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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 2693996, member: 3201"]
Well, it wasn't clear what was meant by "FSU deserves a top 5 coach" means in practical terms, in regard to WT being not good enough.  FSU can't hire Saban, Meyer or Dabo, Jimbo left, so that leaves Peterson.  Otherwise, you have to do what they did, and what almost everyone does, because top 5 coaches are available extraordinarily rarely...you hire someone you hope turns out to be a top 5 coach.  That's all you can do.

Now, the only other option for "FSU deserves a top 5 coach" would have been to retain Jimbo, so that's what you were getting at, so I get it now.

There were lots of reasons that was both impossible, as well as undesirable.  The guy didn't want to be here, his personal life fell apart here, the program culturally was in freefall, and he was having diminishing returns, something like .500 in his last 20 conference games.  He hadn't shown any indication of correcting problems, in terms of coaching staff changes, player academics, modernizing offense, etc.

He was a great coach for FSU, and he may end up as a great coach for A&M.  But his time here ran out, just like Urban's time at UF ran out and that couldn't really go on there given their dropoff post Tebow and the absolute cesspool that program had become.

Money mattered, and FSU certainly wasn't going to guarantee him $75M, whether fans deserve that or not...they don't have the same resources as other schools.  But even if they did it was also much bigger than money.

Regardless of whether WT works out of not, the situation with Jimbo had become untenable.
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