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FSU Football Recap and Preview with Ira Schoffel · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  It's five minutes after and we turn the page on the rundown. Thankfully we
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  can push away from all of the noise and get to some stuff that really
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  matters, and that's football. Time to talk football FSU football in particular,
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  with the managing editor of war chant dot com. He is Iras Chaffel.
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  Good morning, Ira, How are you. I'm great? Present, How
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  are you? I'm good? Before we talk any specifics, can I just
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  get you to step back for a second and just talk about what I think
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  is one of the most amazing things I've seen in a very long time in
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  sports, what Mike Norvel has done in just four years here at Florida State.
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  Yeah. I mean when you do take you know, it's easy to
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  kind of get caught up in the week to week and what you're doing good
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  this week and what was better that this week than last week and all of
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  that. But yeah, there's no question, especially when you think about it,
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  it was wasn't that long ago. It was just over a year ago
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  that they lost those three straight games in the middle of the season, and
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  you started wondering, Okay, how's this thing going to work out with Mike
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  Norvel? And now they've won like you know what, fourteen or fifteen straight
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  and you know, right in the thick of the college football playoff races.
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  It's very impressive. I just marvel at the culture shift. And you know,
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  you hear that term a lot ira in sports, you know, changing
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  the culture of the team. It's one thing in pros because those guys are
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  paid to be professional. In college, he has somehow managed to get the
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  guys that have stayed with the program, stayed through the changes, stayed through
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  the turnover, and merged that with guys that have transferred in and and made
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  them all sort of I mean, they're rowing in the same direction, and
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  they care. They care a lot. Yeah, you could see it in
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  a lot of different ways, and I think that is you know, one
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  of the most impressive things he's done is that, you know, two years
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  ago or three years ago, when he go three or four years ago,
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  when he got here, obviously, when you had a player on the team
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  that was kind of like had a great attitude and worked hard and was a
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  professional and had that great approach, they stood out because there weren't a lot
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  of them doing that. Now, the problem for a kid if a guy
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  comes in and he's even thinking about being lazy or having a bad attitude or
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  talking back that stands out. So those guys have to kind of get in
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  line quickly. So you know, not every single guy he's brought in here
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  came in with a perfect reputation, but they've all bought in is pretty soon
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  after they've gotten here, and like you said, that, they all work
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  together. Granted, I think that a lot of these guys have the right
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  motivation in coming back for their senior year, to play one more year together
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  and to pursue a shot at a national title. But I'm beginning to think
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  that maybe I was a little wrong about this NIL deal, that it might
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  actually be good for college football and keep guys in school longer. I mean,
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  I think there's no question, and I was just like you, I
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  mean I was. My big question was even going into the season for Florida
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  State. It's no secret that a lot of these players have in IL deals,
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  and a lot of them chose to come back because they could make money
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  in college football. They didn't have to go pro and take their chances.
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  And so what I wondered about was, you know, where they still have
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  the same motivation, where they still care about each other. How would they
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  get along? They all don't have similar INIL deals. Some guys have opportunities
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  to make much more than other guys, and how would that work out and
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  all that. But the reality is that hasn't come to fruition. And I
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  think it speaks to again, this is a special group. I think that's
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  one thing. It's fair to say, we don't know that this works everywhere.
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  I do think this is a group of kids that came back for the
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  right reasons. Also, you know, a lot of these guys do have
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  ANIL deals, but a lot of them could have gotten bigger in IDL deals
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  honestly if they've gone to other schools, because there was kind of a bidding
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  war for you know, in the offseason. Jordan Travis, I think got
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  offers from other schools. Jared Verse certainly got offers from other schools, and
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  they chose to come to Fort State not because it was the highest bidder quote
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  unquote, but because they really thought they had a chance to do something special
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  and that and to put a bow on this part of the discussion today,
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  Ira that to me goes right back to Mike Norvel and his assistant coaches,
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  the staff. These players feel a connection. Yeah, they do. And
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  I think they also feel like they're being put in positions to succeed, you
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  know. I think that's also something that that's part of how you get to
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  buy. And also, you know, players could love a coach as a
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  person, but if he's not putting them in positions to succeed, well they're
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  they're not gonna love him quite as much. And I think the fact that
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  he does so many good things, they do so many good things as a
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  staff to give guys that answer an opportunity to shine, I think that's another
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  thing that gives you that buy. In the Morning Show with Preston Scott play
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  football season. Everything is there and that's at war chant dot com. Irisha
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  Feld, the managing editor with me Ira. When you look at where Florida
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  State is now, they are in the ACC title game, but that isn't
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  really even what everybody's looking at. They're looking beyond that. What would you
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  say to FSU fans that are all nervous and have their their you know,
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  their their knickers in a bind over what the playoff ranking is going to be
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  tomorrow, I would not worry about it because if Florida State stays on the
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  feed and they'll be in the college football playoffs, I just don't have any
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  doubt about that. You don't want to drop, you know, you don't
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  want to play poorly so that you drop out of the top four, top
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  five and give them even a thought of putting a one lost team ahead of
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  you. But if florest State wins out and looks decenter, looks good,
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  I think they're definitely in and they're gonna get some opportunities here. You know,
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  Miami and Florida are still big name schools even though they haven't had great
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  seasons. So I think Florestaate's fine. They just gotta keep winning. Would
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  it be fair to say that both Miami and Florida have athletes that if Florida
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  State does not play well and they do that, they can they can beat
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  Florida State one hundred percent. I think your pitt to me was the last
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  team on the schedule that Florist State wasn't going to lose unless they played poorly.
