President, Hammerhead Communications
Specialties: Crisis communications/PR/Marketing
Former Publisher of The Tallahassee Democrat.
Weather hobbyist.
#Noles
By the way, if Brock Glenn starts (and don't read anything into that -- I have no inside info on this) and FSU were to somehow win, it would make it virtually impossible to argue that FSU is not playoff-worthy. Clearly this would be a complete team, not reliant on one player.
devastated. heartbroken. In so much disbelief rn, I wish my leg broke earlier in the season so y’all could see this team is much more than the quarterback. I thought results matter. 13-0 and this roster matches up across any team in those top 4 rankings. I am so sorry. Go Noles!
Why are Florida politicians leading a fight against
@CFBPlayoff
but
@theacc
is so quiet? Why isn't Jim Phillips all over TV? Where are other athletic directors? What does
@NCState
president think of what his AD just did to the conference?
Listening to Coach K's show with
@dannykanell
on FSU.
Amazing. A sample:
"When you lose a player ... a lot of time teams get better. They don't score as much, but people ante up. The resiliency of the team is shown."
MORE
So, the school with giant posters depicting a lynching, with players who spit on their opponents, who mocked a horrific injury and delivered cheap shots … are upset somebody clipped some grass and are calling that out as not being classy? Try harder.
FSU players cut a chunk out of the field with scissors and took a picture with it after beating the Gators 24-15. Police eventually came over to stop the damage.
#classy
@InsideTheGators
Someday, I want
@jordantrav13
to return to the scene of that injury, right there on the Seminole logo, I want him to take the spear from Osceola, and I want him slam it in the ground. As a Seminole legend, he deserves it.
This will be the first Thursday night
@NFL
game I won’t watch this season. Sorry
@PrimeVideo
but I no longer watch
@KirkHerbstreit
and encourage all
#Noles
to join me in staying away.
It’s killing the haters that an Orange Bowl loss will mean absolutely nothing. They want it to matter. They’ll halfheartedly argue it matters. But deep down they know it won’t matter at all. A 13-0 team was disbanded by
@CFBPlayoff
. End of story.
Look, this is no longer a matter of mounting evidence. It's just a proven fact: A new, never-been-used criteria was utilized to move
@ESPN
's new partner conference into the playoff and
@KirkHerbstreit
and others were accomplices. THE END
#Noles
"Who's going to beat Cincinnati?" Kirk Herbstreit believes Georgia, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Cincinnati will make the College Football Playoff.
@WLWT
#Bearcats
Hey
@GregMcElroy
-- I was so touched to hear you talk about how much you love college football as you called it a "travesty" to leave an unbeaten Power 5 team out of the playoff. What did you end up loving more, that caused you to completely reverse your position 4 days later?
"If it's the four best, then why do we play the games?... I look at the idea of an an undefeated power 5 team being left out as an absolute travesty." -
@GregMcElroy
4 days ago
Great find,
@jacksonbakich
.
Look, I know we all want to win the ACC and go to the playoff and keep winning. I sure do. But let's face it, we've entered the "icing on the cake" phase of the season.
12-0, state champs, national prominence. No. 3 recruiting class.
No matter what, this year is a success.
#Noles
Wait, Oregon?
Oregon?
Now
@ESPN
's biggest college football voice is saying a TWO-loss team that finished EIGHTH in the
@CFBPlayoff
poll should have gone in rather than FSU.
That's insane.
Because Alabama is BETTER!!
Period! So is Texas. So is Michigan. So is Washington. So is Oregon. So is Georgia. I watch 10-15 games a week live from September-early December. I think I’m allowed to have an opinion on who I think is BETTER!! If FSU doesn’t like itbis “The BEST 4”
Bobby Bowden, after turning down the Bama job in 1990: "I felt like FSU was my school. Alabama was Bear Bryant's school. No matter what I could have done as Alabama's coach, it still would have been Coach Bryant's program. I could never have topped his accomplishment there."
Notice how the non-
@Espn
sports media world and news media like the
@nytimes
are almost universally aghast at what happened. It's almost like ESPN is in bed with the people deciding who makes the playoffs. Oh wait, they are.
College football has always HAD the best regular season in sports. It doesn’t any more. My column on a 13-0 ACC champ FSU getting screwed by the CFP committee.
One thing that is clear is that the non-
@espn
media is really finding its voice on the network’s corruption. The question now is what journalist will blow the story open and what whistleblowers will help?
