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Podcast Ain't Played Nobody

Florida State Fires Willie Taggart

Podcast Ain't Played Nobody

E&S

Sports, Football, Sports News, News

4.9922 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Godfrey and Bud talk through the breaking news on Florida State's firing of Willie Taggart after just 20 games in Tallahassee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Podcast name Play Nobody, the first of probably what will be many emergency additions as we go through the silly season

0:06.8

But Elliot we knew that USC would would likely open after last night. It seems like they will now we have an East Coast

0:13.6

opening of equal magnitude and thus it begins so Florida State has fired Willie

0:19.2

Tiger it was funny as I was recording our PAAP and hurry up this morning with with Alex as you guys were all kind of in the wind and you texted me as I was traveling today right after I said well surely it won't happen because you and I were both convinced I think

0:33.6

of the same opinion that it just didn't feel like it would happen this year it

0:38.4

didn't feel like unless the absolute bottom fell out that it was this was going to be a problem for

0:43.4

Willie Taggart and here we are. Yeah like look I don't think Florida State

0:48.8

was happy with the direction the program is going obviously but they did not want to have to fire

0:53.2

Willie Taggart last night didn't leave them with much of a choice obviously third

0:58.0

straight game where you have to take a timeout on special teams rampant

1:02.0

internal disorganization that you you know, the power players and the decision

1:06.0

makers on the inside of the program got to see up close and I believe we're kind of asking

1:10.9

around about how things were being run internally and just a team that was largely

1:16.8

undisciplined and wrought with penalties yet again to get blown out by this Miami team which recently lost to Georgia Tech and you know like look I I bet Miami I think Miami is a better team

1:30.4

Ford State is and said so before the game but to lose at at home

1:35.4

27 to 10 and largely be be non-competitive against that Miami team it just made a lot more financial sense for them to go ahead and pay

1:45.6

17 million rather than basically have all the fans and boosters quit on the guy, which is what was going to happen.

1:51.7

Attendance has been down.

1:53.1

This is a common trend in college football, obviously,

1:55.1

but it's also a common trend when that weird zeitgeist thing

1:59.8

kind of happens where a coach is struggling for whatever reason be it justified or not and

2:04.1

fans feel like this coach is not going to be around for a long time and you see

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