{"id":74153,"date":"2025-12-07T05:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74153\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:06:15","slug":"fsu-football-dismisses-defensive-backs-coach-patrick-surtain-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74153\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU football dismisses defensive backs coach Patrick Surtain Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Florida State fired defensive backs coach Patrick Surtain Sr., who just wrapped up his third season with the program, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeteNakos\/status\/1996963657494692212\" rel=\"nofollow\">On3&#8217;s Pete Nakos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Surtain Sr. joined the Seminoles in 2023 following a stint with the Miami Dolphins as a defensive assistant.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season at Florida State, the team finished 13-1 and won the ACC Championship. After that campaign, cornerback Renardo Green and cornerback Jarrian Jones were selected in the top-100 picks of the 2024 NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Surtain Sr. produced another draft pick the following year as cornerback Azareye&#8217;h Thomas was taken in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the 2025 season, Florida State brought in Evan Cooper to coach safeties. Surtain Sr. retained his defensive backs coach title but mainly worked with the cornerbacks.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, Surtain Sr. helped redshirt sophomore Ja&#8217;Bril Rawls produce a breakout season. However, one of Florida State&#8217;s biggest acquisitions in the transfer portal, Jerry Wilson, essentially ended up being a bust.<\/p>\n<p>Depth turned into an issue at cornerback. Rawls and junior Quindarrius Jones were knocked out for the season. By the end of the campaign, FSU was starting a true freshman, Shamar Arnoux, on the outside as redshirt freshman and former top recruit, Charles Lester III, was unable to consistently find his footing.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State also had multiple failures on the recruiting trail. Notably, five-star safety KJ Bolden, four-star cornerback Jay Timmons, and four-star safety Tedarius Hughes all flipped from the Seminoles shortly before their respective signing dates.<\/p>\n<p>Surtain Sr. previously was a head coach at the high school level for American Heritage. He won three state championships with the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old spent over a decade in the NFL after being drafted by the Miami Dolphins in 1998. Surtain Sr. was a two-time All-Pro and a three-time Pro Bowl selection. His son, Patrick Surtain II, was selected in the first round in 2021 and is the reigning NFL Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if Florida State plans to pursue a new defensive backs coach or delegate the duties to Cooper moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, Florida State fired defensive backs coach Patrick Surtain Sr., who just wrapped up his third season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-74153","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\/74153","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=74153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}