Man, this fanbase can be maddening sometimes. FSU appears to have lost a grand total of one committment this cycle. The roster is VASTLY improved, just 12 months removed from a 5-7 season. FSU will be pre-season Top 10, maybe Top 5. The glass is 90 percent full, people. Sheesh.
I have a huge default toward players in this era of college football. Go get paid. Go find playing time. Go find a good fit.
But don’t soak up all the QB1 practice reps before a bowl game then bail on your team as they are getting on the plane.
If Coach Norvell wants to lock up job security for a decade, all he has to do is meet Clawson at midfield for the pregame handshake with an umbrella and a care package of food.
I feel really really sorry for FSU fans who can’t take pride and pleasure in this game. A win would have been fantastic, but this was such a great indicator of an improved program.
Hey
@GregMcElroy
and
@danorlovsky7
-- when are you going to address your complete reversal on the
#Noles
in the days before the playoff was announced? Who asked you to change your position? Why did you agree to do it?
Can only hope that influential FSU boosters and the administration are able to tune out Internet fanboys who think Travis should be benched, Norvell should be fired and that all the plays that don’t work are bad calls.
This program is headed the right direction. Period.
If I were FSU’s legal team, I’d have interns monitor all
@ESPN
commentary on this story. The networks is clearly an accomplice in what has happened. If the network starts arguing the case through the media, there is a word for that: evidence.
You know, one thing the corrupt playoff committee stole from me was time to be grateful for this season.
Well, I’m stealing it back.
12-0. State champs. All we need. Death Valley. Keon’s hat trick. JT’s class. Coach’s charisma.
So, so, so much.
Blessed to be a
#Nole
Last year, Georgia rallied to beat Missouri with 14 points in the fourth quarter on its way to a national championship, 26-22.
If you think a narrow wins signal the end of a potential playoff run you are ignorant of history.
Survive and advance.
Go Noles!
Anyone who is throwing shade at or trying to take cheap shots at Florida State for being left out of the College Football Playoff last year must be out of touch with reality. FSU wasn’t a team that was kept out because they lost a game down the stretch. They are a team that were
Brilliant move by
@theACC
to protect perennial football cash cow UVA, fresh off a three-win season, with a live Spring Game spot. Meanwhile, FSU who is pre-season Top 10 and earns the league's highest TV ratings is on a third-rate internet stream ....
By the way, FSU ended the UF game on the Gator 20 and the L'ville game on the Cardinal 19. In both games, the Noles took over with more than 1 minute left. If FSU had scored, the UF final would have been 31-15 and L'ville 23-6. Would that have been enough? Is this what we want?
There is something happening at
@Seminoles
— amazing cultures are being built in multiple programs. Softball. Football. Soccer. And more. That can’t be an accident. Credit should go to
@SeminoleAlford
for his leadership over all FSU athletics.
Hey
#FSUtwitter
: It's time to mobilize. Doak is in desperate need of renovation. But folks who don't care for FSU are trying to stop money that has already been allocated for economic development from going to Doak. Hit LIKE if you support keeping Doak safe and sound for FSU!
So to sum up a few posts: This QB situation is a total nightmare for rivals/haters.
If we lose -- well, who can survive being down 2QBs and FSU went 12-0 and won state title -- nice bowl, big season.
If we win? Oh my goodness ... we will drink from the keg of glory.
#GoNoles
Look, there's no way
@KirkHerbstreit
would try to influence the
@CFBPlayoff
through back-channel communications and lobbying. I mean, that would be like calling a key recruit's dad and influencing where a 5-star QB might flip.
Uh, hold on ....
This an embarrassing, insulting response from Hancock, oozing contempt and entitlement. It barely scratches the surface of the issues here and has a mocking tone toward a U.S. Senator. Disgusting.
🚨BREAKING: The
@CFBPlayoff
just responded to my letter with more excuses & still NO TRANSPARENCY.
@FSUFootball
was
#4
before beating
#14
Louisville without Jordan Travis…but then after that win, the CFP thinks
#FSU
is a weaker team? It makes no sense. ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS!
The 2023 Noles went undefeated and that will be true tomorrow morning, no matter what happens in the game today.
This is an exhibition involving a completely different FSU team.
The haters hate that, but that's why they are haters.
#GoNoles
Great time on Coach K’s Basketball and Beyond show. Great convo on college football.
He told me “The committee got it wrong. What they did to Florida State was wrong. I can’t believe the coaches in that room let this happen.”
Full episode will be up later on the
@SIRIUSXM
app!
