Kirk Herbstreit thinks major ACC program has a culture problem
The Florida State Seminoles have had a rough few years since Jimbo Fisher left Tallahassee.
Now, as they prepare to enter the first year under new head coach Mike Norvell, they’ll need to fix some fundamental problems within their facilities.
This week, ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit said on the “CFB Podcast with Herbie, Pollack and Negandhi” that he thinks the biggest thing Norvell needs to change is a culture problem (via 247Sports):
“I’ve (covered) a ton of Florida State games since (Jameis Winston) was there beyond. And I think that they had a culture problem when Jimbo was there, and I think it became more about me and less about we. I think it was all about getting to the league, and I think the first time they would lose a game they lost the team,” Herbstreit said. “Because he could get them to buy into, ‘Hey we’re gonna go to the national championship,’ and then as soon as they would lose a game that would go off the rails now it was they’re more focused on themselves and their individual status.
“And I think that started to happen when Jimbo’s there, and then I think that’s what (Willie Taggart) inherited. And I think Willie tried to change that, and I remember calling a game, Virginia Tech it was a labor day night game… and I remember talking to the players about that. And (former FSU defensive end) Brian Burns was in the room, who’s in the NFL now, and he and he said, ‘Man we we had an issue with guys that were more focused on their individual careers, we’ve got that all out of here, we’re focused on the team now,’ and that was a first game before Willie Taggart had coached a game. And then I kind of saw a lot of the same characteristics and personality. So that’s almost like a cancer that’s come into Tallahassee.”
The Seminoles have a lot of talent, but haven’t lived up to expectations in recent years. Will that change in 2020? We’ll find out soon enough.
Really? This is about FSU. Why is SDS covering a meaningless opinion story about an ACC team that was too chicken to join the SEC when they had the chance. Remember the joke: Why did the chicken cross the road? To join the ACC.
Probably because of the blame being put on Fisher and it being a critical year for his tenure at A&M.
Yep. Trying to get the A&M players against each other in the locker room. I hope Jimbo sues him for defamation.
That’s funny. You can’t sue someone when what they are saying is true. You also can’t sue over an opinion.
Ha! How stoopid….
FSU was NEVER offered to join the SEC. Gators and Bama refused to let them in.
Finally a person who knows exactly why FSU didn’t join the SEC. Saying that we were scared is comical, give me a break! Basketball had a lot to do with it to but Mike is exactly right, he hit it right on the head as far as the reason goes so keep believing what you want but if you did you’re research then you would know! #GoNoles ✋✋✋
Actually there is nothing anywhere that backs up his comments..
You can research it all you like..
I am sure St Bobby declined. He used to like cupcakes and creampuffs so he chose the ACC. I am sure you are glad the internet wasn’t around to expose Bobby back then. You my have fooled America back them but we have always known the real Noles.
Whole lot on info on the web say otherwise. Bleacher Report has a good story on it.
“Why is SDS covering a meaningless opinion story about an ACC team”
Because the games haven’t started yet.
You clicked on it, bro. Do you know how internet revenue works?
So I’m not allowed to comment about it? Run along you dumba$$.
“Why is SDS covering a meaningless opinion story about an ACC team ”
a fair question, probably because it’s a nice “safe space” story and the SDS journotards want to be taken seriously by the other soyboi journo fruits.
Remember 40 years ago when y’all won it all ? Or were you even born yet? Hahaha I hate the Moles but stopping yapping and finally win one . How about going for two in a row vs the Gators first !
Adam, did you remind Kirk that Coach Spurrier called them Free Shoes University (FSU) long ago? Me and not We was long before Jimbo. It was, well, before color TV.
Okay, Adam, I’ll lighten up on you. I went back and looked. It was 1994 when Spurrier used that phrase. Only 26 years ago.
My favorite Spurrier-Quip was concerning Auburn. He said…They had a fire at the library in Auburn and lots of those books were not even colored-in yet.
What a tool.
But that doesn’t explain two first rounders coming back this year to complete their careers.
