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Message: [QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 1592123, member: 3201"] Actually, it is pretty serious. He has two young sons that are always around the program, and the younger one has a very rare and incurable blood disease called Franconi's anemia. Unfortunately, the lifespan of someone with this disease is less than 30 years. He and his ex-wife have founded and promoted an organization ([URL="http://www.kidz1stfund.com"]www.kidz1stfund.com[/URL]) to push toward treatment and cure, particularly finding marrow donors, as marrow transplants are the one life-extending treatment. The entire Florida State family has been fully behind and ultra-supportive of the efforts, as has to some extent the rest of the ACC. Coincidentally, former UVA coach Mike London also has a daughter with this affliction. There's some real community investment behind the efforts in Tallahassee, who had already gotten to know Jimbo's kids, and were crushed by the diagnosis as a fan base. Certainly any new job would embrace those efforts as well, but it might not be quite the same. On top of that, the key point in the above is EX wife. They were a very public couple, who divorced over the summer due to a fairly scandalous situation that was semi public (not something Jimbo did). So for him to leave raises very complicated custody issues, and would very likely significantly affect the time he would have with his sons (which is already limited as a coach obviously). Finally, the change in president at FSU, and maybe to a lesser extent the AD, has resulted in what is reported to be an extremely close working relationship/friendship with Jimbo, and so if/when he leaves, it might be less likely to be for a organizational structure that so publicly showed their a$$ like LSU's just did. Again, that's not to say he won't leave in the future, as I expect he will. But at this moment, FSU has not only shown that it's going to invest the resources to not easily be simply outbid for staff or out-facilitied, but there is this additional stuff as well that makes FSU a tough situation to beat for Jimbo right now. [/QUOTE]

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