After 7+ years, I’m putting ScalpEm.com into “Archive Mode” and, for all intents and purposes, closing the site. No new content will be added in the future. After many years of blogging about the Noles, it’s time for me to move on to other formats. Where can you find me in the future? You can find me on Twitter. It lets me interact with all of you, in 140 characters at a time and provides some of the best real time news and conversation anywhere.

As you have probably noticed, posting frequency slowed down a lot since October of 2009. Why? My priorities in life, my outlook on life and what’s important to me changed. There are other projects and ideas that I’d like to work on. So, it’s time for me to move on to those other items on my life’s agenda.

With that in mind, I didn’t want to stop posting without an explanation. I thank the many readers that stopped by over the years. I appreciate all of you very, very much. I thank the regular contributors here, specifically, Bill From Tampa and Jordi Scrubbings (you can find Mike Lortz at JordiScrubbings.com), both of whom added a great deal of content throughout the 7 years of ScalpEm.com. I’d also like to thank the many sports bloggers out there. I enjoyed watching the blogging community grow and getting to know all of you a bit. Of course, thank you to the readers and those of you that left comments. It was always a good feeling to know that a person took the time to read what I wrote. Last, but definitely not least, thanks to my “investors” aka Mom & Dad. Your support of my project was always greatly appreciated.

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Thank you very much for 7 fun years! This is a very happy day for me! Go Noles!

So what is it? Can Jimbo Fisher make the 2nd year jump protégé Nick Saban had at LSU
and Alabama, or should FSU be content with another solid season?

Barring injuries, FSU should have one of the top defenses in a stacked ACC and perhaps
the country. The Noles have two NFL caliber corners, a two 5 star recruits who will be
playing safety. The front four will get a badly needed injection of talent which should
prevent a late season slide like last year. And the linebacker corps should be up to FSU’s
usual standards.

Honestly, at the end of the day I feel the 2011 season is going to come down to one man
and one man only. EJ Manuel. The hyped recruit from Virginia Beach has shown the
ability to be an elite quarterback in the college game. Finally injury free, Manuel should
be able to pick up where Christian Ponder left off.

If Manuel can come in and be the man, FSU should win the ACC title no if ands or buts.

And so it is under this historical precedent that I am sad to announce that this is my last post at ScalpEm.com. I haven’t visited this cave much recently, so I figured it was time I took my remaining rocks, spearheads, and caveman clubs and officially moved out.

This is a sad departure, for sure.

I started blogging in late 2006. During my first few months, I was the definition of a novice blogger without a clue what I was doing. Although I started writing about current events, I quickly migrated to sports. Among my first posts were an opinion piece on Jeff Bowden, a look back at Nigel Dixon, and a comparison of Bobby Bowden with Babe Ruth.

http://theserioustip.blogspot.com/2006/09/5-good-reasons-jeff-bowden-is-ok.html

http://theserioustip.blogspot.com/2006/11/life-and-times-of-big-jelly.html

http://theserioustip.blogspot.com/2006/11/saint-bobby-and-babe.html

(I still think the latter two are quite good. Go check them out.)

To this day I still don’t know how, but somehow those early articles were picked up by The Daily Chop, Bill from Tampa’s great curation of FSU news. After I found out who was sending dozens of more viewers my way, I would email Bill from Tampa and send him anything I wrote on the Noles.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/daily_chop/

Then, on November 6, 2006, I actually received a comment from one of the new FSU readers.

“ NoleCC said: Cool blog. I’ll be keeping especially close attention to any Mets posts. Glad to see
we have that in common along with the ‘Noles!”

I had no idea who “NoleCC” was. So to find out who this mysterious fellow was, down the rabbit hole I plunged. I followed a link, then another, and then other, and finally ended up on ScalpEm.com. Along with Andrew Carter’s Chopping Block (how fitting that he just left as well), ScalpEm.com became one of my go-to blogs on the Noles. But unlike the Chopping Block, ScalpEm featured an intelligent and responsive comment section that I could share ideas with. And as NoleCC introduced himself to my blog via my comment section, I began to introduce myself to his.

After two years of reading and commenting, I finally mustered the gumption to ask NoleCC if I could guest cameo on ScalpEm. NoleCC’s answer was not only a resounding “Yes”, but he also told me I could post whenever I wanted. And on November 17, 2008, I wrote my first blog for ScalpEm.com.

http://www.scalpem.com/blog/2008/11/17/will-the-bad-economy-mean-a-quicker-end-for-bobby-
bowden/

Over the last few years, I’ve really appreciated the opportunity to write at ScalpEm.com. I like to think I’ve done some of my best work here. My personal favorites are my recent posts on M&Ms, my various dissections of the Seminole Boosters, and my comparison of the Florida college football scene with post-
World War I geopolitics.

(Actually, that WWI geopolitics post is one of my favorite pieces, here or anywhere.)

http://www.scalpem.com/blog/2010/09/11/florida-college-football-and-the-age-of-empires/

But now it’s time to say good-bye to ScalpEm.com. Even though my posting frequency has dropped in
the last year, I’m gonna miss it. It was my outlet to talk all things Seminoles.

