Florida State coach Willie Taggart is a fan of keeping it simple.

After all, he described his approach to offense as ‘lethal simplicity’ upon his arrival at FSU. Taggart wanted to emphasize freedom on offense by scaling down his playbook in order to allow playmakers to, well, make plays.

But a lack of organization and personnel deficiencies led to a disastrous showing on offense this past season, and that in turn prompted Taggart to hand his offense over to new coordinator Kendal Briles.

Briles came to FSU with a sterling reputation as a play caller, having success with spread-option and up-tempo concepts that were similar to what Taggart likes. Taggart committed to entrusting his offense to Briles, although even he was somewhat skeptical with just how simple Briles wanted to be when installing his system.

Taggart revealed during his speaking engagement in Jacksonville -- the first stop of the Seminole Boosters tour on Monday -- that Briles did not hand out a playbook this spring.

“You talk about being simple. No playbook. At first I was a little hesitant about that,” Taggart told the crowd of FSU boosters. “But seeing how our guys responded to it, and how they went out and executed, was impressive. You go back to the spring game, some of the issues we had in the past, just from a receiver standpoint, the alignment. All the penalties, you didn’t get any of those in the spring game. And we went faster. We went faster than what we tried to go last year. It’s something Coach Briles has brought to our offense, it’s the tempo, and it’s a fast pace. It’s fast and it’s causing problems for the defense.”

Taggart was later asked by someone in the audience to expound on Briles’ unorthodox approach.

“We don’t have a playbook. We do a lot of walk-throughs and guys take notes, but we don’t give them a playbook,” Taggart said. “Coach Briles don’t script plays. And you say ‘why you don’t script’, and he said ‘you can’t go fast if you’re looking down at your play sheet.’ Again, I questioned that too at first.

“Then to see it work, it’s been impressive. Really impressive. That’s one thing I applaud him about, is just his way of teaching. He goes about teaching in a different way and understanding the players we have, how they learn. I think that’s so important, you know everyone doesn’t learn the same. Playing football, the more simple we can keep it for these guys, the better they can be.”

Remember, Briles has a hands-on approach to running his offense. He’ll be calling plays from the sideline this fall as FSU tried to get its up-tempo attack on track.