Column: End of spring brings more questions than answers for FSU on offense

But, since the end of Tour of Duty and the beginning of spring practice, there are no bombshell stories breaking out of Tallahassee like when Alex Atkins was suspended in 2024. No crazy comments like Tommy Castellanos said last offseason, which miraculously paid off. Even Terrance Knighton has pulled back, tweeting only eight times since Feb.

20. The largest non-football-related news was about FSU’s backup kicker, who got arrested on spring break. On the one hand, after the noise coming out of the Seminole program the last two offseasons, boring can be a positive.

But even with fan apathy at an all-time high, head coach Mike Norvell decided to keep the general public in the dark, closing practice for the second year in a row, and leaving all of us to guess what the 2026 team will look like. “Most coaches will say they feel good about where they are coming out of spring, but I really do,” Norvell told the local Tallahassee media in his final availability of spring practice. “We’ve got a team that has a lot of work in front of it, but it’s one that I’m excited about — some of the additions we’ve been able to bring in and what their ownership, what they’re investing into this team and this university.

” Although Norvell says he feels good about where his team is exiting spring, his actions paint a different message. The head coach, throughout these last six weeks, refused to name a starting quarterback heading into the summer, making it difficult to believe in or break down a team without a sure thing under center. For most of spring, it seemed that transfer quarterback Ashton Daniels would be the starter over Kevin Sperry.