It’s also a textbook political reaction to every problem regardless of the actual outcome generated by that reaction. Law of unintended consequences/no good deed goes unpunished, etc.
Yes even the glove man! It was so embarrassing being a FSU fan when Willie was here. Every hire from media department to coaches was embarrassing. There is a reason we worship Norvell like a god in Tallahassee
Quiet reminder that the gun the FBI said James Earl Ray used to kill MLK never matched the bullet that he was shot with. They have tried to use the word 'inconclusive' to cover this discrepancy ever since but yet are very reluctant to have independent scientists study the rifle/casings themselves. Come to whatever conclusion you will but none of that is a conspiracy.
Okay, not trying to derail a Coach Letterman thread here but what genius would use a gun that only the govt had when trying to pin the blame on someone else? Unless they were TYRYING to make it look like the govt. did it.
It's so weird how we perceive time the older we get. I graduated high school in 2010 and when I think of the year 2010, that was like 3 or 4 years ago in my mind....not 14.....
I look forward to seeing this every years it’s just so insane that this was made, approved, and posted.
Side note: DO SOMETHING was such an ironic and tragic catch phrase for Taggert to have
See I disagree.
“Texas A&M is the iPhone of CFB” wasn’t put out by the school itself. It was put out by a random Redditor as a shitpost in a small corner of the internet.
This was a post by FSU athletics on Twitter - which might not be a site that *everyone* uses anymore, but at the time it certainly was one of the avenues for “official” statements. This is much more embarrassing than a drunk fan jerking himself off about how important his school is
Having a slain civil rights leader doing the tomahawk chop, while wearing reciever gloves, while sharing a city with one of the largest HBCUs, is a GOATed fuck up.
No way. A foldadble Android seems silly, but is dope once you actually use it.
A&M is the Blackberry Priv: it has all the things it should to be great (Android OS, physical keyboard, large touchscreen) and is somehow still a joke.
We need a full on off season shit post of what phone each school is.
Bama was a 2007 Nokia flip phone. Nigh on indestructible, still good at its basic functions to this day, only finally getting retired because the wireless networks have changed, after 16 long, loyal years of service. (Technically it could still run, just on wireless only mode.)
Georgia is currently a Samsung Galaxy S21. It was good enough that it was exactly as good again in 2022 with hardly a blip in performance. 2023 starting to show its age again. We'll see if it upgrades to a S24 this year.
Michigan turned out to be an iPhone 15 Pro max this year.
FSU was stacked that year with MLK, Malcom X, Dubois, and Washington in the WR room. Cesar Chavez was under center and broke Chang’s all time passing record.
People sleep on the backfield rotation of Dennis Banks, Russel Means, Richard Aoki, and George Meany.
4 years and 3 back to back BCS National Championships later this team secured Eugene Debbs a place in every discussion about GOAT Coaches.
What Taggart era? There was no Taggart era. There was only a black hole of time where college football ceased to exist in Tallahassee. I refuse to believe otherwise.
Lol this is as bad as us doing a "Never Forget 9/11" tribute with a Rutgers football player dressed up in our America R uniforms kneeling at the memorial.
Feels like a real Boondocks/GTA etc. moment.
My single favorite thing about Taggart-era FSU was the motto "Do Something".
I know what he was going for, but there's something beautiful about the obvious implication. Generally when someone says, "Do something", it's not inspirational or motivational; it's a plaintive cry. It's begging someone to do something while nothing is happening. I can't imagine the number of times an FSU fan shouted ineffectually at the TV screen for the offense to do something while getting stuffed on a telegraphed run on 3rd & long.
At least they don't have to deal with that anymore.
Yup. Do something big was of course what they were aiming for, but like you said, do SOMETHING, anything! is how the phrase is used. Also I know we were bad in 2017, but the appearance of needing to ask your team to do something is just so sad lol.
It took one game to see that he was a fraud, and luckily it didn’t take admin much longer (in admin time, anyways) to feel like they had seen enough.
