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BREAKING: FSU FIRES Michael Alford | Is Mike Norvell NEXT? · FSU Football: Doak Talk

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's going on Seminole Nation? It's CJ Wilson here
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  Speaker 1: with Dope Talk. We got some absolute breaking news for
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  Speaker 1: you guys. As you can see, I'm in my damn
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  Speaker 1: car getting this video off. I'm moving around throughout my day.
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  Speaker 1: Had to bring you this information. Of course, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure you guys already saw it. FSU has decided to
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  Speaker 1: part ways with Athletic Director Michael Alfred. Some breaking news
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  Speaker 1: that just broke this morning. FSU has decided to part ways.
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  Speaker 1: with current, well, I guess you could say former athletic director,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Alford. Make sure you guys hit that like button
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  Speaker 1: and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. So
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  Speaker 1: pretty much this is just the wheels kind of getting
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  Speaker 1: in motion in regards to what's going to happen with
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  Speaker 1: the future of FSU football.
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  Speaker 2: Move on the fire, Mike Alford.
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  Speaker 1: Shocking news as far as the timing, but not so
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  Speaker 1: shocking if you kind of follow the tea leaves or
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  Speaker 1: just been kind of hearing the rumbles around the program
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  Speaker 1: and what may happen as far as the future of
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  Speaker 1: Mike Norvell. I guess you could put two and two
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  Speaker 1: together now with the firing of Athletic Director Michael Alford.
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  Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time for Mike Norvell, I
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  Speaker 1: do think. it'd be a process where the new athletic
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  Speaker 1: director is hired and he fires Mike Norvell and hires
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  Speaker 1: his own football head coach, you know, due to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: once he comes in, bring his, bring his guy, his
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  Speaker 1: own guy. And as far as being a head football
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  Speaker 1: coach with the new athletic director, um, And to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: which I do think this decision is kind of, he
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  Speaker 1: laid his bed with extending Mike Norvell or giving Mike
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  Speaker 1: Norvell that huge extension. I'm not fighting Michael Alford. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like he, as athletic director at the time, he
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  Speaker 1: had to do that. You had to give him some
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  Speaker 1: new money. I guess my only question would be how
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  Speaker 1: many years that Mike Norvell has got on the extension
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  Speaker 1: but that's another conversation that was my only I guess
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  Speaker 1: you could say question mark but if you read the
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  Speaker 1: tea leaves of the fan base the whole Nick Saban
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  Speaker 1: thing going to Alabama can you lose our coach to
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  Speaker 1: Bama can't let him do this can't let him do
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  Speaker 1: that we gotta retain our coach that type of deal
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  Speaker 1: and that's what Mike Alfred did he pretty much gave
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  Speaker 1: the fans what they wanted and extended Mike Norvell at
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  Speaker 1: that point in time coming off the 2013 season assessed
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  Speaker 1: for 22 to 22 and 23 I forget how many
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  Speaker 1: games or so we won in the world during that
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  Speaker 1: point in time.
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  Speaker 2: And shout out to Jimmy Sexton.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, multiple times he pretty much got multiple
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  Speaker 1: head coaches paid, new extensions, whatever it may be, due
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  Speaker 1: to that one domino effect of.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Saban retired.
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  Speaker 1: A plethora of head coaches got new deals at their
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  Speaker 1: current school, and they also got, you know, or new
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  Speaker 1: deals at their current school or a was actually hired
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  Speaker 1: by Alabama and Kevin DeBoer, who's also a client of
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Sexton. But when you lose 19 of your last
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  Speaker 1: 25 FBS games, I mean, come on now.
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  Speaker 2: The writing's on the wall. So I do feel like Alfred.
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  Speaker 1: Tying himself to Norvell and being a little bit too
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  Speaker 1: loyal to Mike Norvell is one of the reasons he
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  Speaker 1: got canned. I think that should have been the decision
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  Speaker 1: as far as firing Mike Norvell. It should have happened
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  Speaker 1: last year, in my opinion, after the Stanford game. As
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  Speaker 1: a result, you pretty much got yourself fired by kind
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  Speaker 1: of tying yourself to the situation. But my only my
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  Speaker 1: biggest act, so to speak, with Michael Alford, as far
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  Speaker 1: as the job he's done with FSU, is just the
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  Speaker 1: the rev share and distribution thing.
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  Speaker 2: I know the 20 million dollar cap that was raised.
