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When Willie Taggart walked into Florida State’s team meeting room for the first time as the Seminoles’ new coach, his players clapped in approval. Taggart told them to cut it out, because he had not accomplished anything yet.



“When he said that, I knew he was about business,” cornerback Levonta Taylor told The Athletic. “I knew we were in good hands after that.”



It is a new era at a place where that is still, in many ways, foreign territory. Florida State had not hired a head coach from outside the program since 1976. Then again, Oregon had not done that since 1977, and Taggart was successful enough in his lone year with the Ducks to land the FSU job.



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