Getting To Know FSU Coach Eddie Gran
Fascinating story about Eddie Gran and some of the struggles he has faced.
This article was written during his stay at University of Tennessee, but it gives you very good insight into what our new Running Back coach and recruiter Coach Gran is all about.
Some thoughts on how Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher will work with the media
From AC's Chopping Blog, this story will give you an excellent insight on how things are going to change now that there is a new sheriff in town. Sheriff Jimbo. (Do I sound like Jon Gruden?)
Here are a couple of highlights from AC's post, one that I encourage everyone to take a few minutes to read.
During past FSU signing days, Bobby Bowden gave some general remarks about the incoming class and took some questions. His assistant coaches, spread around the room, were available, too. Two years ago, the players who had enrolled early – Nigel Bradham, among others – were also available for interviews.
Last Wednesday? Fisher spoke. And that was it. No assistant coaches. None of the players – Jeff Luc, Clint Trickett, Debrale Smiley and Anthony McCloud – who had enrolled early. Just Fisher. He was gracious with his time. He spoke for about 45 minutes, then spent an additional 10 minutes or so with reporters after the formal press conference. Fisher was informative, open with his answers and even cracked a Bowden-like one-liner about Trickett, the quarterback who’s the son of offensive line coach Rick Trickett. Said Jimbo, about Clint Trickett: He came from a rough background, but that’s OK. FSU took a chance on him anyway. Cue the laugh track.
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Then Fisher made clear what members of the FSU media corps have suspected for quite some time. Beyond the first – and only – opportunity to talk with assistant coaches, they will be off limits to the media. Fisher said he thought it was important for the program to have "one voice," especially now, early into his tenure as head coach. So Fisher will serve as that voice. At least for the time being. The "one voice" concept isn’t new to college football. More and more head coaches employ it, to varying degrees, at programs around the nation.
Most notably, Nick Saban uses the "one voice" model at Alabama. Fisher, of course, is a Saban disciple. In terms of organizing and running a program, Fisher perhaps learned more from Saban than he did any other coach. The two worked together at LSU and have remained close. Saban’s choice to utilize the "one voice" model in Tuscaloosa has made him a somewhat unpopular figure among media members but it hasn’t necessarily affected the way Alabama has been portrayed. It doesn’t hurt, too, that he has built the Crimson Tide into the nation’s best team.
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When I spoke to Fisher recently for a separate story I’m working on about him, he said his "one voice" policy isn’t meant to shield the media from his assistants. It’s meant instead to shield his assistants from the media. In short, he doesn’t want his assistant coaches creating personalities for themselves that are larger than the program.
What It Takes to be Consistently Successful in College Football
by RaysnNoles on Feb 9, 2010 11:05 AM EST
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Here it is folks. The topic of finances and where Florida State stands as a football program, athletic program and an institution has been a popular subject over the past few months as discussed here, here, here, here and here. The following is an analysis and recap intended to show where FSU currently stands financially and how it stacks up against other schools nationally and within our own conference.
I am in the camp of thought that in this day and age of college football there are 2 critical factors into having a consistently successful program, (1) a leadership group that understands what it takes to run a football program and (2) a substantial amount of income. I understand that there are other smaller factors that play into a team’s success or lack thereof (i.e. location, competition and academic standards). I will attempt to show that in this day and age of football it in near impossible to succeed on a consistent basis without both of those factors.
In a recent FanShot there was conversation of how a school’s total worth is related to the funds put towards athletics. The following comments are from noles55:
What the average fan doesn't get is it is ALL (endowments, academics and athletics) tied together to a point. When it comes to college athletics, a rising tide raises all boats. It is a mistake to look at ‘wealth’ in a football vacuum IMHO. This is a mindset FSU ALWAYS makes. IE, ‘well, we will just get rich in football and the rest will sort itself out’. It doesn’t work that way in college athletics. The biggest richest school are almost always rich everywhere else. I doubt FSU ever gets this, but it is what holds FSU back…..including in football
I have to admit when I first wrote this article I was looking at everything in a "football vacuum" but then realized if there are many more financial factors that come into play. While there is no concrete formula to a winning and successful football program there are some common traits that that each successful football team has.
