TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State is searching for a new head football coach after Mike Norvell was dismissed, setting off immediate speculation across Tallahassee about who could be next to lead the Seminoles.<\/p>\n
Ross Brannon, who played offensive tackle for Florida State\u2019s 1999 national championship team, said the job requires a \u201cspecial leader of men\u201d and shared several names he said he has been hearing discussed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe names that I\u2019m hearing are guys like Manny Diaz, who was the Head coach at Duke, He was actually a graduate assistant at FSU when I was playing, and I know him and he\u2019s had some success,\u201d Brannon said. \u201cThere\u2019s other teammates of mine who are coaching., and you hear about Jake Dickard at Wake Forest that\u2019s an intriguing name. There\u2019s all sorts of lists and hot boards out there, some people are saying Brian Kelly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brannon also noted the program\u2019s limited coaching history. Florida State has had 13 head coaches and two interim head coaches in its history.<\/p>\n
Luke Fedlam, identified as a corporate and sports law attorney, said the next hire will need to handle more than football strategy.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have got a rich tradition at Florida State, you\u2019ve got a great athletic department at Florida State and so finding the right coach is finding that coach that can navigate not just the X and O\u2019s but also the business of sports that\u2019s happening,\u201d Fedlam said.<\/p>\n
Among the names circulating, Brannon said re-hiring Jimbo Fisher remains a frequent and divisive topic in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Jimbo Fisher and the Florida State head coaching job is about one of the most polarizing topics in Tallahassee,\u201d Brannon said. \u201cYou have some people who think he is the savior and some people who wish he would never show his face again in Tallahassee, so it\u2019s a pretty continuous argument there and that\u2019s a fun conversation with people who are pretty passionate about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Florida State, led by interim coach Rick Stock-still, is scheduled to play on the road Saturday at Boston College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State is searching for a new head football coach after Mike Norvell was dismissed,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-446047","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\/446047","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=446047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}