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Florida State fires head coach – is Mark Stoops a candidate?

Willie Taggart is OUT at Florida State. The school released a statement regarding the termination of their head football coach Sunday afternoon.

“I think very highly of Coach Taggart and wish him well, but in the interest of the university we had no choice but to make a change,” the athletic director said in a statement. “We will support our student-athletes in every way and do all we can to return to the winning tradition that is Seminole football.”

Here's the FSU statement re: firing Willie Taggart: pic.twitter.com/5hIXyTK8kg

— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) November 3, 2019

That “winning tradition” has been struggling in recent years.