{"id":272008,"date":"2026-05-15T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272008\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:06:13","slug":"florida-state-seminoles-football-coach-mike-norvell-shares-a-defiant-message-while-squarely-on-the-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272008\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State Seminoles football coach Mike Norvell shares a defiant message while squarely on the hot seat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida State Seminoles head coach Mike Norvell confidently flexed his credentials this week as a play-caller, which stems from the team\u2019s 2023 ACC Championship season<\/a>, plus his days as the Arizona State Sun Devils<\/a>\u2019 offensive coordinator and Memphis Tigers\u2019 head coach from earlier in his career.<\/p>\n

Norvell, while at the ACC Spring Meetings, told reporters<\/a>, “I’ve been really good at calling plays throughout my coaching career \u2026 I don’t say that in any way other than it’s just true. I feel very confident in our ability and who we get to coach.”<\/p>\n

Norvell\u2019s not wrong. He turned Jordan Travis into one of the NFL\u2019s hottest quarterback prospects before a career-ending injury in November 2023. At Memphis, he had Brady White leading the Tigers to a New Year\u2019s Six bowl.<\/p>\n

Norvell\u2019s pro-style offense never ranked outside of the top 15 during his four years in Memphis. In 2022, FSU was a top-20 finisher in points per game and yards per play. 2024 could probably be written off as a DJ Uiagalelei year.<\/p>\n

Mike Norvell\u2019s 2026 season as FSU\u2019s play-caller is make-or-break<\/p>\n

The Seminoles\u2019 NIL\/rev-share spending has fallen off in recent seasons. That, coupled with Gus Malzahn\u2019s sudden retirement<\/a> in February after the team\u2019s transfer portal investments had been finalized, probably points to Norvell being on a fairly hot seat heading into the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Confidence is good before the season starts. Norvell\u2019s level of confidence probably set him up to be clipped, but at the same time, this statement could be seen as a rallying cry if things shake out for FSU.<\/p>\n

A Week 3 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide<\/a> in Tuscaloosa could probably be forgiven, but not if it follows a loss to the SMU Mustangs<\/a> in an early make-or-break game. Norvell almost certainly doesn\u2019t survive a 2-5 start<\/a> and a loss to the Miami Hurricanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see if his play-calling is up to snuff enough to survive a tough start to the season, and a schedule that doesn\u2019t ease up much by November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State Seminoles head coach Mike Norvell confidently flexed his credentials this week as a play-caller, which stems…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-272008","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\/272008","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=272008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}