Parsing through FSU’s troubled season

When Link Jarrett took over as Florida State’s manager, there was a lot of excitement around the program.

Jarrett was just coming off taking Notre Dame to the College World Series and immediately got to work in Tallahassee reshaping how the field would look. Fans expected that attention to detail to find its way onto the Seminole baseball team as it had in past stops for Jarrett but so far this year little of that has been seen and the team looks like more of a mess than ever before.

The biggest issues that Jarrett has faced have been largely outside of his control: youth and talent/development. They obviously go hand in hand but under Mike Martin Jr., FSU had a very high attrition rate,…