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  You know, for State, even with all those receivers out last Saturday,
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  they would have still would have to play poorly turn the ball over a
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  lot to have a chance to lose that game. Florida Miami are different.
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  I mean that. You know Miami's you know, they've lost three of the
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  last five games. They're they're obviously going through some struggles. They've got some
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  issues a quarterback, but overall, they have talent and they've got guys that
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  can make plays on both sides of the ball. You have to play well
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  in this game and against Florida, especially down in Gainesville to get those wins,
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  all right, help me out Miami at three thirty in the afternoon,
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  that just doesn't seem right. Yeah, I was really hoping it was gonna
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  be prime time. And I know that TV people have the reasons for making
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  these decisions based on what's on the other channels at certain times a day and
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  all that, and I know there's a lot that goes into it, but
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  it would have been great to be a night game. I still think it's
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  going to be a great crowd. I think I still think Florida State fans
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  are going to pack the stadium just because you know it's a chance to you
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  know, I think people smell blood with this Miami team struggling the way they've
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  been. If you look ahead now Florida State has three games left on the
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  schedule, then likely Louisville. But Louisville's got some tough games going down the
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  stretch. So if not Louisville in the ACC title game, who do you
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  think is the odds on favorite. It's really completely wide open. I wish
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  I could give you an answer, and I'm not convinced that Louisville is going
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  to get there. Yeah, you know, they thought they thought have to
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  play Miami, you know, they they're uh, I think they still played
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  Virginia. I believe Virginia has been decent lately, So I'm not convinced it
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  to me Louisville. And but after that, and you've got like, I
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  don't know, six seventeens with two losses, So it could be it could
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  end up be in a situation where you have, uh, one of those
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  you know, second, third, or fourth tie breakers that comes into effect.
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  I think it's really wide open, but Louisville controls their own destiny,
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  you know, and if they get it done, it'll be for State and
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  Louisville. All right, Now, let's get to what really matters. Ira.
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  I thought that Jordan Travis stayed out one series too long. He was
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  limping, favoring one leg or the other one series before he came off the
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  field in his last series, really limping. What if anything do you know?
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  Uh, you know, I don't know much. Well we should know
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  more this week at practice. He did not come speak to the media after
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  the game Saturday, which can you can make you pause a little bit,
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  But that's not the first time that's happened. And you know a lot of
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  times they're trying to get on the plane so quickly. If a player needs
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  any kind of treatment or anything like that, it's hard to get them to
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  come to interviews. Just from watching Mike or excuse me, after watching Jordan
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  Travis for these last three or four years, I mean, there's no way
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  he's not gonna play. I don't know if he's gonna be one hundred percent
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  or not. He looked like he was running one hundred percent on Saturday.
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  We'll see if you can get back to this this week, but judging on
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  history, I would bet on Jordan being fine. Do you have any sense
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  that they held out Keon Coleman and Johnny Wilson as a just to be safe
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  and give them one more week of rest. Do you think they'll be ready
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  to go? That's my theory. Mike Norvell is never gonna say that,
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  and he certainly would never fit that he set them out when they could have
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  played, But that is my theory. I think they knew that they could
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  not lose the Pit unless it was a complete disaster, because that Pit offense
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  wasn't gonna score, and so I think that that's what they did. And
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  I think that there's a good chance for those both feedback, along with maybe
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  a couple one or two other players as well as Saturday. So I think
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  four s eight. I'm not as worried about the health of receivers have looked
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  on Saturday. I think they'll be okay on this Saturday, Ira, I
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  can't wait for the weekend. It'll be a lot of fun and of course
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  we'll talk about it on Monday next week. Thanks as always for your time,
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  Thanks pressing you too, Take care all right, Irish chaffel with us
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