If FSU fires Mike Norvell, bring back Jimbo Fisher

In a sport where fiscal sanity has gone extinct, Florida State might actually be the only rational one left.

While LSU and Penn State torch tens of millions to fire successful coaches who didn’t win enough to satisfy delusional fan bases, Florida State is clinging to Mike Norvell for one simple reason — they can’t afford not to. His buyout is a staggering $54 million, and unlike their richer rivals in the SEC and Big Ten, the Seminoles don’t have that kind of money to burn.

So Norvell stays. Not because he’s earned it, but because FSU, for once, is refusing to join the arms race of absurdity.

Seminoles athletic director Michael Alford is presumably looking at the going rate of firing coaches and buying out their contracts — $50 million here, $54 million there — and quietly admitting