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On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

What Went Wrong with Willie, Part 2. (A cluster of an offseason)

On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Come for the Florida State football and recruiting news, stay for the nonsense. The Noles247 Podcast offers honest analysis from Brendan Sonnone, Chris Nee, and Zach Blostein.

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0:00.0

You're going to be. Welcome to On the bench. We got part two of the What Happened with

0:26.4

Willy podcast series. I'm Brendan Sinone. I got Josh Newburgh,

0:30.3

Chris knee with me. Fellas, good's it going great yes go great Brendan to the tree

0:38.0

I already butcher the first intro to this so I'm trying not to butcher the second one I know Josh I don't have to say it I'm

0:43.7

apologizing up in front again like last time I think that was good for the the first episode so

0:49.7

we're continuing our series with basically the debacle that was the Willie Tagger era at

0:55.9

Florida State and really the last episode was about the 29 or 20 excuse me 2018 season, what went wrong with him and basically the management

1:06.0

of the program and now we get into it I think is kind of the nitty gritty and that's Willie's

1:11.5

lone full off season at Florida State and guys it was a well Josh

1:16.7

I'll start with you to get your general thoughts on it was it was interesting and

1:21.1

seemed really really unorganized.

1:23.3

Yeah, there was a lot of, it was very tumultuous.

1:26.6

I think that would be the word I would use between recruiting, trying to find a quarterback

1:30.4

shuffling the deck there.

1:32.5

Coaching, trying to replace certain coaches,

1:35.2

trying to get rid of certain coaches.

1:37.6

Nothing went smooth and certainly nothing went quickly.

1:48.7

And that was something that we had seen kind of in the previous off season when he had a truncated window to kind of put a staff together that things weren't smooth and it didn't happen in a quick efficient

1:53.9

manner but it really gets magnified into the off season so we left off the last

1:58.3

podcast after the u f game ends of basically four decades of bowl games for Florida State to lose that contest.

2:07.3

You finish above, or sorry below 500 and after that game there is tension in the locker room there is frustration it

2:16.0

spills over to the point where guys are pointing fingers and arguing and it's

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