After the jump we will take a look and see how FSU ranks on a national level.
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Free Florida State Baseball Fan Day
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION
Activities at Fan Day include:
10:30 a.m. - Picnic In The Park - featuring Build your own Fajita Bar
11:00 a.m. - Autograph session with players and coaches in Haggard Plaza
11:00 a.m. - Kids Speed Pitch (throw three balls for $1)
11:00 a.m. - Kids Laps Around the Bases
11:00 a.m. - Kids Play Catch in the Outfield (must bring own ball and glove)
1:00 p.m. - Player stretching/Batting practice
2:30 p.m. - Full team scrimmage
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Signing day hype means little: Looking back at FSUs past recruiting blunders
Great article by AC.
"Has there been another college football team in the country that has had more bountiful signing days and less on-the-field results in recent seasons than FSU? Before he retired, Bobby Bowden admitted that his program failed to properly evaluate recruits."
"The good news, for the FSU faithful, is that there haven’t been similar recruiting mishaps since Jimbo Fisher, FSU head coach, became the Seminoles’ offensive coordinator in 2007."
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SBNation's Bracketology
SBnation's current bracket prediction has Florida State as a ten seed playing Cornell in Milwaukee.
TC would be a big fan of FSU playing in Milwaukee, not because it would be good for the Seminoles, but good for TC.
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Florida State Dominating The ACC in Recruiting
by FSUncensored on Feb 8, 2010 1:11 AM EST
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I've thought for a while that Florida State will soon dominate the ACC in recruiting. And I don't mean the "let's take these highly rated kids who have no shot of qualifying or staying out of prison so that we can pump our national ranking" method. I mean getting the best players who will make a big impact on the field. That time is now. Other ACC writers have noticed:
Clemson travels to Tallahassee to face the ‘Noles. Jimbo Fisher has not messed around down there. He has their offense rocking and rolling fixing the Jeff Bowden debacle with authority. With all the controversy and drama gone, I really expect this team to be improved overall since last year. Also, there is no way that FSU is really that bad on defense, and will be improved there this season. I think the ACC needs to watch out because it looks like Jimbo is moving in the right direction both offensively and on the recruiting trail. These improvements coupled with the fact that their defensive effort cannot get any worse leads me to believe FSU is poised for great things over the next few years and will defeat Clemson this season.-- ShakinTheSouthland.com (Clemson site)
We already know FSU snagged 8 ESPNU150 players while the rest of the ACC landed 9 combined. That's pretty impressive. I find looking at the top 6 ACC classes in chart form to be very helpful. The players below are ranked by Rivals.com rating (6.1 is a 5* player, 6.0-5.8 is a 4*, 5.7-5.5 is a 3*, and 5.4 or less is a 2*). I used Rivals.com and not ESPN because ESPN refuses to rate Junior College players. The teams are ordered by their average star ranking.
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If you don't think recruiting rankings matter, well, you're wrong. Sleepers don't turn into studs as often as 5* players. As that link shows, they are far less likely.
The thing that strikes me is not that FSU signed more 4 & 5* players than any other team. They did. No, what strikes me is the bottom of FSU's recruiting class. FSU took 1 player rated 5.5 or less (JUCO DT Amp McCloud). Clemson took 4. Virginia Tech took 6. Miami took 8!
FSU didn't take filler players. Doctors get to bury their mistakes. Coaches have to feed theirs for 4 years. Florida State is creating functional depth. And while Miami might get a star or two our of their lower ranked players, we know for a fact that lower rated players are significantly less likely to become star players. FSU's bottom 10 players have a much better chance of becoming good players than do the bottom 10 players of the other classes. That's significant. We're talking about 40% of a class.
