Hey
@KirkHerbstreit
are you seeing this? That’s five FSU players in the first 66 picks of the draft and none of them is Jordan Travis. You should probably check these guys out they must be pretty good.
The FSU Board didn’t say we were “too good” for the ACC in August. They said being in the ACC will soon make it impossible to compete.
Turns out it was much sooner than even they believed.
This is why Kirk was hopping up and down like a little school girl when Alabama got their miracle to beat Auburn.
This is why he was going on profanity laced tirades about “best teams.”
ESPN knew.
Eventually someone is going to dig into how dramatically the betting odds on FSU and Alabama changed so dramatically hours before the “confidential” selection show.
The ACC: We will lock you into revenue from when Obama was up for re-election, under a contract you aren’t allowed to look at, and if you ever try to leave us you owe us over half a billion dollars.
Twitter: Why is FSU being such a dick about this?
Kirk was 100% out to get FSU, but it was never personal. Just business. Just shilling to protect ESPNs all in bet on the SEC. Who cares if it comes at the expense of kids who did everything right?
ESPN's Greg McElroy switches back on his initial stance regarding
#FSU
and the CFB Playoffs...
"Florida St. got robbed. Plain and simple. The fact that they didn’t make the playoff is a travesty."
#Noles
“If you’d told us that Washington would only score 13 tonight, we’d never have believed you.” — Chris Fowler, without a hint of irony or self-awareness.
I want to make sure I understand this correctly: in 2016 the ACC, under threats by ESPN, forced everyone to extend a contract based on 2012 money thru 2036. And ESPN doesn’t even have to guarantee the deal beyond 2027. But we are held to 2036.
If Clemson filed a challenge to the GR in South Carolina this whole thing would be over before New Years. But I think they’ll honor tradition and let FSU be the only ACC school with balls.
“Why won’t FSU just die a slow death at the expense of the university and single-handedly keep the worthless ACC solvent while CFB passes them by forever?”
Column: Step away from the college sports bubble, and you get a dose of perspective on the ridiculous nature of Florida State’s power play — and all the money grabs that came before it. Too much is never enough.
Between boxing themselves in with the SEC, investing $85 million in Pat McAfee, and daring the B1G to come take FSU and Clemson, it sometimes feels like ESPN wants to die.
Between inheriting Taggart’s crumbling program and roster on the eve of COVID, Travis Hunter, ACC drama, the CFP snub and fallout…yeah, this was all just Act I of Mike Norvell’s origin story as a supervillain.
The Orange Bowl is interesting because both teams don’t want to be there and have nothing to gain. UGA beats a hollowed out FSU, so what? FSU knocks off the SEC runner up and a 14-0 season ends without even sniffing a national title. So what?
Ward declaring hours after DJU to FSU news broke tells the whole story. He was waiting for us to come back to the table. We didn’t.
Miami was never in the game.
@OrangeBowlBoys
Hey, smooth brain, AAU membership is not a B1G requirement. It’s a nice to have. Kind of like it’s nice to have our own football stadium, a full length IPF, etc.
Love how three weeks ago ESPN openly mocked Texas for not passing the eye test, and made it clear that head to head win wasn’t the only metric that mattered.
People have no idea how much control media has over their perceptions of reality.
Hurricanes are basically just loud destructive masses of hot air blowing themselves, and most years they don’t even show up, and wow it really is the perfect mascot for Da U.
Nice to see national media guys call out the
@NCAA
on their obvious horse shit. This is far more damaging to what’s left of their reputation than it is for FSU.
Happy to see guys turning pro and sitting out the Orange Bowl. That invite was insulting enough. Excited to see some hungry young guys use it as an opportunity to fight for a bigger role next season. That’s about it.
Ostensibly the CFP made a business decision but I still believe, ultimately, this is because Saban is going to retire.
When things are this nonsensical there is always a human element. Always.
Couple of points from the ESPN article on EA Sports College Football 25.
• Real coaches won’t be in the game (at least for the first installment)
• NIL & Transfer Portal will be in the game
• You will not be able to create a player who chooses to not be in the game
• Only
The ratings to see FSU take on either Michigan or Washington with Rodemaker would’ve been out of control. This was the most dramatic storyline available. ESPN chose ESPN.
Seriously
@espn
fuck you. Fuck you for clouding this moment with your poison, and taking it from these warriors who left it all on the field to bring home a win, a conference championship, and yes, suck all of my cock, a playoff berth.
BREAKING: Elite 2025 EDGE Javion Hilson tells me he has Flipped from Alabama to Florida State!
The 6’5 230 EDGE committed to the Crimson Tide in December
He is ranked as the No. 2 EDGE in the ‘25 Class 👀
Harbaugh cheated in historic fashion, led Michigan to a championship that every media outlet validated without hesitation, openly used his cheating to negotiate a new UM deal, failed, and is now headed to the NFL.
And all of this is just fine. This is just who we are now.
What Willie Taggart did at FAU ends any debate on his coaching ability. He inherited a conference champion built by Lane Kiffin and I’m not sure he ever even made a bowl in four years.
One 10 win season at USF could only carry a career loser so far.
This season of FSU is like all those later seasons of LOST where you were like, THIS is the episode where we’re finally gonna know what’s going on, and then afterward you’re kinda into it but not really and still have no idea.
I don’t know which is funnier: that the ACC is asking the court to allow them to enslave FSU, or that their argument is that we somehow damaged them by showing people what they’re doing.