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OriginalGeek

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15. FSU had to get someone in because Jimbo left for Texas A&M before their last game even
Wed Dec 13, 2017, 02:51 PM
Dec 2017

Taggart has a lot of ties to the area being from Bradenton and coaching at USF. He grew up a Nole's fan and we Nole's fans are happy to have him. He has a history of good recruiting and he's taken over losing schools and brought them all to winning records.

As for the legalities and moralities of the contracts and buy-outs and all that - I imagine schools have all that built-in or they wouldn't let coaches do it.

I've had a sore spot about Jimbo since his part in ousting Bobby Bowden to get the "dream job" he always wanted. Now it looks like it wasn't so much a dream job. I don't think he did as good as his record would indicate either - I think he skated a lot of his early success off Bobby's back.

Then again, as great a coach as BB was, he turned out to be a tRump supporter - but since he's no longer the FSU coach I reckon that doesn't matter much. I figure it was senility and religion making him think stupid things. Which may be why they got him out of FSU earlier than he seemed to want to go.

I just hope Willie gets a chance to make this his dream job. I look forward to FSU winning again.

Who I feel more sorry for is UCF. Coach Frost took them from losing to undefeated and then left for HIS dream job - I imagine UCF knew all along the Nebraska alum would want to go back there some day. Just kinda hoped they could have enjoyed a few more years of success with him.

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