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  Speaker 1: Ruled by the NCAA, pretty much following those guidelines and
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  Speaker 1: not being proactive in this new era as far as NIL.
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  Speaker 1: As you guys know, a lot of the big-time programs
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  Speaker 1: are not following that $ 20 million threshold, so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: for the NIL portion or the rev share or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it may be. They're tapping into the collectives that we
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  Speaker 1: pretty much had at one point in time when battle
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  Speaker 1: was in, but they're tapping into their collectives to fund
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  Speaker 1: the remaining balances to Well, not remaining balance. It's just
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  Speaker 1: a bridge to get between $ 20 million and whatever else
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  Speaker 1: is needed to compete in college football to this day.
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  Speaker 1: So that's my only gripe with that is not being
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  Speaker 1: proactive with this NIL dollars and bending the rules, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak, because everyone else is doing it, just speaking frankly.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot of good things that Michael Alford
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  Speaker 1: did do for Florida State, in my opinion, to kind
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  Speaker 1: of lay the groundwork for the next step in competing
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  Speaker 1: and being competitive. National contenders on an annual basis, of course,
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  Speaker 1: stadium renovations. I feel like modernizing dope was a big
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  Speaker 1: piece to continue to get money into the program, right?
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's ticket sales, the old modernization entertainment style as
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  Speaker 1: far as the box seats and the the club level
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  Speaker 1: stuff and all that type of deal, having events in
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  Speaker 1: the offseason to bring revenue in, the football-only facility, top
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  Speaker 1: of the line, one of the best in the country
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  Speaker 1: by far. Mike Alford definitely specialized in facility building and
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  Speaker 1: that type of deal, and I feel like he did
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  Speaker 1: a really good job in that regard as second to none.
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  Speaker 1: He also did force the ACC into the rail sharing deal.
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  Speaker 1: As you guys know, that was a terrible deal that
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  Speaker 1: we got into pretty much a 360 deal. contract deal
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to rap and that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a 360 deal pretty damn much with the
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  Speaker 1: ACC as far as distribution for TV rail sharing. Alfred
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  Speaker 1: Spearhead did that. So a lot of good things he
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  Speaker 1: did do. He did end up, he was the lead,
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  Speaker 1: he was the leader on the charge of pinning the GOR,
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  Speaker 1: the G-O-R, as well. He just laid the groundwork for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things as far as FSU getting out
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  Speaker 1: of the conference, getting out of the ACC and landing
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  Speaker 1: in a new spot. Pretty much when nobody else did it,
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  Speaker 1: Alfred was one of the few that jumped in front
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  Speaker 1: of everything and took the run.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, FSU got.
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  Speaker 1: Crucified, as far as you know, going against the conference
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  Speaker 1: and that type of deal. And the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: league pretty much started falling in line with the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the teams in the league that actually matter from
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  Speaker 1: a TV standpoint started falling in line.
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  Speaker 2: And you see the results from that. So again, good
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  Speaker 2: stuff from Alfred on that end.
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  Speaker 1: So the only X in my opinion is a bad
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  Speaker 1: football product as a result of Mike Norvell failing.
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  Speaker 2: And again, the.
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  Speaker 1: NIL distribution, rail sharing, whatever it may be. But you
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  Speaker 1: can kind of put the two leagues together. This is
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  Speaker 1: the first domino to fall. I think the next one
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  Speaker 1: will be to hire the athletic director. And right after that,
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  Speaker 1: I think Mike Norvell will be fired just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of time, in my opinion, as the new athletic director
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  Speaker 1: will want to make his own hire.
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  Speaker 2: For the football head coach.
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  Speaker 1: But, again, you go out and lay a goose egg
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  Speaker 1: against Alabama, I think that spread is like 20 points now.
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  Speaker 1: If they cover the spread and it's a lot uglier
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  Speaker 1: than that, then. We could get some more news next week,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll see how things play out. Again, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: this is some breaking, breaking news. As you guys can see,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't prepared at all, really, as I'm in my car
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  Speaker 1: recording this video.
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  Speaker 2: Had to get it out to you guys. Breaking news.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Norvell, well, not Mike Norvell. That'll probably be coming soon.
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  Speaker 1: But Michael Alfred has been fired as the athletic director
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  Speaker 1: for Florida State. Make sure you guys hit that like button,
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  Speaker 2: Go Nose.