Florida State football had their previous General Manager Darrick Yray navigate over to the UCLA Bruins. The West Coast is where he is most comfortable, so it fits that he moved back over there. The fan base used him as a scape goat of the failures over the last couple of years, for good or bad.
While I don't think that Yray should have been the talking point with everything bad happening at Florida State, the portal evaluations over the past two offseasons were horrendous.
The transfer portal window is coming up in a hurry, so the Seminoles needed to have someone in place to man the General Manager position.