ”
Alford brought Norvell back for the 2026 season despite a 2-7 finish in 2025 after starting the year 3-0. Florida State is 8-18 since its ACC championship game win in 2023.
With FSU fans crowdsourcing Norvell’s buyout, safe to say that losing the AD is just the first domino to fall.
Sometimes, Kirby just has a way of breaking you. Let’s hope he’s done it to another guy, too…
Kalen DeBoer offered several interesting explanations following the Crimson Tide’s win over Kentucky.
His comments about the equipment failure in the second half especially caught my attention.
The fact that folks may have been leaving a game early against Clemson is kind of laughable, but Lane is making a point here:
On the Lane Kiffin Show tonight, announced that the LSU students will be incentivized to stay until the end of the game, scan a QR code to prove you stayed & can win a side line pass, walk with the team on Victory Hill, speakers or other cool items. Lane Kiffin said if you are…
With the white out being unique, it stands to reason that folks might leave early in a blowout and make their ways home to see some of the other big games on the day, or the students will migrate out to resume day drinking the day away.
Can’t say I blame them…although where are you on the idea? Are you a stay until the clock hits zero kind of fan? Does it make you made to see people leave a game early?
Is the white uniform thing of interest to you all, or are you like Warren Brinson, who sees a little humor in uniform gimmicks and money grabs?
If you think the average Michigan man is happy with the Minutemen Miracle from Saturday, you’re wrong. The criticism has been directed not at the head coach, but at Dave Portnoy’s investment in Bryce Underwood.
I’m starting to feel bad for him. Got told he was a savior at 17 years old by Portnoy and Ellison and handed 12 million dollars.
1st coach was a weirdo 2nd coach is mentally on a beach
This has for sure been the worst week of his life. And on top of that, he’s bad at football pic.twitter.com/xQew6Uv8FN
Another post, which won’t embed here, looked like this:
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A quick perusal of the comments and I came across one where someone said “he gets paid to be a great quarterback”. And, lo, we have entered the conundrum of NIL in college sports.
Consider some of our collective disdain for Mike Bobo. It’s one thing to disagree with his play calling, it’s another thing altogether when you find out he gets a raise. While we once could bemoan a quarterback or athlete for a subpar effort, now we’re complaining about a lack of return on investment.
This is what the Senator warned us about, and now it’s here. Minor League Football and media rights rule the day. Don’t want to sit in noon weather for a cupcake game in Sanford? Blame not the UGAA, but look to the media rights. You’ll sit in the nuclear heat of the sun because it fits the viewing schedule, I don’t care if you’re a sun stroked mongoloid who dies from heat stroke, we have money to make here!
I don’t come here to point fingers at Underwood. If he’s my son, I’m telling him to take the money and then transfer somewhere reputable his junior year to develop if he wants to go pro. Like a USC or somewhere they develop quarterbacks.
What’s sad is between litigation and likeness, kids are now becoming semipros and people aren’t chalking it up to “maybe there’s next year” but are turning their attention to deepening the coffers to bring in the next bright shiny toy to their roster.
Gone are the days of amateurism and the walk in hero who earns a scholarship. Well, mostly.
Looks like it still happens, but maybe won’t at the P4 level anymore.
While other people have embraced the portal – Mike Norvell – and others have rejected it – Dabo Swinney – one thing is becoming more and more clear…Kirby has the right approach to navigating the portal era.
It might not happen this year, or next, but he’s building some roster consistency where others are not. In the interim, the highest bidders and the new shows in town, like tOSU and Indiana, will hoist trophies and beat their chests, but the 2021 and 2022 seasons were not aberrations. A long road of roster consistency and management will yield results, and as far as I’ve heard, no one is questioning how much Gunner or Nate Frazier are making this year.
And that says something, given the modern circumstances.
Dabo is officially on the hot seat, and it seems like he doesn’t much care about it. Ever since Brent Venables left the Greater Anderson Cow College, Clemson hasn’t necessarily been a feared program.
In Venables time at Clemson, roughly ten years from 2012-2021, Clemson lost a total of 17 games. In the four seasons since he took over at the helm at Oklahoma, Clemson hasn’t necessarily lost…17 games.
It’s not so bad, though…in the four years before Venables came to Clemson, Swinney lost 22 games.
It’s amazing what Swinney can’t accomplish as a head coach in his own, and people are becoming very aware of it. Smart may have had his last chance to embarrass Dabo when Georgia played Clemson a few years ago, but the better news is Kirby doesn’t have a split like that that people can point to based on a coordinator, no matter if the fan base likes the coordinator or not.
NEWS: LSU football is adding two players to the school’s roster, which will complete it at 105 players, per ESPN sources. This will lock LSU’s roster for the rest of the year, which will eliminate the program’s ability to add Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris. pic.twitter.com/gLJj7AyvPw
If there’s one person out there, whether you hate him or love him, who wouldn’t mind burning the business down on his way out, it’s probably Lane Kiffin.
Given the slings and arrows he endured as he exited Oxford, it’s hard not see how he could have some feelings about his indictment as a turncoat in modern college football. Transfers everywhere, people chasing a bag, so why not…and, oh, a loophole that allows 2022 players an extra year of eligibility to boot? Lane saw an opportunity for chaos, and jumped at the chance.
let’s pour gasoline on the fire and see what happens…because some people get a kick out of watching the fire department do their damndest to fight to extinguish something that’s impossible to put out.
Meanwhile, Lane has shifted from courtroom antics to locker room antics.
We can also laugh at “secretly released”… Kiffin WANTED that videoed & released. That’s why a staff member did it. pic.twitter.com/QoPn9PH44N
It sounds like he’s trying to channel his inner Kirby while also embracing the idea that he’s happy to kick a person when they’re down. He’s trying to make LSU a feared program again, and will use any fabricated voodoo to get there.
Gotta say, I’m impressed. Somehow in the midst of it all he’s had an expose book written about his horndog lifestyle in Tuscaloosa, tattled about tampering, abandoned a college football program as they were heading to the CFP, and all anyone can talk about is court and eligibility of pro players, whom he won’t even roster in the end.
And a 51-10 ass whipping of Clemson.
Lane decided that, instead of hating the PR machine for what it is, he’d hack it and use it to his benefit to rebrand himself as the villain of college football, a rogue badass who will now lay wate to everyone in his path, and not as Joey Freshwater anymore.
Why do I get the distinct feeling that radio broadcasts are about to find their way to a pay per listen medium? Will Glory Glory be create a subscriber only channel where Bulldawg fans can pay to hear the games?
Why would I not be surprised to see them dome Sanford and make fans pay to breathe the air?
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Of course, some folks are having fun with it, but I’m not sure if they’re giving Josh more ideas that could cost us down the road.
