I had to unblock him temporarily again to see what Finance was whining about again. But yeah...the Democrat is to FSU’s athletic office as Fauxnews is to the White House, just a propaganda arm. Everyone knows we were shot down by Rhule immediately and Fleck eventually as well as Franklin demanding too much, Campbell turning down a Taggart level offer as he’s probably waiting on Texas, Michigan or another Southwest or Midwest team to open up and Bob being in negotiations with us.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/247spo...anklin-Seminoles-Mike-Norvell--138875496/Amp/
“FSU courted Franklin during this process and the two sides went far enough to negotiate. A concern throughout the courtship, however, was that Franklin was leveraging FSU for an extension with PSU.
Franklin joins Iowa State's
Matt Campbell as an FSU candidate that ended up getting an extension with his current program.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/fighti...fsu-said-to-be-interested-in-brian-kelly/amp/
The only bit of information I relayed that hasn’t proven to be 100% dead on was the Bob Stoops candidacy maybe or maybe not lingering. And that’s because I was continuing to get info from boosters that they were being told by the Booster Org and football admin that Bob was still who was coming. And if you look back, I repeatedly said I knew he was still in contact but I didn’t think he was coming. But everytime I would say, that’s it he’s done. Warchant would leak rumors or a booster would tell me he was a done and coming.
So to the extent there was misinformation getting relayed it seems to be 100% Bob related and limited to Warchant and boosters. Everyone I talked to outside of the boosters whether a blogger, admin, sports agent or attorney was convinced Bob was talking but not coming. It was just boosters being misled whether from an “echo chamber” of just talking with each other and hyperinflating the odds just because Bob was talking to us or because the booster org wanted to generate false excitement to get $$$ or maybe even a purposeful misinformation campaign by Sugiyama to cover up our actual misses. Whether intentional or not, the media only talks about us whiffing on Bob and don’t really mention at all the others. If it’s framed as FSU got its seventh choice it looks bad. If it’s framed as FSU couldn’t convince Bob to come out of retirement and went with an eager young hire instead it looks good.
And honestly, despite some lingering concerns about his personal background and lack of experience and proven track record, so far I’ve loved everything he’s done. His introductory press conference speech was one of the best I’ve seen. If we do end up with Lanning as DC, I’m really liking his staff choices (although I do hope he’s talking to TBuck formerly at Mississippi State as DB coach. He’s a Seminole legacy obviously and a tremendous DB coach). And his immediate start to recruiting is looking good. So I’m mostly won over.
