If DL was waiting this is his chance to grab him for OC.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7611650/2026/11/01/mike-norvell-fired-fsu-florida-state-football-buyout/

If Dan thinks he's the guy, get him here ASAP. Sit him right beside "the OC" during games, let him get acquainted with the players now for retention and recruits for recruiting.

FSU never recovered from being left out of the playoffs after a perfect 2023 season. One of the biggest injustices of the modern era. They beat everyone in front of them and were passed over, because Texas beat Alabama in Week 2.

Mike Norvell’s firing gives Oregon a dream offensive coordinator candidate

Florida State’s decision to fire Mike Norvell may clear up Oregon’s OC search

While interim playcaller Jay Johnson made quite the first impression in the Ducks’ win over Northwestern, it still seems like Dan Lanning will evaluate all options in the offseason. Among the many options the Ducks should consider is hiring Mike Norvell as the next offensive coordinator.

Mike Norvell could be a candidate for plenty of Group of 6 head coaching gigs, but if he’s interested in taking a step back and rebuilding his status, joining Oregon makes a ton of sense.

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The college football coaching carousel has started spinning over the past few weeks, and after some embarrassing and bad losses on Saturday, it was only a matte

1 hour ago, mikethehiker said:

FSU never recovered from being left out of the playoffs after a perfect 2023 season. One of the biggest injustices of the modern era. They beat everyone in front of them and were passed over, because Texas beat Alabama in Week 2.

I believe losing their QB to injury was a big part of being left out. Not saying I agree with the decision.

37 minutes ago, NJDuck said:

While interim playcaller Jay Johnson made quite the first impression in the Ducks’ win over Northwestern, it still seems like Dan Lanning will evaluate all options in the offseason.

Lanning better look outside the program.

Johnson did well for us but is not the long term solution. Johnson was effectively a defibrillator paddle on the Ducks offense and gave it some life but don't forget that in it's current state this offense still has cancer and needs some serious work.

Yeah. There’s no way it’s gonna be Johnson. If that experiment didn’t work perfectly, Lanning would probably end up on the hot seat. He has to go get a proven coach.

1 minute ago, GeotechDuck said:

Yeah. There’s no way it’s gonna be Johnson. If that experiment didn’t work perfectly, Lanning would probably end up on the hot seat. He has to go get a proven coach.

Pretty sure he has a gold platted memo about this on his desk with the initials PK at the bottom.

3 minutes ago, The Kamikaze Kid said:

Pretty sure he has a gold platted memo about this on his desk with the initials PK at the bottom.

I sure hope so!!

Lanning was an inside linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator (2016–17) at Memphis when Norvell was the head coach of the Tigers.

For Norvell, the Oregon job would offer him a chance to coach at a program with vast resources. He could focus on the offense while providing Lanning experience on the coaching staff.

There are questions about Norvell's ability to develop quarterbacks. It wouldn't be a slam-dunk hire, but it's something for Oregon to consider.

They also coached together for a season at Pitt, and 2 seasons at Arizona State.

Norvell at Memphis 2016-19 and Florida State 2020-26, he should know something about recruiting in the Southeast.

Lanning left Memphis (and Norvell) to be an assistant at Georgia 2018-22.

Lanning is 40, Norvell is 45.

In addition to FSU, there are now head coach openings at Baylor, NC State and Maryland.

34 minutes ago, HDuck said:

There are questions about Norvell's ability to develop quarterbacks. It wouldn't be a slam-dunk hire, but it's something for Oregon to consider.

They also coached together for a season at Pitt, and 2 seasons at Arizona State.

As HC how much did he directly coach the QBs at FSU?

How much does any HC directly coach any position? I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I doubt Norvell was in the QB room for the entire duration of every meeting.

Norvell staring QBs have been transfers:

Memphis

2016 – Riley Ferguson a JC transfer to Memphis

2017 – Riley Ferguson

2018 – Brady White

2019 -  Brady White

Florida State

2020 – committee

2021 – Jordan Travis

2022 – Jordan Travis

2023 – Jordan Travis

2024 – DJ Uiagalelei

2025 – Tommy Castellanos

2026 – Ashton Daniels

White transferred from Ariz State to Memphis, played well and racked up stats, but was undrafted.  Played a bit in USFL.  He then became an asst for Kenny Dillingham at ASU, and this current season is on the FSU staff for Norvell.

Travis was the QB for undefeated FSU team who was injured in the 11^th game and the CFP Committee used that as the reason to deny 13-0 FSU a CFP slot.  He transferred from Louisville to Florida State.

Uiagalelei played 3 years at Clemson, 1 year at Oregon State, then just 5 games at FSU.

Castellanos went from UCF, to Boston College, to Florida State, and is now at Tex Tech.  He played 12 games at FSU including an upset of Alabama, but FSU was just 5-7 in 2025.  He started his first game for Tex Tech yesterday – a 34-26 win over Arizona.

Daniels went from Stanford to Auburn to Florida State.

42 minutes ago, David Marsh said:

As HC how much did he directly coach the QBs at FSU?

How much does any HC directly coach any position? I'm not saying it doesn't happen but I doubt Norvell was in the QB room for the entire duration of every meeting.

Austin Tucker was the QB coach at FSU. He has quite the resume even though he played receiver in college.

Austin Tucker - Quarterbacks Coach - Football Coaches - Florida State University

This needs to be a process, Lanning shouldn't make any decisions until about a month or more from now. He needs to evaluate what he wants as his offensive identity and then find the best person for the job. That might be Norvell, but they shouldn't be in any hurry to make a decision in the next few weeks.

3 hours ago, mikethehiker said:

FSU never recovered from being left out of the playoffs after a perfect 2023 season. One of the biggest injustices of the modern era. They beat everyone in front of them and were passed over, because Texas beat Alabama in Week 2.

And they would have got stomped. The committee did them Justice. As Georgia clearly demonstrated.