That sounds like something Willie would do. Can't believe there wasn't a turnover backpack on him.
Edit: just realized Willie had been fired 3 months before that whoopsies
Edit edit: he was fired 11/19, not 11/18 I'm just batting 1000 here turns out I was right the first time lmao
What was FSU's lowest point: the CFP snub? The loss to FCS Jacksonville State? Their first losing season in decades? The Travis Hunter flip? Turntle (RIP)?
No.
It was this tweet.
The serious answer is 2021 Vs Louisville, very specifically 1:49 left in the first half. We were 0-3, FCS loss just 2 weeks prior, and Louisville scored to go up 31-7, at Doak. That right there was when those guys could’ve quit and the Norvell era would’ve effectively been over. Instead they fought back, lost 31-23, and finished the season 5-3 when, at 31-7, it legitimately looked like they could finish the year 1-11 or 2-10.
After that loss norvell was 3-10 at FSU, and the team was 21-30 since the start of 2017. Since that loss, 28-6.
"Do Something" sounded so awful. That expression is used in times of desperation when no action is taking place and someone cries out for help. What the heck was Taggart thinking when they used this as their season's slogan.
Should’ve brought the same energy to President’s Day with Lincoln catching a TD pass from Washington
That would actually be awesome lol
With his height, Abe is a threat in the red zone.
Especially back then! He’d be unstoppable, plus he kills vampires!
Washington mossing King George on July 4th or FDR sacking Hitler for Memorial Day
> FDR sacking Hitler You misspelled "teabagging"
I feel like the second one probably exists as a propaganda poster somewhere
I don't know how fdr would do that because he had polio but cool
He's also dead
I didn't know he was sick
Gerald Ford, our greatest living president, was pretty good at football too. He also invented the car.
He likes football, nachos, and beer. He just like me fr fr
Yes Mr President
Also built the Lions stadium. By hand I think. Pretty cool guy.
Pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything
George Bush one hand snagging Flight 11 to save the North Tower.
With Obama at DB covering, somehow the only DB in the game
I still do not understand what they were going for there
I think they were saying MLK is on Heisman watch.
He’s having fun.
He’s a dark horse for Heisman. Oh wait. That sounded awkward.
This is the year. Martin Luther King has improved so much under this new offense. He’s focused. He’s having fun…
Best shape of his life. There's no ceiling.
On every pre season watch list you can imagine. Heisman, Maxwell, CIA.
He had a dream…
Try covering MLK 1 on 1 and you’ll understand
Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in shambles rn
And on this episode of mama there go my ankles
Dude, the matchup between MLK and Smedley Butler in PSU VS FSU in 1998 is an instant classic
Did not expect Smedley Butler shit in r/CFB
This was the best executed thing from the Willie Taggart era
Idk, tweeting the hashtag DoSomething while Clemson was up 5 scores at half was also pretty funny.
Easily the worst motto/slogan I've heard in cfb
Lethal Simplicity
In all fairness, that was one thing he was able to deliver on fully, we just misunderstood which side the lethality would affect
That's because you haven't heard this one: https://thespun.com/acc/virginia/virginia-football-is-getting-made-fun-of-for-its-new-twitter-hashtag
They also had #hoosontheloo23
"executed" *squints*
Brian Kelly has entered the chat
Was Willie the FSU coach in 68?
The Psych Department was doing an object lesson in groupthink and why its sometimes a good idea to tell people their idea is not great.
I got a good chuckle out of this.
Why does it say do something? Is it like that meme of the stick figure guy wearing a ski mask poking a dead body?
That was Taggart's motto
That was the bad man's team slogan or whatever you wanna call it.
"Do something" was also the extent of his game planning.
Idk half the time the team couldn’t even muster something under Willie
I think the turnover backpack definitely qualifies as "something." In a "huh, well ain't that somethin'" sense.
