“It’s been a really tough season, and, like I said, for our fan base, I understand the frustration. There’s no fan more frustrated than I am,” Norvell said to the media on Monday. “There’s nobody pouring more into these players and this program than our staff. I watch the work, and has it been good enough? No, it hasn’t.”

Norvell and the Seminoles will need to take a serious look at themselves in the mirror to address some of the issues that have surfaced this year. Whether it is recruiting, evaluation, or off-the-field issues that have started to come to light, complacency, whatever the issue is, will need to be ironed out because the ‘Noles have three tough opponents ahead with a very bleak outlook on whether they will be able to come home with a win at any one of them.

Norvell said that he was well aware of how this year’s team has performed and that he is most certainly evaluating all aspects of the team. While not specifically saying that staff changes were imminent, one could only wonder what could be fixed to take the ‘monumental’ step needed to turn the program back around.

“I am aware of where we are and the things that have happened. Some of the things I have been evaluating throughout the course of the season and over the last few years of one, why did this happen? Why have we come up short? And what the issues are, and what can be changed or addressed that is going to allow us to take a monumental step this next year and the future of the program?” Norvell continued. “But what I can tell you is that there is going to be a change in what we’ve seen from this year to this next year.”

Norvell went on to say that he was shocked at the outcome of 2024 and that he envisioned a different team than one with a losing record that takes two hands to count.

“I am shocked in where we are, and it was not expected. You look at some of the results we have faced and the circumstances that have shown up. When you go into a season, you have a picture in your mind of what things are going to look like. I’m not blind to it. Like I said, I’m optimistic but also aware of the challenges, and I knew there would be some,” Norvell said. “I don’t think we’ve handled the negative or defeat well or been able to bounce back from them.”

Whatever the case may be, Florida State has opened up as a 26-point underdog against the Fighting Irish and will likely be headed into another bloodbath in South Bend this Saturday.

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