 January 2013 ArchivesCourtesy of Seminole Productions, take a look back at all the best moments from the 2012 Florida State Football season: And here is a sneak peak at the FSU football behind-the-scenes show that will air on Sun Sports HD on Feb. 2: And here is some video from the team beach party before the Orange Bowl (including a Telvin Smith jet-ski face plant): Michael Snaer hit the fourth game-winner of his career Wednesday night against Maryland of course Gene Deckerhoff was there to call the action. Here's the legendary FSU radio play-by-play man's reaction to Snaer's latest big shot: Florida State quarterback EJ Manuel and kicker Dustin Hopkins are set to compete in the 2013 Quicken Loans All-Star Football Challenge. The event will air Feb. 2 at 10 p.m. on ESPN2 and will then re-air on ESPN2 Sunday, Feb. 3 at 4 p.m. and at noon Feb. 17. ESPN will also carry an encore at 4 p.m. on April 14. Here is a list of all the competitors:
Quicken Loans QB Accuracy EJ Manuel - FSU Obstacle Course Alec Ogletree - LB - Georgia Skechers GoRun Hands Competition Matt Elam - S - Florida Mercedes-Benz Lineman Strength Challenge Sylvester Williams - DT - UNC Speed Kick Dustin Hopkins - FSU
Below are the scheduled dates for the 2013 Jimbo Fisher Football Camp. For more information, call 850-644-7291.
June 8 Kicking Camp
June 9-11 Youth Camp ages 8 - 8th grade June 12 -14 High School Camp 1 June 15 Team Camp Linemen & 7 on 7 July 17-19 High School Camp 2
EJ Manuel became the second quarterback in three years to capture MVP honors of the Senior Bowl, thanks to his two-touchdown performance in Mobile, Ala. Saturday evening. He joins Christian Ponder as Seminoles that have earned such an honor.
Manuel finished the game 7-of-10 for a team-high 76 yards in the South Team's 21-14 victory. Manuel started the game with a two-yard rushing score and then added a beautiful 20-yard scoring toss on his next offensive series. (See the pass here.) Manuel then orchestrated a scoring drive late in the game that finished with a rushing score, meaning that all three of the South Team's touchdowns came with FSU's record-breaking signal-caller under center. Linebacker Vince Williams also had himself quite the game, registering big hit after big hit and finishing with six total tackles. Everett Dawkins had four stops and a half sack of his own and Dustin Hopkins hit all three extra points. Watch the complete highlights here on NFL.com and view the complete stats here. Devon Bookert's game-tying 3-pointer with less than a minute to play: Michael Snaer's game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer: Bonus - Here's the game-winning call synced over top of game broadcast:
With Thursday's news that James Coley has left his offensive coordinator position at FSU for the same role at Miami, the Seminoles are now up to six total losses on the coaching staff this off-season.
In case your head is spinning, here is a quick look at where everyone has wound up:
Courtesy of the University of Miami: CORAL GABLES, Fla. - James Coley, who served the last three seasons as offensive coordinator at Florida State, has been named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Miami, head coachAl Golden announced Thursday. Coley spent the last five seasons in Tallahassee on Jimbo Fisher's staff - all five as tight ends coach and the last three as the offensive coordinator. As the recruiting coordinator at Florida State in 2008 and 2009, he was instrumental in the Seminoles landing back-to-back Top 10 signing classes and was also named the ACC's top recruiter in 2010 by ESPN.com. "We're excited about adding James Coley's leadership, expertise and passion to our staff and Miami Hurricane Football," Golden said. "I've been an admirer of his offenses output and execution, his commitment to student-athlete development as well as his relentless approach to recruiting Dade and Broward counties. "Coach Coley will be a great asset to the University of Miami and we welcome him, his wife Kenia and their two children back to South Florida," Golden said. Prior to Florida State, Coley spent one season in his hometown of Miami as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at FIU. He completed overhauled the Golden Panthers offense and established new standards for rushing yardage, as the unit doubled its production over the second half of the season. He spent two seasons as an offensive assistant with the Miami Dolphins under Nick Saban. While with the Dolphins, Coley worked with running backs Ricky Williams and Ronnie Brown when the duo boasted the NFL's seventh-best rushing attack. In 2006, he worked with the Dolphins' receivers, including All-Pro Chris Chambers and Wes Welker, and was responsible for breaking down opposing defenses and self-scouting as the quality control coach. Coley's college coaching career began as a graduate assistant at LSU on then-offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher's staff in 2003 and 2004. The Tigers won the 2003 SEC and National Championships and played in the 2004 Capital One Bowl. Coley spent six years as a high school football coach in Miami from 1997-2002, first as quarterbacks coach from 1997-99 at Miami Senior HS, where he worked with former Hurricanes stars and current NFL standouts Andre Johnson and Roscoe Parrish. He then spent 2000-02 as assistant head coach/offensive coordinator at Miami Norland HS, where he coached future college stars Dwayne Bowe (LSU), Kareem Brown (Miami), Alexander Bostic III (FIU) and Antwan Barnes (FIU). Coley's high school coaching career concluded with Miami Norland winning the 6A state title in 2002. He earned his bachelor's degree from Florida State in 1997 and his master's degree from LSU in 2004. Coley and his wife Kenia have two children - Madison and Brady. The Coleys own a home in Coconut Grove and both of their extended families reside in South Florida. From the Florida State Athletic Training Staff on the status of Mike Compton: Sophomore right hander Mike Compton is out indefinitely as he is receiving treatment for a right elbow sprain . He will be reevaluated in two weeks at which time we hope to have more information on his status.