Wait, this is it? A car ride and the
@NCAA
wants 1 percent of the football budget? Who could possibly read this and then see the sanction list and think they are remotely proportional?
@RexChapman
Good rule of thumb -- if you are sending law enforcement to handle your own customers who aren't doing anything wrong, you aren't making things better.
What's so disgusting about this is Leonard Hamilton is running just the kind of program the NCAA outght to be lauding. Everybody graduates. Nobody gets in trouble. This is ridiculous.
@JayBilas
I’m up in North Carolina for the holiday. Spending the day shopping and walking the streets of Highlands. Here is today’s attire to make sure passersby get a big face full of
#Noles
.
BREAKING: New
@TheACC
court filing in Leon County case reveals
@FloridaState
has requested from the league information and documents regarding what the ACC knew about the College Playoff Football Committee's decision to exclude FSU.
This draft will bring an end to the buffoonish takes on FSU’s post-snub exhibition game. As many as 10 Noles, who wisely chose to ignore that exhibition, will be drafted or UFAs. Who knows how many will be drafted in the future. The game meant nothing.
#13
-0
I'd have more (but not much more) respect for
@KirkHerbstreit
@ReceDavis
@danorlovsky7
and company if they just told the truth: "Yeah, they used a different criteria than has ever been used because the powers that be needed an SEC team in the playoff and we shilled for it."
Hey Noles fans, how about taking a break from criticizing play calls or, really, anything? These players and coaches are doing all they can do with the hand they were dealt.
Third stringer starting.
FSU officially a Vegas underdog.
College football nation rooting against the Noles.
Tough opponent.
Championship on the line.
WOULDN’T. CHANGE. A. THING.
#GoNoles
"The one thing that gets overlooked is how bad everybody feels for the Florida State team..
We all love Florida State but if you follow the criteria that the CFP committee has this is what you come up with" ~
@KirkHerbstreit
#PMSLive
Kirk thinks he's going to show up in Ireland and meet a bunch of Noles fans who say: "Hey Kirk ol' buddy! Great call on FSU -- we definitely didn't deserve to be in the playoff! Don't know what all those 'fringe' fans are talking about. Come see us next time you're in Tally!"
ESPN layoff criteria: Anybody who says nice things about FSU or who is married to a former FSU player.
By the way, who does a layoff of TWO people?
@ESPN
annual revenue is $16 billion -- even if these two made a $1 million a year that's barely .001 % of annual revenue. SMH
Re:
@RexChapman
block vs. charge of dog vs. kid with Easter basket.
This is actually legal block vs. block in the back.
Dog clearly got his head across the bow, as seen from both angles.
No penalty.
“Brock Bowers not traveling with the Dogs.”
That’s it,
@MattBarrie
?
Anybody missing for FSU, like, say QB 1,2,4; RB1,2,3,5; WR1,2; TE1,3; CB1,2; DE 1, OT1 and others?
More
@ESPN
propaganda.
Hey
@ReceDavis
— I was talking to
@GregMcElroy
this morning about your
@AmericanAir
situation. While he seemed to take American’s side when it happened, today he feels you were clearly robbed and cheated and considers this a travesty.
It’s truly amazing that — upon their deaths — the unparalleled professional achievements of Mike Martin and Bobby Bowden still took a back seat to their amazing personal attributes and their commitments to family and to faith.
#RIP11
FSU fan base with 1 minute left: “Mike, don’t you dare settle for a FG!!”
FSU fans after game: “should have kicked.”
Also, if you didn’t like the play call, please direct me to the tweet from the first half when your criticized the same call after it led to a TD.
The Hancock letter makes me really question whether or not I will watch the so-called
@CFBPlayoff
on a so-called network, called by so-called announcers with the so-called top 4 teams.
"I thought once their QB got hurt, Florida State showed an even higher level of toughness. Whatever that defense did or special teams -- that wasn't recognized. It was a different way of being a champion."
Hey rivals/haters. Here's how it's going to work:
If FSU loses to UGA, it will be meaningless and due to opt outs and transfers.
If FSU wins, it will be complete vindication and we will open the sixth seal of plagues and inflict them on all of college football.
Deal with it.
The
@FSUChiefs
were off the charts for the UF game. I wish so much I had stayed for the playing of "Hymn to the Garnet and Gold." Give it a listen and wait until the camera pans for true chills.
FSU rivals in the midst of that delicious transition from “we didn’t want any of those guys anyway” to “how in the hell is Norvell landing these guys?”