There's plenty of stories out today that fsu really doesn't want to fire wiLLLLLLLLLLLie. Here are some excerpts from Andy Staples article published in "The Athletic,"
1. That administration has a president planning to retire next year and an athletic director who was elevated from interim status because no suitable sitting athletic directors wanted the job when it opened in 2018. President John Thrasher and AD David Coburn have worked hard to restructure Florida State’s athletic department so the next president will have a robust pool of AD candidates. Neither man wants to fire, then hire a football coach before all that can take place. They don’t want to pay buyouts going and coming.
2. Another reason the administration doesn’t want to fire Taggart is because everyone is painfully aware of the optics if he loses his job while fellow second-year coaches Chip Kelly (UCLA) and Scott Frost (Nebraska) have to this point fared as badly or worse at their jobs. Kelly and Frost don’t seem to be any danger. They are white, and Taggart is black. That oversimplifies the discussion, but it is a factor everyone will consider.
3. Thrasher and Coburn have worked to bring Florida State in line with other schools in terms of athletic administration. For decades, Seminole Boosters president Andy Miller has been more powerful than the athletic director. That’s why so few qualified applicants wanted the job when previous AD Stan Wilcox left. But Miller is about to retire as well. The athletic department is being converted to a direct-support organization similar to the ones Florida and UCF use to run their athletic departments. The next AD will not face a power struggle. That person will be in charge. So that should attract more candidates for that job.
This last paragraph I found fascinating.