Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Florida State vs. Florida at the beginning of the season? Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher could be in favor of the move

For the past 33 years, Florida State has closed out the regular season against in-state rival Florida.
If new FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher had his way, which by the way he doesn't, the schedule would be flipped for a couple of years.
Speaking to a Seminole Booster club in Atlanta, Fisher was asked, the Orlando Sentinel writes, if "organizers from the Chick-fil-A Kickoff had approached" FSU and given the school an invitation to play in the season-opening game at the Georgia Dome, one that annually pits an ACC school versus one from the SEC.
While Fisher conceded they had, a game against Alabama was mentioned by organizers, the coach flipped the script on the question and offered up an intriguing idea for the Kickoff committee, moving the FSU-UF regular-season finale to the beginning of the year.
Fisher's plan would call for the two schools to "do it up here two years in a row," saying that it "makes a lot of sense" from both a financial aspect and from the angle that it would allow the loser of the game -- couchcoughSeminolesSixYearsRunningcoughcough -- the rest of the season to climb back from the loss.
So, with that being said, Fisher amitted that his idea has almost no chance of coming to life.

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