Meet: 'The Focused One'

On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

247Sports, Florida State, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State football, FSU football, college foo

Sports, Football

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Florida State’s branding decisions have been scrutinized, by some, in recent years.

Remember the “Keep This Chief” movement when FSU updated its logo in 2014?

Or the outrage after viewers struggled to read uniform numbers on FSU’s road jerseys in the 2014 opener?

And most recently, Jameis Winston pushing for FSU to change its numbers on home jerseys to white?

TaReef KnockOut, a Tallahassee rapper and avid FSU fan, has been at the forefront of a vocal group that wants to see quicker progress when it comes to various aspects of FSU’s branding. From uniform tweaks to more consistency on social media, TaReef KnockOut has lead a charge that even got Winston involved recently.

Josh Newberg continues his ‘Meet’ series by sitting down with TaReef KnockOut in the latest episode of On The Bench.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brendan Sonone. This is on the bench. And we got a special edition for you today.
0:05.2	This is Josh Newburgh's continuation of his Meet series. And we're meeting a pretty avid and I don't want to say polarizing fan but but someone who loves
0:15.8	FSU and makes his love and passion for FSU and uniforms and in social media
0:21.6	very evident.
0:23.1	Josh, what do you got for us today?
0:24.8	Yeah, thank you.
0:26.1	Today I'm gonna sit down with Tariff Knockout.
0:30.0	Everybody on FSU Twitter knows him
0:32.2	as the hashtag nobody's focused guy.
0:35.0	Makes a lot of good points.
0:37.0	He's, let's just call him consistent on Twitter.
0:41.0	He does a really good job though of pointing out some things that I think
0:45.2	are actually obvious to the uniform to FSU's brand, some things that could be changed,
0:50.4	some things that could be tweaked.
0:52.5	So we're going to sit down.
0:54.0	Here we are a couple weeks out from the start of fall camp.
0:56.1	It's a good time to have a real conversation about these uniforms.
0:59.6	So let's take a quick break and on the other side, Tariff knockout.
1:04.0	And we're back.
1:08.0	It's just me, Josh Newburgh here, on the bench.
1:12.0	And this week I got my boy, Tariff. You guys know him as Tariff
1:16.0	knockout on Twitter. He's the leader of nobody focused. Twitter, you know that little
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 247Sports, Florida State, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State football, FSU football, college foo, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 247Sports, Florida State, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State football, FSU football, college foo and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.