Scorching Hot Takes after Ninth Straight ACC Loss - Norvell Is Done, What Now?

Unconquered with Doc Staples

Jason A. Staples

Football, Sports:football, Sports

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🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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0:00.0	Well, that'll pretty much do it for the Mike Norvell tenure.
0:04.9	From the EPR creation studio, this is Doc Staples bringing you unconquered with Doc
0:10.5	Staples in a immediately after Hot Takes podcast that I didn't really expect to be doing
0:16.0	at 221 in the morning because, look, I mean, I expected this to be a multi-win score by Florida
0:23.8	State. Not because Florida State's played especially well, not because they've been a good
0:27.8	team this season after that Alabama game, but because this Stanford team was really bad
0:33.3	when I reviewed them. And this is a team you have no business losing to. And I almost said this in the
0:39.5	in the pregame, in the in the preview that, and I, you know, I'd been in text threads with people
0:45.9	where I had said it, where, you know, you lose to this Stanford team and this is tarmac firing
0:51.7	territory. And well, yeah.
0:57.4	Honestly, though, even if they had come back at the end there and they had a chance to
1:02.0	win this game, chance to go into overtime and potentially win this game there at the very
1:05.7	end, even if they'd come back and won this game, it was over.
1:09.4	I mean, look, you can't move on. And the
1:12.8	reason for that is it was pretty apparent in the first half that this team has quit, or at least
1:20.3	that they've quit on Mike Norvell. And once you reach that point, that was, it's the same thing
1:26.4	that I said to to that I said about
1:27.8	Willie Taggart a few weeks before he got fired.
1:31.4	Whereas like, look, it's one thing if there's dysfunction, if there's other thing.
1:35.0	It's another thing once your guys quit on you.
1:37.9	And that's where they were here.
1:40.4	And, you know, you want to know the reason, the primary reason why this team, why this program has gone over a calendar year without, without an ACC win.
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