‘I did my best’ FSU head coach Mike Norvell cries out after awful lose to Florida and plea for……. full article below ⬇️

Florida State’s 2024 season came to an end Saturday night with a 31-11 loss to the Florida Gators inside Doak Campbell Stadium. The Seminoles finished the season 2-10 and 1-7 in ACC play, their only win over an FBS opponent was the Cal Golden Bears back in September.

Head coach Mike Norvell spoke with the media after FSU’s latest loss and vowed that he would get Florida State fixed.

Just like I told the team there in the locker room, this is getting fixed. It’s going to be an immediate, fast fix. We are going to make sure that every person a part of this program is all in in that process for what’s necessary to go be better in how we respond, in how we continue to fight, develop, to execute, to go out there and perform to win the game and putting everything that we have to be the best we can be.

And it’s going to start here in the off-season.

Norvell also addressed the postgame scuffle, the reported hire of Gus Malzahn, the coming offseason, and more. Read everything he said below.

First off, extremely disappointed in today. Made too many mistakes throughout the course of the game. Turned the ball over five times. Too many negative plays. Their offense, lacked explosive play. Had our shots. Had opportunities. Just couldn’t capitalize on them.

Defensively we gave up the explosive play. Missed tackles. You know, couple times missed communication. Didn’t fit where we needed to be and they took advantage of that.

You play in a game like this, I mean, you got to play with passion. You got to play with control. You got to make sure that with all the emotions that you have, it still comes down to discipline and fundamentals.

When you turn the ball over like we did, puts you an extremely difficult situation to have success. Unfortunate learning experience for some young players, but something that ultimately this game means so much to our program and to what we’re about, and absolutely nowhere near the standard of how we want it to be and what it needs to look like.

So it’s a disappointing ending to an awful season. It’s the best way I can put it. Very disappointing that we performed the way we did. There’s a lot of circumstances that have shown up. Had our fair share of adversity and some things outside of our control and some things we did control.

Had a lot of young players that got opportunities and had to kind of get thrown into it before maybe their time. But with each of those reps they got, it’s an opportunity to grow, opportunity to build upon it.

Just like I told the team there in the locker room, this is getting fixed. It’s going to be an immediate, fast fix. We are going to make sure that every person a part of this program is all in in that process for what’s necessary to go be better in how we respond, in how we continue to fight, develop, to execute, to go out there and perform to win the game and putting everything that we have to be the best we can be.

And it’s going to start here in the off-season. Obviously we have recruiting. Signing day here this next week. We’ve got the portal I guess recruiting season opening up. That will be our focus of high school and potential additions of transfers coming in.

Then starting in January and really leading up, everything to that point it’s going to be our focus to bounce back as a program. That is what we’re going to do. It’s going to take an incredible amount of work. It’s going to take a unique set of guys that are going to come in here. The ones that are returning and the ones coming in, be prepared to fight every day for our identity and for what we’re all about.

I’ve got a lot of confidence in who I’ve got in this locker room that will be returning and a lot of confidence in the guys that we’ll be bringing in to help on this journey. This is done being the way that we played this year.

Obviously I take full responsibility in that. Went through the season, a lot of evaluation, a lot of areas where we have to improve and where we have to get better.

I’m willing to do what’s necessary to make sure that we don’t ever have a season anywhere near what we put on display here this year.

So to the Florida State fans, the University, past players, even the guys in that locker room, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for what showed up throughout the course of this year. It will be fixed.

There were layers to events that happened throughout the course of the season. It’s every area of the program has to improve, has to be better when it comes to all elements of our development, continuing to challenge the mindset, continuing to make sure that we are executing doing the things and being able to translate through the course of the game the things that we emphasize throughout practice, fall camp, the off season, because we did not do a good enough job of that.

It’s the coach’s responsibility; player’s choice. When it comes to the accountability of the actions that show up on the field, obviously did not do a good enough job as a coaching staff, and there is joint accountability in all of that.

I’m solely responsible for all things, right, that happen within this program.

But everybody that is within the program has to make that same choice. They have though make the same decision. Just as I told the team as we move forward, I want it all from every single person that’s in that locker room, a part of this team, people joining this team because we did do a good enough job of taking the things that we work and emphasize and push as values and standards within this program to not show up well enough on game days throughout this season.