It was just over two calendar years ago that FSU football made the announcement that Willie Taggart, who had turned around programs like Western Kentucky and USF before one season at Oregon, was going to be the 10th full time head coach in the history of the program. Fans cheered and sites like this predicted big things (I think I said Orange Bowl berth in year one).
A total of 23 months and 21 games later, Taggart was fired with a 9-12 record – one of the worst for any full time head coach of the Seminoles since long before Bobby Bowden took over – that continued what was a downhill slide at the end of the tenure of the previous coach.