{"id":902755,"date":"2026-11-02T02:08:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902755\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T02:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:08:31","slug":"florida-state-football-fsu-fires-defensive-coordinator-tony-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/902755\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State football: FSU fires defensive coordinator Tony White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Accountability has come for the Florida State coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">First came Mike Norvell. Defensive coordinator Tony White has also been relieved of his duties after less than two seasons in Tallahassee, as first reported by Pete Nakos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">White was brought in prior to the 2025 season as part of a major assistant coaching staff overhaul following the Seminoles\u2019 dreadful 2024 campaign. He\u2019d spent the previous two seasons at Nebraska after serving three years as Syracuse\u2019s DC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">FSU finished 28th nationally in total defense in 2025, a major rebound after finishing a paltry 86th in 2024. A hallmark in his career is the trend of White\u2019s defenses taking major steps forward in Year 2 of the scheme, but that hasn\u2019t happened in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">White\u2019s defense has given up over 537 yards in four games this season \u2014 537 to Louisville, 567 to Alabama, 583 to Miami, and 585 to SMU. Its PFF national ranking in total defense after eight games? 128th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Yes, you read that right. There are only 10 teams ranked lower in total defense than the Florida State Seminoles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It remains to be seen if this move will help FSU\u2019s on-field performance, but it represents another step toward the complete overhaul the football program needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accountability has come for the Florida State coaching staff. First came Mike Norvell. Defensive coordinator Tony White has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[11398,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-902755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-florida-state-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}