College Football · Orlando Sentinel

Mike Bianchi: FSU should tell Brian Kelly, Jimbo Fisher or anyone else — win first and then you get paid like a king

Published by Orlando Sentinel on November 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM ET

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida State finally fired head coach Mike Norvell on Sunday, and now the Seminoles are facing a buyout of roughly $50 million. Fifty million dollars! That’s not a buyout. That’s a Powerball jackpot for financial malpractice. But FSU had reached a point where it had to do it. The program was collapsing, the fan base was toxic and keeping Norvell would have likely ended up ...

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