Every team will get a few highly rated kids. Where FSU will begin to separate itself is by having a much better bottom 10 players than the other teams in the conference on a yearly basis. And when a team's bottom 10 players would make up a solid base for other classes in the confrence, those teams are going to get dominated.
Inside, find our answers to the ACC recruiting round table!
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FSU's Academic Fraud Scandal Finally Comes To An End
by FrankDNole on Feb 7, 2010 3:10 PM EST
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First posted to TN by movinonup.
Close the door. Turn the page. The party's over. The fat lady has sung. Turn off the lights. It's finally over. Finito.
The FSU Athletic Department announced earlier today that they have determined that Florida State University will vacate 12 wins in football, 22 wins in men's basketball, a NCAA post season baseball victory, one national championship in men's track and field, a NCAA tournament victory in women's basketball, as well as other wins in these and several other men's and women's sports.
This vacation-of-wins penalty is the result of the 2006-2007 academic misconduct case that was self-reported to the NCAA by then FSU President T.K. Wetherell, which is believed to have been done in an effort to embarrass then athletic director Dave Hart and as retaliation for rightfully forcing the "resignation" of Jeff Bowden, and which then brought about the subsequent NCAA investigation and sanctions.
The NCAA Committee on Infractions accepted all of FSU's self-imposed penalties of probation and scholarship reductions in the 10 sports in which 61 student-athletes were implicated in the wide spread fraud involving an online Music Appreciation course. In addition to the self-imposed penalties, the NCAA then also ordered that FSU vacate any and all wins in which those student-athletes, which the NCAA deemed ineligible, participated in during that time frame.
Then, FSU's former president decided to further tarnish and further drag through the mud FSU's good name, and keep this unfortunate scandal at the full attention of the national media, by appealing the vacation-of-wins penalty in order to preserve Bobby Bowden's wins and to give him a chance to catch Joe Paterno for the most-football-wins title. A subsequent hearing was then held by Appeals Committee and FSU's appeal was denied and rejected. Pressure from boosters and common sense finally prevailed, and the outgoing president finally did the right thing and let this miserable chapter in FSU history come to a merciful end by not taking this matter any further with legal action in the courts, as he had previously threatened he would do if the appeal was lost.
Since losing the NCAA appeal, the athletic department has been trying to determine in which games the ineligible student-athletes participated and how many wins each of the Florida State sports teams involved would vacate.
It had been estimated that the football team and Bobby Bowden would lose as many as 14 wins, however the final tally has the team and Bowden only losing 12 victories, which in Bowden's case is now a moot point in the most-football-wins race with Paterno.
Listed below is what the FSU Athletic Department determined to be the official count of vacated wins for each sport.
FROM THE 2006-2007 BASEBALL SEASON:
4 victories total consisting of:
-3 Regular Season
-1 NCAA Post Season
FROM THE 2006-2007 MEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON:
22 victories total consisting of:
-19 Regular Season
-1 ACC Tournament
-2 NIT Post Season
FROM THE 2006-2007 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON:
16 victories consisting of:
-13 Regular Season
-1 ACC Tournament
-2 NCAA Post Season
-AND FROM THE 2007-2008 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON:
-6 Regular Season victories
FROM MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY:
-2006 ACC Championship – 2nd Place to 3rd Place
-2006 NCAA Regional – 1st Place to 2nd Place
-2006 NCAA Championship – Maintain 30th Place
-2007 ACC Championship – 3rd Place to 6th Place
-2007 NCAA Regional – 2nd Place to 4th Place
-2007 NCAA Championship – 20th Place to 25th Place
FROM WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY:
-2006 No Adjustments
-2007 ACC Championship – Maintain Championship
-2007 NCAA Regional – Maintain Championship
-2007 NCAA Championship – 3rd to 4th Place
FROM THE 2006-2007 FOOTBALL SEASON:
5 victories consisting of:
-4 Regular Season
-1 Emerald Bowl Championship
-AND FROM THE 2007-2008 FOOTBALL SEASON:
-7 Regular Season victories
FROM MEN’S GOLF:
-No 2007 Regular Season Tournaments Won – No Wins Vacated
-2007 ACC Championship – 4th place to 6th place
-2007 NCAA Regional – 5th place to 8th place
-2007 NCAA Championship – 13th place to 15th Place
FROM THE 2006-2007 WOMEN’S SOFTBALL SEASON:
32 victories consisting of :
-30 Regular Season
-2 ACC Tournament
FROM MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING:
-2007 ACC Championship – Maintain 1st Place
-2007 NCAA Championship – Maintain 17th Place
FROM WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING:
-2007 ACC Championship – Maintain 2nd Place
-2007 NCAA Championship – 17th place to 26th place
