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On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

Norvell is a ‘Nole (Episode 176)

On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

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

Sports, Football

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Recapping FSU’s hire of Mike Norvell, a hectic hiring process and what’s up on the recruiting trail now that a coach is in place.


Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to be. I can confirm the field was painted and the stage was set. On Sunday afternoon

0:27.6

Florida State announced Mike Norvell as the Seminole's new head coach.

0:37.5

Welcome to On the Bench. I'm Josh Newburgh and today I'm joined with Chris Knee and Brendan Sonone and we're going to add our intern

0:41.1

Zach Blosting shortly. With our powers combined, we form NOL's 24-7.

0:46.8

This is our first podcast since the Norvel hire, and I wanted to host this one because Chris,

0:52.3

Brandon, and Zach, you guys did a phenomenal job of covering

0:56.3

everything yesterday from the ground. I really enjoyed what you guys did. I was glued to it all day,

1:01.7

the videos, the the stories the message

1:03.6

board updates I was here holding down the fort in St Pete but you guys made me feel

1:09.2

like I was there so there's a lot to talk about and let's get right into it.

1:14.0

Mike Norville is the new head coach, Chris Knee.

1:17.0

Give me your thoughts just generally speaking on the search and the hire.

1:21.0

Well, it was about a 35 day search.

1:24.1

Obviously, a lot of ups and down, some weird twists and turns.

1:27.4

But the truth is, after the initial target of Bob Stoopes

1:30.2

was off the board, which was around the time

1:31.8

of the Democrat report on that

1:33.1

Friday three weeks ago now roughly that kind of ended that portion of the search

1:38.3

and the remainder of the search was really going to be on the back end

1:41.0

because people were coaching games.

1:43.0

In Mike Norvella's case, he was coaching a conference championship game.

1:46.7

His team, Memphis, won the AAC championship on Saturday, beating Cincinnati at Memphis.

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