Was he able to keep it together while saying this? Or did he start crying again?
I thought SDS was all about the SEC. The talking heads (Herbie and Kanell) can stick it in their EAR. Neither one of them has an opinion that matters.
Herbie fled Columbus Ohio to Nashville after becoming afraid of OSU fans who turned on him so there’s that.
Kirk thinks people get shot for wearing hoodies…how can anyone possibly such a ridiculous statement? And I suppose Jacob Blake was just reaching around in his car to hand the officer a piece of candy…
Yeah that was embarassing. Why did SDS even cover this non-story? Are they jumping into the SJW waters? It’s getting crowded in there.
Herbie…Willie Taggart is a horrible head coach…keeps getting hired and pockets the buyout money. Wasn’t he at Oregon only one(1) year ? Not class in that.
Wow! Why are people protecting the ones for their failures and blame them onto other people?
*Blaming
Hey Willie Taggart has gotten wealthy by being a failed head coach. Example: FSU Buyout=$19 Million.
Herbie is a pu$$y.
Shocker discovery by Herbie. FSU has a culture problem. Wow. Blinding insight. Guess he missed the Florida game where CGJ had to tell the Holes that they didn’t have enough players on the field.
Yes FSU has major culture problems
credit card scams, players repeatedly choking tutors, weekly transfer portal entries, losing #1 recruit because the HC won’t address repeated sexual assault claims, starters assaulting tow truck drivers, the State Attorney having to give pressers for bogus defense of the program etc etc etc.
Then you have Coach Norvell’s wife kissing all the players, wierd stuff.
And even thru all that our QB’s are all staying to play for Dancing Dan
Let’s see
UGA has a 5-star and 2 4-stars playing for Coach Kirby Smart. One of which was Florida’s Mr Football. Safe to say Coach Smart has the stable well stocked.
Then there is the 5-star commitment on his way the Athens GA. If you want you can watch him in ESPN tonight. Baking with the 5-star that is committed to USCar.
Did you know Kirby has had more 5-stars transfer out than mullet has ever recruited?????
DumbsOfWar you forgot that all your QBs have really good HS tape, I mean, they were the bestest of all in high school.
You got the transfer portal deal right, UGA has the most 5 stars and even 4 stars of all teams transfer out after one or two years, not only QBs.
Less with more and where 5 stars go to the portal, a Georgia thing
Always with the recruiting accomplishments. Mullen’s lowly 3-star quarterback who never started a game in high school had a 67% CMP ratio last season and will likely be drafted after this season. Mullen has coached a Heisman winning quarterback, another quarterback who has won over 50 games as an NFL starter, and yet a third who was a 3-star out of high school and will make $31.4 million this year playing for the Dallas Cowboys.
Has mullet ever beaten Kibry Smart????
Have you made your choice:
TheGreatA$$clown
TheGreatDbag
TheGreatMoron
No. But now that he has a competitive roster, I suspect he will because he’s…
Smarter.
Well, now that you mention it, I guess Free Shoes U isn’t as bad as a place where a recent player committed armed robbery, where the #1 recruit (and #2 overall in the nation) quarterback hit the transfer portal, where a starting receiver was kicked off the team for an alleged sexual assault, at a program where a professor won a judgment against the university because she was coerced by the administration to give football players passing grades…
Rednecks in glass trailers.
Dudette
If you want to go back in history, then let’s take a stroll.
It’s not like UGA is the one who recruited the known, murderous gang banger who went to prison for murder.
Yep, the known gang banger had his gang tats before he ever showed up at the I-75 Truck Stop.
Wasn’t mullet the OC when the gay gang banger was gang banging in Gainesville, maybe the gay gang banger was mullet banging as well.
You missed the point. Let me be more specific. Rednecks in glass trailers shouldn’t throw their empty beer bottles.
Try not to get your new account closed too.
No you missed the point numbnuts
UF is a sh*t show. And, although FSU is as well, UF has nothing on FSU.
But hey, thanks for letting me know I hit a nerve turd boy.