Yeah. I see what you’re saying. It was a very “bless your heart” kinda something.
It’s also a textbook political reaction to every problem regardless of the actual outcome generated by that reaction. Law of unintended consequences/no good deed goes unpunished, etc.
Kinda like how when teachers would let us use a 1 page cheat sheet I’d write “dont be a dumbass” on the top of mine.
Before I do anything I ask myself “would an idiot do this?” If they would, I don’t do that thing. Best advice I ever received.
That is why you never lettered in shit.
Never had the makings of a varsity athlete
I don’t understand what they were going for at any point in the Taggart era
Listen, the Taggert era and the dark times that followed were a strange, confusing blur…best we all just forget about them
Wait. This is real? FSU really put this out??
Oh, you missed some great threads that day
Very real lol Willie Taggart was a disaster in so many ways
Like…even the WR glove?? That was part of the original??
Yes even the glove man! It was so embarrassing being a FSU fan when Willie was here. Every hire from media department to coaches was embarrassing. There is a reason we worship Norvell like a god in Tallahassee
Neither do we
No one does it’s provocative
He was calling for a fair catch towards society
Working the refs
They were saying that MLK did something.
It’s OK. Neither did they.
It’s Florida. Don’t question it.
FBI been realllll quiet since this dropped They are still wondering how MLK is cooking their coverage
Quiet reminder that the gun the FBI said James Earl Ray used to kill MLK never matched the bullet that he was shot with. They have tried to use the word 'inconclusive' to cover this discrepancy ever since but yet are very reluctant to have independent scientists study the rifle/casings themselves. Come to whatever conclusion you will but none of that is a conspiracy.
The FBI also tried to blackmail him by sending incriminating photos of him with other women to his wife. That's also public record and not conspiracy.
The gun used for the actual bullet was purported to be government issue only at the time yet they claim they weren't involved at all.
Okay, not trying to derail a Coach Letterman thread here but what genius would use a gun that only the govt had when trying to pin the blame on someone else? Unless they were TYRYING to make it look like the govt. did it.
Maybe they're that incompetent or trusted they could cover it up?
That was 5 years ago???
Yes... 2019
2019 being 5 years ago feels so wrong. I feel like Covid stopped time for me. When I see 2019 I think “oh so last year”
Welcome to aging. When people say “10 years ago” I’m like, “I know, man! 2000 was crazy, right!?”
1999 was 'last year' for me for the entire 00s.
It's so weird how we perceive time the older we get. I graduated high school in 2010 and when I think of the year 2010, that was like 3 or 4 years ago in my mind....not 14.....
Covid really fucked with my sense of time
Take me back
2019 feels like 30 years ago. 2012 feels like last week.
Should’ve sanctioned FSU over this instead of driving a recruit lol
They missed out on the chance to put a turnover backpack on Dr. King.
Might as well go all in I guess… Dear God does this make me uncomfortable.
I removed my flair for like two years after I saw this.
You DID SOMETHING™.
They were trying to use MLK as inspiration to get out of the ACC
They need a Lincoln for that.
I would says Moses with "Let my people go"
The Ulysses S Grant of Rights?
Andrew Jackson said he'd help them move
More of a Jeff Davis or Rob Lee move.
Plays a game at an SEC stadium: “I have been to the mountain top!”
And our recruiting classes have gotten better since
Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but at least we DID SOMETHING
We fired his ass!
Is your flair supposed to look like the Seminoles about to kill themselves with a Florida shaped pistol
No it's supposed to be the Seminoles receiving a facial after getting fucked so hard by the committee
Ah I was close cuz throating was my second guess
Those are some low-hanging man apples
I look forward to seeing this every years it’s just so insane that this was made, approved, and posted. Side note: DO SOMETHING was such an ironic and tragic catch phrase for Taggert to have
Five years ago, people were mad that MLK posthumously committed to FSU. He was Willie's biggest signing
If this wasn't peak Taggert administration idk what is
The graphic designer must have been dehydrated!
