The Great Florida State Twitter Uprising of 2020 may not be remembered for long. In fact, by mid-afternoon Thursday it already was dying out, less than 24 hours after it started.
But the very fact that it existed is a noteworthy sign of the times. It was another milestone in a whirlwind week that is part of an unprecedented year, as Power to the Players becomes an increasingly more real and tangible thing in college athletics.
The athletes are speaking up. The athletes are calling out fraudulence when they encounter it. The athletes are flexing the muscles they always had but rarely used, because the system so strongly discouraged it.