Florida State will host numerous military families and personnel this Thursday night for the Florida State vs. Clemson men's basketball game at the Donald L. Tucker Center. Below is a list of the groups and individuals that will be recognized during the game. Wounded Warrior: Staff Sergeant Cody Chism, who served in the Army as a Combat Medic for 10 years in Germany and in Operation Iraqi Freedom 07/09, and was medically retired from the army do to combat related injuries. Student Veterans: A large group of student veterans will also be recognized. Leon and Gadsden Country Troops, who recently returned home: Florida Army National Guard troops from the 869th Engineer Company returned home from Afghanistan earlier this month. The 56 guardsmen, coming mainly from Gadsden and Leon counties, returned home to the National Guard Armory in Quincy after being away since February 2012. The company performed engineering operations for the United States Central Command's Material Recovery Effort. *FSU Joint Air Force ROTC will present the colors. Tiffany McCarty became the highest draft selection in Florida State women's soccer history Friday morning when she was taken second overall by the Washington Spirit in the first round of the National Women's Soccer League Draft. But that's not the only history the former FSU star made. According to FSU baseball/soccer sports information director Jason Leturmy, McCarty becomes just the third Seminoles student-athlete from any varsity sport to be selected by a professional team in the first two picks of that squad's league draft. She's the second player to ever go No. 2 overall, joining former baseball star J.D. Drew who was taken second in the 1997 Major League Baseball Draft by the Philadelphia Phillies. The only other 'Noles player to go higher was Paul Wilson when the former standout baseball player was taken first overall by the New York Mets in 1994. Wilson is the highest drafted Florida State student-athlete in school history. The highest football selection in FSU history is Andre Wadsworth, who was taken No. 3 overall by the Arizona Cardinals in the 1998 NFL Draft. Former 'Noles defensive end Bjoern Werner could match or top that in this April's draft as he is widely viewed as a consensus top-10 pick. McCarty was joined Friday by teammates Casey Short and Taylor Vancil, who were both taken fifth and 17th overall in the NWSL Draft, respectively.  Florida State will compete at the 2013 UCA and UDA College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship this weekend at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando. Here's a link to watch the competition live and a link for the schedule of events.
Wednesday morning, NFL Draft guru Mel Kiper, Jr. released an updated mock draft that featured three Florida State juniors -- Bjoern Werner, Menelik Watson and Xavier Rhodes -- in the first round. The placement of Werner (6th) and Rhodes (28th) in the draft's initial round weren't all that surprising -- most draft experts have them slotted somewhere in the first 32 picks -- but Watson at No. 24 was a bit surprising. Not because he isn't talented and doesn't have tremendous upside but because Watson's overall football experience is limited.
