• As the Seminoles flop toward the finish line of another wasted season, Mike Norvell sounds like he’s out of answers. • Mike Norvell's buyout figure is extreme, but damages could be mitigated if he finds another job. • Top reason to retain Norvell has nothing to do with him, and everything to do with crowded carousel.

Jordan Travis broke his leg, and the College Football Playoff committee shattered Florida State ’s spirit.

In the two years since, Mike Norvell never could reassemble the pieces, and now he’s the spitting image of a guy exhibiting Broken Coach Syndrome.

As the Seminoles flop toward the finish line of another wasted season, Norvell sounds like even he knows he’s out of answers.

“It's extremely frustrating,” he said after his team’s 21-11 loss to NC State , its sixth l

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