Mike Norvell reveals Florida State's 'hunger' for success

Florida State Seminoles head coach Mike Norvell. Matt Pendleton/Gainesville Sun / USA TODAY NETWORK

HC Mike Norvell doesn't hold back on Florida State's 'hunger' for success in 2024

By Andrew Kulha | Last updated 5/16/24

The Florida State Seminoles are going to be out for revenge in 2024.

Sure, it's a different team that got snubbed from the College Football Playoff last season, but this is a hungry program that head coach Mike Norvell has been building.

The Seminoles may not have Jordan Travis at quarterback anymore, and they also said goodbye to Jared Verse, Keon Coleman and Braden Fiske, but expect FSU to make noise in 2024.

“There’s no lack of edge when it comes to our team. I mean there is a hunger for improvement. There’s a hunger to see what this team can be, because that’s our objective,” Norvell recently told SiriusXM (h/t On3). “If you ask any player, the objective of Florida State football is to go get better, to be better, than what we’ve been.”

"There's no lack of edge when it comes to our team." @FSUFootball is coming off a 13 win season, but HC @Coach_Norvell isn't worried about his team being complacent heading into 2024.

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FSU was as good as it got in 2023 before a brutal injury in mid-November cost Travis — a Heisman candidate — his season. The Seminoles still finished the regular season at 13-0, but they were snubbed by the CFP committee because they just weren't the same type of explosive team without Travis.

Whether that was right or wrong has been debated and will continue to be a hot topic in Tallahassee.

No matter what happened last season, though, the 2024 squad will have a chance to write its own story — and the Seminoles are expected to be very good.

“There are some new faces, but there are also some guys that have been a part of the program, a lot of guys — 80 guys — that are returning on this team that were a part of last year’s,” Norvell explained “But there’s some new faces that are going to be key contributors. But it’s still about what this team can do."

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