Bear in mind I'm not arguing that Jimbo is trash. Only that I don't see a reality that matches his hype, of which he has a ton. Going forward will tell the tale as always, but I do note coming in the results haven't been much different from the last guy.
And I admit it matters to me that he tanked FSU. Much like Urban with Florida, they didn't leave those teams in great shape.
When Jimbo took over for Bowden FSU was in the dumps. He took them to a very high level, obviously winning the BCS championship. He brought them back into big time football. I don’t know what happened in 2017 except they started the season very highly ranked and lost their highly rated QB in the first matchup with Bama. After that it seemed like the team just kinda fell apart.
But to say that Jimbo is responsible for the downfall of FSU is utter bs. That responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of Taggert and the other coaches who followed. I get having a recruiting drop off but it was reported in the media that one of the reasons why Fisher left is he felt he wasn’t being supported by the AD in the facilities race. He was constantly pushing for better facilities, and going to war with the university over them.
Lots and lots of coaches come in to programs and it’s the same old story. Previous coach left the cupboard bare, lack of conditioning, bad strength coach.
They did it to Slocum when Fran ran the program slap into the ground, they did it to Mack Brown, Urban, on and on. But the thing is that hardly any of these coaches had as bad of records/games and just utter incompetence as Fran/strong/Taggart. Or Hoke, Zook. Take your pick. The dumb penalties, busted plays, lack of awareness, getting the coin toss wrong. This is your tattle tell of a bad staff/coaching. No matter the talent, you can see it just by how a team plays.
it took Jimbo 3 years to get A&M into the top 5, and 4 to Beat Bama. At a place that’s hard to win at.
