{"id":116167,"date":"2026-01-13T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116167\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:25:15","slug":"fsu-football-hires-experienced-and-productive-coach-to-improve-special-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/116167\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU football hires experienced and productive coach to improve special teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The special teams for Florida State football have been a major disappointment in the Mike Norvell era, aside from a couple of individual efforts here and there. FSU special teams coach John Papuchis<\/a> accepted an assistant coaching job at Missouri, leaving a void that needed to be filled. <\/p>\n

FSU officially announced the hire of Adam Scheier, an experienced and productive special teams coach. He has coached at several places with success. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida State has announced UNLV\u2019s Adam Scheier to be its new special teams coordinator.<\/p>\n

Scheier has spent 25 years as a special teams coordinator at schools, such as UNLV, Temple, Rutgers, Miss State, Texas Tech, Ohio State, Wake Forest, Bowling Green, Lehigh, and Princeton. \ud83d\udd25 pic.twitter.com\/enWGN5uiBW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Norvell Central (@CentralNorvell) January 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

FSU is a place where special teams should always have electric playmakers. The days of players like Deion Sanders, Peter Warrick, \u00a0Kermit Whitfield, Greg Reid, and others making game-changing plays seem so long ago. <\/p>\n

Special Teams have largely been a failure at FSU since Mike Norvell placed such high emphasis on that unit in his introductory press conference in December 2019<\/p>\n

Special teams can play a vital role in the success of a college football program. The ability to change field position with a huge punt or kickoff return or make a long field goal(or field goal consistently for that matter) can be the difference in winning and losing games. <\/p>\n

That has been missing at FSU, and frankly, special teams have COST FSU wins over the past few years. The inability to field a punt and make a productive punt return has been nonexistent, except in the year Keon Coleman took it upon himself to return punts.<\/p>\n

Scheier\u2019s special team units have produced wherever he\u2019s been for the most part, and FSU should have enough talent on the roster to create explosive plays consistently with good coaching. <\/p>\n

Micahi Danzy and Sam Singleton have the potential to be explosive kick returners. We’ll see what happens at punt returner. FSU is in need of a field goal kicker since Jake Weinberg entered the portal. We’ll see if this new coach has connections to get someone FSU can trust in 2026. <\/p>\n