My second favorite away game that year. First, being Clemson.
#1000pages FSU Third Natty (Women’s Soccer 2021 & 2023, and Cheerleading 2023 achieved)
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Yep. Remember watching at an official watch party, us fans so nervous and ESPN giving like 20 minutes of coverage to Clemson team driving around the stadium and running down that stupid hill all fired up and then…we kicked the ever living crap out of them.
FSU on a solid game ending finish. Bol Bowen, Ewin, Watkins… Skrong!
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He was virtually perfect in that debut. Iirc he was 25-27, 4 TD passes and a run for a td...and I think one of the two incompletions was a drop.
And I think one was incorrectly called out too! Shaw had a foot in.
Not trying to stir the pot, but is this infact going to be Coach Hams final year? Or has this team’s surprising success coupled with the horrible football year and lack of movement in leaving ACC caused him to be in line for a new contract?
I feel like everyone (fans, coaches, players, administrators) last Spring / Summer assumed it to be the case because of the downward slide AND the fact things got so bad with players leaving and who we were getting, it looked like we would have by far the worst team in ACC. The lack of a new contract spoke for itself. Add to that how everything was great with the baseball team back and playing its way into Omaha, a football team we thought destined for maybe the playoffs, and a feeling we would be out of the ACC soon. So it seemed a foregone conclusion that 2025 was the time to invest in a new basketball coach and team after the season was done
But now the Football program stumbled hard, the dream of leaving the ACC seems delayed for many years and FSU basketball is in top 1/3 of ACC standings and 13-5. It also appears Hamilton has not made it clear he is done so add to this you now have a legendary coach you would have to now let go having a decent year, making this even more difficult to do vs if finishing near the bottom of conference and having a losing record.
If they keep winning and given the smoke we are not in great spot financially, he may get a new contract for a few years. I suppose some of this will be based on how much he wants.
Cliff notes, love him or hate him, Coach Ham might be here another 3-5 years if we keep winning.
Good post, nc2.
I hope that he is able to go out on a high point, whether this year or in the future. He brought the program back from the abyss and had a legitimate shot at a Natty ended by Covid.
Still, he will be judged by “what have you done for me lately”. Last year’s NIL heavy squad was a bust and I hope he can lean into his longtime formula of “developer of talent” mixed with a lesser number of transfers.
Watching D. Davis, Bol Bowen, and Nitu today gives me hope that this can be a way forward.
Realistically, a series of one year contracts may be best for all as Ham and the program move forward.
I wished I had the post from a gator board saying something like "I think they have a good one there boys"
Hate it when FSU and BC play, the unis always confuse me.
edit - and that formula seems so easy, why not repeat it. Couple really good RB, solid Oline, NFL caliber QB and a freak WR/TE combo. Just build a team like that again and a title should just arrive.....
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He has enough $, getting tired of the NIL issues may be too exhausting. Every school needs an entire business unit to just manage the contracts and money.
Whenever he leaves, I agree on wanting it to be when he is on top. But I'm just not sure he will ever get that title.
I learned what a TE was that game. Who knew you could throw to them? Wild stuff.
Crazy, right? Hey, did you know that TE was Jack Nicklaus’s grandson?
Is that true?
You would have thought the color guy would have mentioned it, but they never did.
Did you know that Jabril Peppers is going to miss the Orange Bowl?
In an earlier interview, she mentioned the dedication to rebounding that she exudes. The willingness to go all in on a very tough task speaks a lot about character.
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I thought Ham was about to call it quits in October similar to Tony Bennett but was talked into one last year? For some reason I thought I read that in this thread but maybe it was from someone else I was chatting with.
ahem...
I didn't want to be greedy, just "the high points". It would be silly to hope for such a stacked squad like that these days, FSU can't afford it.
