{"id":14497,"date":"2025-10-21T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14497\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:30:06","slug":"cbss-bud-elliott-suggests-mike-norvell-may-not-be-the-only-on-fired-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14497\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS&#8217;s Bud Elliott suggests Mike Norvell may not be the only on fired in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">After everyone (briefly) thinking that Mike Norvell had saved his job by defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide and starting the season 3-0, people are once again calling for the Florida State Seminoles&#8217; head coach to be fired.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">Now, the Seminoles are 3-4 and <a href=\"https:\/\/chopchat.com\/mike-norvell-failed-as-a-recruiter-and-took-fsu-football-down-with-him\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norvell is once again sitting on one of the hottest seats<\/a> in the country, unless you were to ask Florida State athletic director Michael Alford, who just backed Norvell.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">In a statement released by Alford and the athletic department, the <a href=\"https:\/\/chopchat.com\/michael-alford-just-proved-to-fsu-fans-that-this-job-is-too-big-for-him\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AD promised that Norvell wasn&#8217;t going anywhere<\/a> before the season ended. Bud Elliott, a college football analyst for CBS, is now calling for both men&#8217;s jobs.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"61\">In his podcast Upon Further Review, Elliott said it&#8217;s obvious that Norvell&#8217;s time in Tallahassee needs to come to an end. However, he also said that there clearly needs to be a change higher up in the program, saying that FSU should look into finding a new athletic director as well as a head football coach.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Upon Further Review <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5s6K3u2IZn\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/5s6K3u2IZn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bud Elliott (@BudElliott3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BudElliott3\/status\/1980288216906575881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 20, 2025<\/a>Who is Michael Alford?<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6a\">Alford first took the job at Florida State in 2021 after serving as Central Michigan&#8217;s athletic director from 2017 through 2020. The five years before his time at CMU, he was the associate athletic director for the Oklahoma Sooners.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6d\">Before then, he held positions at Alabama and with the Dallas Cowboys. While he has years of experience within the world of college football under his belt, he doesn&#8217;t necessarily have the AD experience necessary to guarantee the success of a program like FSU.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">Sure, he earned his master&#8217;s degree in athletic administration from the University of Arkansas, but the education isn&#8217;t translating to success in real life. Since 2021, the Seminoles have gone 33-25 in football, including just two winning seasons (2022, 2023).<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">While football isn&#8217;t actually everything, it pretty much is when it comes to an athletic department&#8217;s success (which is focused almost solely on a program&#8217;s revenue).<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">Norvell undeniably needs to be done at Florida State, but maybe the Seminoles&#8217; athletic director needs to find a new place to call home, too.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After everyone (briefly) thinking that Mike Norvell had saved his job by defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-14497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}