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Former FSU quarterback De’Andre Johnson won’t play football this season

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Former FSU quarterback De’Andre Johnson will attend East Mississippi Community College, but he will not play football. Head coach Buddy Stepens says that Johnson, who was dismissed from FSU after punching a woman in a bar fight, will attend class and “mandated counseling” sessions at the school. However, he won’t play the game. “He is coming here and enrolling in school,” Stephens told The Columbus Dispatch. “He will not participate in football … he is giving up football, something he…

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FSU’s Jimbo Fisher the king of winning close games in college football

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Close counts, especially for a coach who is on the winning side of things. Ask FSU’s Jimbo Fisher, the close-win king of college football. According to Jon Solomon of CBSsports, Fisher is the best close-game coach in the ACC. Fisher was 7-0 in one-possession games, and the Seminoles have won their last 10 overall, with their last close-game loss coming to North Carolina State in 2012. Solomon ranks Alabama’s Nick Saban, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer, UCLA’s Jim Mora, TCU’s Gary…

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FSU’s suspended running back Dalvin Cook has trial moved up

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Dalvin Cook got an accelerated trial. Now, if he is found not guilty, how fast will he able to rejoin his Florida State Seminoles? Cook’s court case has been moved up to August 24, giving him as many as an extra 10 days to practice if he is found not guilty. If he is found guilty, it would be difficult for coach Jimbo Fisher to welcome him back any time soon following the insistence that he is opposed to domestic…

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ESPN thinks that FSU, Florida will both be mediocre in 2015

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For the past few weeks, there have been various preseason polls and rankings about what to expect, and most of the polls expect that FSU will win the ACC and that Florida will be just another team in the SEC. ESPN is even more harsh on the state’s prospects. It has FSU and coach Jimbo Fisher ranked third in the ACC behind Clemson and Georgia Tech. The University of Miami it has ranked eighth. In the SEC, it has Florida…

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FSU running back Dalvin Cook wants speedy trial

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Dalvin Cook, FSU‘s speedy running back, has filed a motion for a speedy trial. Cook, who is charged with misdemeanor battery for allegedly striking a woman in a parking lot, would like to go to trial almost immediately to prove his innocence, attorney Ricky Patel has said. Patel says a new witness has come forward who will testify that Cook struck no one and was having a conversation with another witness as the altercation was unfolding. There is no video…

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The football team could become FSU’s other circus

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Florida State is well known for the FSU Flying High Circus. Students participating in the circus perfect their talents as an extra-curricular activity as do “student-athletes.” This fall, the circus may have some competition for drama and high-wire acts … from the football team. Ringmaster Jimbo Fisher will need to be at his best to keep all three rings of offense, defense and special teams focused on their performance. As fall practice prepares for the September 5 opener against the…

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FSU coach Jimbo Fisher suggests that his team needs to ‘grow up’

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For FSU, the objective will not to be to get into trouble. The goal will be to cause a little of the right kind of it. FSU, which began its preseason camp on Wednesday, has been the most successful program in the country the last two seasons with a national title and a playoff appearance. The Seminoles have won 39 games the last three seasons, the most in the country. However, at FSU, much of the talk all off-season has…

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