FROM MEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD:
-2007 ACC Championship – Maintain Championship
-2007 NCAA Championship – 2nd Place to 4th Place
FROM WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK AND FIELD:
-2007 ACC Championship – 4th Place to 7th Place
-2007 NCAA Championship – Maintain 30th Place
FROM MEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD:
-2007 ACC Championship – Maintain Championship
-2007 NCAA Regional – Maintain 1st Place
-2007 NCAA Championship – 1ST place to 2nd Place
FROM WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD:
-2007 ACC Championship – Maintain 3rd Place
-2007 NCAA Regional – 5th place to 6th place
-2007 NCAA Championship – Maintain 14th Place
TGIO=THANK GOD IT'S OVER
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Miami
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Mon 09/07 | L 34 - 38 |
| Jacksonville St. | Sat 09/12 | W 19 - 9 |
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BYU
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Sat 09/19 | W 54 - 28 |
| South Florida | Sat 09/26 | L 7 - 17 |
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Boston College
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Sat 10/03 | L 21 - 28 |
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Georgia Tech
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Sat 10/10 | L 44 - 49 |
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North Carolina
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Thu 10/22 | W 30 - 27 |
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N.C. State
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Sat 10/31 | W 45 - 42 |
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Clemson
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Sat 11/07 | L 24 - 40 |
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Wake Forest
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Sat 11/14 | W 41 - 28 |
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Maryland
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Sat 11/21 | W 29 - 26 |
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Florida
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Sat 11/28 | L 10 - 37 |
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West Virginia
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Fri 01/01 | W 33 - 21 |
Seminoles Basketball Schedule
Next 5 Games
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Clemson
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Wed 02/10 | 7:00 PM EST |
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Boston College
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Sun 02/14 | 7:30 PM EST |
| @ Virginia | Wed 02/17 | 7:00 PM EST |
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North Carolina
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Wed 02/24 | 7:00 PM EST |
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Clemson
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Sun 02/28 | 5:30 PM EST |
Last 5 Games
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Miami
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Sat 02/06 | W 71 - 65 |
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Maryland
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Thu 02/04 | L 67 - 71 |
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Boston College
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Sat 01/30 | W 61 - 57 |
| @ Duke | Wed 01/27 | L 56 - 70 |
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Georgia Tech
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Sun 01/24 | W 68 - 66 |
Atlantic Coast Conference Standings
(updated 2.10.2010 at 1:36 AM EST)
| Conf | Overall | |||
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| Duke Blue Devils | 7 | 2 | 19 | 4 |
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Maryland Terrapins
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6 | 2 | 16 | 6 |
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Wake Forest Demon Deacons
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7 | 3 | 17 | 5 |
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Virginia Tech Hokies
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5 | 3 | 18 | 4 |
| Virginia Cavaliers | 5 | 3 | 14 | 7 |
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
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5 | 4 | 17 | 6 |
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Florida St. Seminoles
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5 | 4 | 17 | 6 |
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Clemson Tigers
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4 | 5 | 16 | 7 |
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Boston College Eagles
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3 | 7 | 12 | 12 |
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North Carolina Tar Heels
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2 | 6 | 13 | 10 |
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Miami Hurricanes
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2 | 7 | 16 | 7 |
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N.C. State Wolfpack
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2 | 7 | 14 | 10 |
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