As Florida State’s future in the Atlantic Coast Conference continued to fuel plenty of rumors and speculation Monday, FSU President Eric Barron spent at least part of his day trying to deliver a message to the university’s alumni, fans and other stakeholders.
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Just as the rumbling rumors of Florida State moving from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big 12 had begun to hush, here came the Saturday afternoon bombshell.
“How do you not look into that option?” asked Andy Haggard, chairman of Florida State’s board of trustees, to Warchant.com. “On behalf of the Board of Trustees I can say unanimously we would be in favor of seeing what the Big 12 might have to offer.
“We have to do what it is in Florida State’s best interest.”
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TALLAHASSEE — Of all the questions the Athletic Coast Conference hopes to answer this week at its annual spring meetings in Amelia Island, the most pressing may revolve around Florida State.
Are the Seminoles leaving the conference, or not?
Thanks to a rather frenzied Saturday that included telling comments from the school’s board of trustees chair and football coach about a potential move from the ACC to the Big 12, the contingent of FSU administrators heading to the meetings will have to answer that question and many like i
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Florida State Athletic Director Randy Spetman told the Orlando Sentinel on Friday that his school is “committed” to staying in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Spetman may be the only one who thinks that way.
Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher, before he spoke at the Seminole Club of Greater Orlando on Saturday, didn’t exactly shoot down rumblings that FSU will explore the possibility of leaving the ACC for the Big 12.
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In wake of Paterno death, it’s time for Bobby Bowden, FSU to become one again
Time for Florida State and Bobby Bowden to get back together again; to put the hard feelings and scarred feelings aside and reunite before it’s too late.
“None of us are getting any younger,” says former FSU president T.K. Wetherell, the man who had to make one of the hardest decisions in college football history two years ago when he asked the iconic Bowden to step down. “We’re not going to live forever.”
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