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The firing of Florida State athletic director Michael Alford this week cleared the first obstacle on the Seminoles' road back to relevance.
The complication is what fans have filled that cleared space with: a loud campaign to bring back Jimbo Fisher, a coach three years removed from the sideline whose most recent tenure, at Texas A&M, never came close to meeting expectations.
The read-through from Alford's departure is direct enough.
His tenure became untenable largely because of a 2024 decision to hand head coach Mike Norvell a massive contract extension carrying what the source describes as an almost absurd buyout, a move that looked questionable even when Norvell was trending upward.
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