Sep 17, 2026 · 54 min · 20 segments
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But right now, let's get to the lead because there was also big news this week at Florida State where Athletic Director Michael Alford is at.
I think there are a lot of people who were surprised to see this news outside of Tallahassee.
But those who've been following Florida State, not necessarily surprised that this was the first move the administration decided to make.
I had extensive conversations with multiple people familiar with the situation.
in Tallahassee, and it became clear that there was growing friction and tension among Alford, the university, the board, and Seminole boosters to the point where President Richard McCullough told me earlier this week they just lost confidence in Michael Alford as their leader moving forward as they try and figure out the direction to take Florida State Athletics in this whole new modern college football landscape.
Where have we heard this idea that there's dysfunction at Florida State before?
Yeah, you can go in the old Google machine and turn up a story you and I did in 2020 talking about the dysfunction at Florida State between Seminole Boosters and the Board of Trustees and presidents and the AD and the head football coach and everything was going terribly.
Look, we'll get into Alford a little bit more here, but I want to start by saying that's what Michael Alford and Mike Norvell inherited.
For all the folks out there chanting, we want Jimbo, a couple of weeks ago, like Jimbo left this as a mess there to begin with.
Michael Offer did some very good things in getting finances a little bit back on track, getting renovations to both the stadium and the football offices done, which were long overdue.
But you were behind the eight ball on this because Nobody had done anything for so long.
Florida State is in a much better place, including, by the way, being able to get out of the ACC a lot cheaper if they choose to do that because of Michael Alford.
The revenue sharing distributions from the ACC have changed entirely because of Michael Alford's insistence on discussing these things and pushing for these things.
Once these universities now started to get involved in, well, there's all this money that our athletic department needs.
Then that makes the athletic director's job a little bit harder in terms of, okay, how are we going to figure out how to spend the money? Because the university and the board now are involved in how to spend the money.
But right now, let's get to the lead because there was also big news this week at Florida State where Athletic Director Michael Alford is at.
I think there are a lot of people who were surprised to see this news outside of Tallahassee.
But those who've been following Florida State, not necessarily surprised that this was the first move the administration decided to make.
I had extensive conversations with multiple people familiar with the situation.
in Tallahassee, and it became clear that there was growing friction and tension among Alford, the university, the board, and Seminole boosters to the point where President Richard McCullough told me earlier this week they just lost confidence in Michael Alford as their leader moving forward as they try and figure out the direction to take Florida State Athletics in this whole new modern college football landscape.
Where have we heard this idea that there's dysfunction at Florida State before?
Yeah, you can go in the old Google machine and turn up a story you and I did in 2020 talking about the dysfunction at Florida State between Seminole Boosters and the Board of Trustees and presidents and the AD and the head football coach and everything was going terribly.
Look, we'll get into Alford a little bit more here, but I want to start by saying that's what Michael Alford and Mike Norvell inherited.
For all the folks out there chanting, we want Jimbo, a couple of weeks ago, like Jimbo left this as a mess there to begin with.
Michael Offer did some very good things in getting finances a little bit back on track, getting renovations to both the stadium and the football offices done, which were long overdue.
But you were behind the eight ball on this because Nobody had done anything for so long.
Florida State is in a much better place, including, by the way, being able to get out of the ACC a lot cheaper if they choose to do that because of Michael Alford.
The revenue sharing distributions from the ACC have changed entirely because of Michael Alford's insistence on discussing these things and pushing for these things.
Once these universities now started to get involved in, well, there's all this money that our athletic department needs.
Then that makes the athletic director's job a little bit harder in terms of, okay, how are we going to figure out how to spend the money? Because the university and the board now are involved in how to spend the money.
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