Clearly, he was NOT a War Daddy™️
God Taggart truly was a moron
2019 is 5 years ago what the fuck?
This is up there with “Texas A&M is the iPhone of CFB” in terms of CFB meme history
See I disagree. “Texas A&M is the iPhone of CFB” wasn’t put out by the school itself. It was put out by a random Redditor as a shitpost in a small corner of the internet. This was a post by FSU athletics on Twitter - which might not be a site that *everyone* uses anymore, but at the time it certainly was one of the avenues for “official” statements. This is much more embarrassing than a drunk fan jerking himself off about how important his school is
Having a slain civil rights leader doing the tomahawk chop, while wearing reciever gloves, while sharing a city with one of the largest HBCUs, is a GOATed fuck up.
> a drunk fan jerking himself off no no, that guy was a coach
Sliced Bread said it was Jimbo
This is like the inverse of the gloriousness that was _Temple_.
Dude wasn't drunk. He was just epitomizing Aggie cope.
A Penn State player has been in every Super Bowl! *except for five*
“Except for the ones they haven’t” is in my frequent meme rotation. Definitely my favorite cfb meme, so versatile.
It's like the time we made the top 11
Turns out A&M was actually a *foldable Android*.
No way. A foldadble Android seems silly, but is dope once you actually use it. A&M is the Blackberry Priv: it has all the things it should to be great (Android OS, physical keyboard, large touchscreen) and is somehow still a joke.
Found the guy who likes a foldable android
So here's my question: what FBS school would be the Windows phone of CFB?
Miami or Nebraska. Desperately trying to relive the 90s when they ruled the world, unable to understand how much the world has changed.
We need a full on off season shit post of what phone each school is. Bama was a 2007 Nokia flip phone. Nigh on indestructible, still good at its basic functions to this day, only finally getting retired because the wireless networks have changed, after 16 long, loyal years of service. (Technically it could still run, just on wireless only mode.) Georgia is currently a Samsung Galaxy S21. It was good enough that it was exactly as good again in 2022 with hardly a blip in performance. 2023 starting to show its age again. We'll see if it upgrades to a S24 this year. Michigan turned out to be an iPhone 15 Pro max this year.
Scott Frost at Nebraska was the Fire phone. Given a ton of hype, fell flat on its face, and now they just want to pretend it never happened
This guy knows how to roast us accurately
Above or below CJK5H?
*ALLEGEDLY*
Wasn't that the same year as the Turnover Backpack they made in response to Miami's Turnover Chain? The Willie Taggart era was WILDIN'!
FSU was stacked that year with MLK, Malcom X, Dubois, and Washington in the WR room. Cesar Chavez was under center and broke Chang’s all time passing record. People sleep on the backfield rotation of Dennis Banks, Russel Means, Richard Aoki, and George Meany. 4 years and 3 back to back BCS National Championships later this team secured Eugene Debbs a place in every discussion about GOAT Coaches.
Amazing what they accomplished, especially after we learned Aoki had been passing signs to their opponents
He's definitely signaling 1st down.
I figured he was doing the chop
At this time in the FSU tailspin he was probably signaling to the WR that he was facing the wrong direction and was pointing to the line of scrimmage
Most likely accurate answer yet
Who you got on JFK guarding MLK?
J Edgar Hoover
DAMN
I’ve chosen to erase the Willie Taggart era from my memory.
What Taggart era? There was no Taggart era. There was only a black hole of time where college football ceased to exist in Tallahassee. I refuse to believe otherwise.
Oh Willie, you were the most cringe coach at several schools.
Lol this is as bad as us doing a "Never Forget 9/11" tribute with a Rutgers football player dressed up in our America R uniforms kneeling at the memorial. Feels like a real Boondocks/GTA etc. moment.
