11/13/2019 football Edit

FSU football players take to social media, endorse Haggins for head coach

Ira Schoffel • TheOsceola

Managing Editor

Ira has covered Florida State for more than 15 years and college football for more than 25 years. He is a former sports editor and columnist at the Tallahassee Democrat and other outlets.

While Florida State officials continue with their quest to hire the next head coach for the Florida State football team, several of the Seminoles' players are making their opinions known:

They want interim head coach Odell Haggins to get the position permanently.

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Haggins, who led FSU to a 38-31 upset victory Saturday at Boston College, is now 3-0 as an interim head coach -- he won both of his games in that role in 2017.

The former Seminole All-American and longtime assistant coach is now being endorsed by many of the current players. Here are some of the posts that showed up on Twitter Wednesday afternoon:

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