At 1-8 on year, FSU's Mike Norvell admits he's 'shocked' by 2024 season
Florida State’s head football coach is as surprised as anybody with the way this season has gone.
During his Monday press conference, following his team’s eighth loss in nine games, Mike Norvell was asked many big-picture questions about his program and how he plans on finishing out this season and turning things around going into next year.
He was asked about coaching changes, personnel changes, and what can be done to improve this product moving forward.
But he was also asked about his own view of Florida State’s season and if he could have believed anything like this was even possible back in July.
“I am shocked in where we are,” Norvell said. “It really has been shocking some of the things that have kind of evolved this season as we have experienced defeat.”
He brought up the preseason and how the one concern he had was how his new team would handle the moment when things went well and how it would handle moments that didn’t go well.
As we all have seen, the 2024 Florida State Seminoles don’t handle much of anything well. Which is why they’re 1-8 and currently 25-point underdogs heading into a showdown with No. 10 Notre Dame on Saturday night in South Bend.
“It is one of those things I don’t always have the answer to, why some of these situations or circumstances occur,” Norvell said. “If you knew all the challenges that were going to come on the back end of it, would you do something different (before the season)? … Of course.”
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The only thing he can do now is make the best of things in these final three games and try to fix his Florida State program after the season. However, he wouldn’t go into detail about what changes might be coming.
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Perhaps that’s a matter of timing. Norvell’s team has a game against one of the top teams in the country this weekend, then a bye week, then a home game against Charleston Southern before the finale against Florida.
If any changes are going to be announced for this staff, this season, it would seem that after the Notre Dame game might be the time that makes the most sense.
Either way, as Norvell said on Saturday night and reiterated again on Monday, he is focused on getting this program back to where he says it belongs. And trying to do it as quickly as possible. But his concern right now, he says, is Notre Dame.
“There’s going to be a change in what we’ve seen this year to next year coming up,” Norvell said. “But right now, my entire focus is right now on these next three games to go be the best we can be.”
Florida State’s fifth-year head coach also added: “I am aware of where we are, the things that have happened. … Why did this happen? Why have we come up short? What are the issues? And what can be done, changed, addressed, all of it, that will allow us to take a monumental step here next year and the future of the program?”
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