DumbsOfWar you forgot to say the UF was a finalist for the Fulmer Cup last season, or was that UGA?
I missed the point? You haven’t made a point since I’ve been on SDS, so there’s nothing to miss. Throwing one personal insult after another accomplishes nothing.
“Rednecks in glass trailers.”
“Rednecks in glass trailers shouldn’t throw their empty beer bottles.”
“Throwing one personal insult after another accomplishes nothing.”
Dang – that nerve is really raw, you need a band-aid?
I would have said Morons in Glass Dog Houses, but Rednecks in Glass Trailers works well too.
You are just too dumb to understand
Fair enough. I should have said “people in glass houses,” not “rednecks in glass trailers.” You got me.
But I’m not clear on what “raw nerve” you’re referring to when I simply make the point that Georgia — and for that matter, no major college football program — has a lily white history.
Hey Boxster I’m sorry but you are a dumba$$. Just look at this exchange and here you have the typical DumbsOfWar posting history. How could you have ever said this big Moron has “clarity”, “thoughtful analysis” or “lyrical flair”when all he posts is obnoxious bullsheet.
He’s a big fat Moron and you are just plain delusionally dumb if you really believe that
Didn’t Jimbos’ wife have a n affair with one of their wide receivers ? I read or heard that.
Multiple flings. Not one.
Wonder how many got a “kiss” from the mullet mistress?
She kisses them on the cheek. No big deal. And she would easily beat Kirby in a golf match even if they both played from the back tees.
A mature lady forces her husband’s players, who are young men, to line-up so she can kiss them all.
Can you name that ever happening with any other football team – from little league to NFL????
Did Urban Myer’s wife do that, does Mrs. Saban, does Mrs. Swaney, did Mrs. Spurrier etc????
Beyond the sexual innuendo, beyond the terrible hygiene aspect – it’s just weird!!! It’s like a 19th century plantation owner mindset fused with mindset of the locker-room ho.
What kind of husband would allow his wife to do that? (or wife allow her husband for that matter) What kind of University AD would allow that? What kind of fan base wants to have to defend and explain that type of behavior?
Don’t think anyone is forced to do anything. Think it’s pretty much a harmless peck on the cheek on game day. Pretty sure the idea is that she’s a mom away from home. And pretty sure it’s not happening under current COVID-19 protocols.
I suspect if you were honest about the real problem you have with it, you’d probably get your new SDS account closed too.
The “mom” for 18-22 year old young men away from home,
yeah, they have a term for that type of mom
Are you married? I need a mom away from home next time I’m in Nashville.
However, feel free to keep on plaining that one.
Don’t look now, but you’re projecting your insecurities.
Hey Boxster, dumba$$, this is the exchange I meant in my previous post
Hey DAWG lover-how’s Professor Kemp she knew about you cheat’s decades ago! #canthebigDAWGread.Look it up before you go after another school.#14499
Culture matters.
Crybaby Kirk,,,,who cares what he says, through his tears,,,Dumbass
If you add a “e” and change the “D” to a “B” it spells “TebowTheGreat”. I wonder if he’s a closet Gator fan? Or is the he really a she? She really seems to be hung up on this kissing thing with Mama Mullen, and now it’s making sense. She didn’t get kissed like all the other girls in Jr. High.
Wrong post dumbaass
Lol
Nah, it landed right on target just like Mama Mullens kisses. And since you replied it just confirms i’m in your head, along with all Gators. I bet you have nightmares about long tails and big teeth in your bed at night don’t you? go ahead, reply back at your convenience, c’mon i know i’m living in there
TDOWTheGreatA$$clown
What does any of this have to do with laughing at Tennessee? I don’t get it.
Think we found out tonight. They’ve now lost their last 4 openers
Notice how Kirk is careful not to blame the black coach. It is so old and tiresome. Can we start a petition to not have to see Herbstreet anymore. “wah wah and having to put your hands at 10 and 2 when the cop approaches sniff sniff” Even black people were embarrassed by this phoney display.