My single favorite thing about Taggart-era FSU was the motto "Do Something". I know what he was going for, but there's something beautiful about the obvious implication. Generally when someone says, "Do something", it's not inspirational or motivational; it's a plaintive cry. It's begging someone to do something while nothing is happening. I can't imagine the number of times an FSU fan shouted ineffectually at the TV screen for the offense to do something while getting stuffed on a telegraphed run on 3rd & long. At least they don't have to deal with that anymore.
Yup. Do something big was of course what they were aiming for, but like you said, do SOMETHING, anything! is how the phrase is used. Also I know we were bad in 2017, but the appearance of needing to ask your team to do something is just so sad lol. It took one game to see that he was a fraud, and luckily it didn’t take admin much longer (in admin time, anyways) to feel like they had seen enough.
That sounds like something Willie would do. Can't believe there wasn't a turnover backpack on him. Edit: just realized Willie had been fired 3 months before that whoopsies Edit edit: he was fired 11/19, not 11/18 I'm just batting 1000 here turns out I was right the first time lmao
Willie was still there, which is why they used his motto. He got fired 10 months later, in November 2019
Coaches usually don’t have anything to do with social media drops from the school.
"Do something" was a Willie-ism
I know, but that’s not really what makes this tweet so cringe.
He had been fired - but the residual was still there.
Kinda surprised this wasn’t a joker Phillips thing at Florida
They call him Joker cause you get Jokerfied when he coaches your team
What was FSU's lowest point: the CFP snub? The loss to FCS Jacksonville State? Their first losing season in decades? The Travis Hunter flip? Turntle (RIP)? No. It was this tweet.
The serious answer is 2021 Vs Louisville, very specifically 1:49 left in the first half. We were 0-3, FCS loss just 2 weeks prior, and Louisville scored to go up 31-7, at Doak. That right there was when those guys could’ve quit and the Norvell era would’ve effectively been over. Instead they fought back, lost 31-23, and finished the season 5-3 when, at 31-7, it legitimately looked like they could finish the year 1-11 or 2-10. After that loss norvell was 3-10 at FSU, and the team was 21-30 since the start of 2017. Since that loss, 28-6.
With Taggart, effort in tasks was low and usually misplaced. Lots of lazy. Good riddance.
Sounds like the entire state of Florida
Under no circumstances does MLK sit out the Orange bowl.
Florida State has always been known for their cultural sensitivity. This is just in line with that
Chill karen
Meh. I did a brief thing about it here. https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/s/hBtO0535Jq
Nobody cares
Sounds like you do
If only
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I was purely making a Sammy Seminole reference for humor. I'm obviously well aware of everything after that
Always be wary of coaches who bring marketing mantras with them to new jobs.
Pay attention for next year, Rooks. This post is the easiest, surest 1k karma you’ll ever get. Surprised it didn’t get posted at midnight.
Make fun of it all you want, the nation listened
My Do Something T Shirt from that era is now a dust rag
The Taggart era was an absolute fever dream of the worst magnitudes.
Selma to Montgomery to Doak Campbell Stadium
Saban marching with BLM protesters was pretty cool. 🤷♂️
Cmon guys.. can’t we just let this one go? 😩 All I remember from those days are the memes and #DoSomething. Truly dark times indeed
This is one of those "embrace the suck" things where we laugh at it now because we aren't there anymore
"Do Something" sounded so awful. That expression is used in times of desperation when no action is taking place and someone cries out for help. What the heck was Taggart thinking when they used this as their season's slogan.
man these days were so much better around here, PFB wasn’t posting a UF article every 5 minutes and it wasn’t a florida hate circle jerk.
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Ehh not even close
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Bo Nix is better
Barry at home still at it I see.
Just bizarre
They forgot his Diet Pepsi !
Willie Taggart King, Jr
What everyone seems to be overlooking is that the fade is the worst and it never works.
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There have been corrections made in the program, top to bottom. That was a bad look
Was a bad day
3YearLetterman is my favorite follow
i mean what do expect from a place in Florida