But that hasn't stopped Kiper from continuing to sing Watson's praises. Here's what he added Wednesday afternoon in a chat hosted by ESPN:
 Courtesy of the ACC: Greensboro, N.C.--The Atlantic Coast
Conference Friday announced the football conference opponents and sites for the
2013 season incorporating new members Pittsburgh and Syracuse into the 14-team
league. As the conference did in its previous expansion in 2005, this year's
schedule of league football opponents is entirely a new scheduling model that
is not based off the previous schedule. The
complete 2013 ACC Football Schedule, including specific dates, is expected to
be announced in early February. Each
ACC team will play eight conference games in football (four home and four
away), six games within their division (three home, three away) and two games
(one home, one away) with crossover opponents from the opposite division. In
2013, all Atlantic Division members will host their primary crossover opponent
while Coastal Division members will host a rotating crossover opponent. Each
school's primary crossover opponent does not change, while its rotating
crossover opponent will change each year. With the exception of Pittsburgh and
Syracuse, all schools will be playing their rotating crossover opponent for the
first time since 2009. Pittsburgh joins the Coastal Division while Syracuse
will compete in the Atlantic Division and the two schools will play each other annually
as primary crossovers. The other primary crossovers will stay consistent. The
primary crossovers are: Atlantic Division.................. Coastal Division Boston
College..................... Virginia Tech Clemson............................. Georgia Tech Florida
State........................ Miami Maryland............................ Virginia NC
State............................. North Carolina Syracuse............................. Pittsburgh Wake
Forest........................ Duke Also,
as in 2005, the new model of conference opponents will result in repeat site
games in order to balance home and away schedules. This year, taking into
account the existing schedule, there will be a total of just six repeat site
games, all limited to the 2013 football season. The games with opponents traveling
to the same site as in 2012 are: Duke at Wake Forest; Duke at Virginia Tech; Miami
at Duke; Georgia Tech at Clemson; Virginia Tech at Boston College; and Virginia
Tech at Miami. Though
the conference is releasing just the 2013 ACC opponents at this time, this
schedule model may be used as the basis for a full, multi-year schedule in the
future. Below
are the 2013 conference football opponents for each ACC school. The games are
listed with divisional games first in alphabetical order, followed by primary
crossover (pc) and then rotating crossover (rc) games: Atlantic Division Boston
College Clemson Florida State Maryland at Clemson Boston College at
Boston College Boston College Florida State Florida State at
Clemson Clemson at Maryland at Maryland Maryland at Florida State NC State at NC State NC
State at NC State at Syracuse at Syracuse Syracuse Syracuse Wake Forest Wake Forest at
Wake Forest at Wake Forest Virginia Tech (pc) Georgia Tech (pc) Miami (pc) Virginia (pc) at North Carolina (rc) at Virginia (rc) at Pittsburgh (rc) at
Virginia Tech (rc) NC
State Syracuse Wake Forest at Boston College Boston College at Boston College Clemson Clemson at
Clemson at Florida State at Florida State Florida State Maryland at Maryland Maryland Syracuse at NC State NC
State at Wake Forest Wake Forest at Syracuse North Carolina (pc) Pittsburgh (pc) Duke (pc) at Duke (rc) at Georgia Tech (rc) at
Miami (rc) Coastal Division Duke Georgia Tech Miami North
Carolina Georgia Tech at Duke at
Duke Duke Miami at Miami Georgia
Tech at Georgia Tech at North Carolina North Carolina at North Carolina Miami Pittsburgh Pittsburgh at
Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh at Virginia at Virginia Virginia Virginia at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Virginia Tech at
Virginia Tech at Wake Forest (pc) at Clemson (pc) at Florida State (pc) at
NC State (pc) NC State (rc) Syracuse (rc) Wake
Forest (rc) Boston College (rc) Pittsburgh Virginia Virginia
Tech at Duke Duke Duke at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech at Georgia Tech Miami at Miami at
Miami North Carolina at North Carolina North Carolina Virginia at Pittsburgh Pittsburgh at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech at Virginia at Syracuse (pc) at Maryland (pc) at Boston College (pc) Florida State (rc) Clemson (rc) Maryland (rc)
Florida State rookie cornerback Ronald Darby has been named a 2012 FWAA Freshman All-American following his stellar first year in Tallahassee. Darby had already been named the ACC's Defensive Rookie of the Year before the 'Noles' bowl game.
Courtesy of the FWAA:
The Football Writers Association of America, a non-profit organization founded in 1941, consists of more than 1,200 men and women who cover college football for a living. The membership includes journalists, broadcasters and publicists, as well as key executives in all the areas that involve the game. The FWAA works to govern areas that include gameday operations, major awards and its annual All-America team. For more information about the FWAA and its award programs, contact Steve Richardson at tiger@fwaa.com or 972-713-6198. All-Time FWAA Freshman All-America Teams
Courtesy of ESPN: ESPN's Discover Orange Bowl telecast, No. 12 Florida State defeating No. 15 Northern Illinois 31-10, was the most-viewed program of the night - broadcast or cable - with an average of 10,562,000 viewers and a 7.1 coverage rating (6.1 US rating). The 2013 game showed viewership and ratings increases of 47 percent (vs. 7,174,000 ) and 34 percent (5.3 coverage rating) over the 2012 Orange Bowl, a 70-33 victory of No. 23 West Virginia over No. 15 Clemson.
The Tallahassee Seminole Club is holding the first Strikes for Seminoles Bowling Classic will be held Jan. 27 at Capital Lane on Capital Circle Northeast in Tallahassee.
The inaugural event will allow participants to bowl with local sports stars and celebrities with all benefits going to the Tallahassee Seminole Club Scholarship Fund and the FSU Indoor Practice Facility. For more information on the event, check out the Tallahassee Seminole Club website.
Here's audio of my appearance this morning on the David Baumann Show in Orlando and Tampa previewing tonight's Orange Bowl matchup between Florida State and Northern Illinois.
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