But those of you who still want to read my work, I’m still at my personal blog
(www.jordiscrubbings.com), I’m writing about the Tampa Bay Rays at www.RaysIndex.com, and Minor
League Baseball at www.BusLeaguesBaseball.com. I am also on Twitter at @JordiScrubbings and on
Facebook at www.Facebook.com/ScrubbingsJordi. On top of all that, I’m also doing stand-up comedy in
the Central Florida area, with my next show in Ocala on May 6th and 7th. Details on my site.

Thanks again all of you who read my work. I really appreciate it. It was an honor and a pleasure. Thank
you, Bill From Tampa, for finding my blog and introducing me to a vibrant FSU blogosphere. And thanks
most of all to NoleCC for having me here and for the last seven years making ScalpEm one of the best
places to talk Seminoles.

Go Noles.

(NoleCC’s Note: A big thanks to Jordi for contributing here over the years! Check him out at his various online locations and in Tampa doing stand up if you get the chance!!!)

Seven point nine seconds remained in overtime.  That is all that separated Florida State from their first appearance in the Elite Eight since 1993.

All the Seminoles needed to do was to hold VCU on the inbound play under the Rams’ basket.

But the Rams had burned the ‘Noles on inbound plays throughout the game. This one particularly hurt when Joey Rodriguez bounced the ball under and in between two Seminole defenders right to a cutting Bradford Burgess who laid the ball in to take a 72-71 lead with 7.1 seconds left.

With time running out it looked like Derwin Kitchen might pull out the last second win. After driving from the top of the key down to the right of the lane Kitchen passed up a layup and kicked the ball to Singleton who never got a shot off having it blocked and thus ending a comeback and the Seminoles’ season.

The last seconds of overtime had an eerily similarity to end of regulation. Singleton had just tied the score at 65 with his only three pointer of the game with 41 seconds left. Bernard James swatted away Burgess’ floater in the lane with only 15 seconds on the game clock.

Leonard Hamilton chose to not call a timeout and avoid letting VCU set up in the zone presumably to let his offense attack.

Kitchen had the ball but instead of attacking the basket, Kitchen dribbled aimlessly on the perimeter and heaved a wild turnaround jumper that had no chance of going in sending the game to an extra period.

Those two plays will be remembered by FSU fans for a long time. It is not how Kitchen, who had 23 points and 11 rebounds, should be remembered in his final college game. But they summarized FSU’s inability to put the ball in the basket against VCU.

Of course an active Rams’ defense had a little something to do with that. But FSU fans have seen this before.
The statistics give an indication of FSU’s offensive futility. The ‘Noles had 18 more shots than the Rams and outrebounded VCU 47-25 that included 21 offensive boards not to mention nine missed layups in the first half.

FSU was simply unable to put the ball in the basket enough as has often been the case throughout the season.
Down 36-31 at the half, the Seminoles grabbed a 38-36 lead not two minutes into the second period off a Deveidas Dulkys’ three in transition from the left corner.

It remained a tight back and forth game despite a flurry of nine points from reserve Brandon Rozzell.

But a driving layup by Rozzell made it 59-51 and following a layup by Kitchen, Rodriguez’ back door layup made it 61-53.

Rob Brandenberg threatened to make it a ten point lead but could only make one of two from the charity stripe.
It was at that moment VCU chose a poor time to go cold from the line connecting on just 2 of 7 over the remainder of regulation.

The Seminole defense tightened as well allowing VCU just one basket in the last eight minutes.

FSU grabbed a lead, 67-65, one minute into overtime on a driving layup by Michael Snaer. But Burgess who had been a thorn in FSU’s side all game long scoring a game high 26 points canned a three from the left corner.

Rozzell added two free throws before Kitchen’s layup made it 70-69 in favor of the Rams.

Rodriguez missed two more charity shots and both teams were way off on a three point attempt each setting up the drama by Singleton and subsequent heartbreak in the final 29 seconds.

But credit VCU in earning the win. The Rams attacked and exploited the Seminole defense shooting 46% for the game (including 12 three pointers many of which that were uncontested taking advantage of FSU’s collapsing style of defense by spreading wide) far above the Seminoles’ nation leading 36% field goal defense.

Singleton and Snaer were the other Seminoles in double figures with 16 and 12 points respectively.

And so ends Florida State’s season that despite some bumps along the way turned out to be the most successful post season play in many years and finishing at 23-11.

Lower seeds such as a ten seed that Florida State came into the NCAA as generally don’t beat second seeded teams in such dominating fashion. But that is exactly what the Seminoles did in giving nothing easy to the Irish from start to finish.

Heck, even the walk ons got into the swing of things as Andrew Rutledge finished off the scoring with a three pointer from the right corner with just seconds left in the game.

The shooting statistics tell the story of the dominance. FSU shot 45% while a stifling defense held Notre Dame to just 30% that included 7-30 three point shots  well below their 39% season average.  Meanwhile FSU, not known as a three point shooting team, shot 9-19 from behind the arc.

Notable also in the statistics as well was free throw shooting. Notre Dame had taken 316 more trips to the stripe than its opponents over the course of the season. Instead it was the Seminoles who was the aggressor making almost as many freebies as the Irish took (18-25 compared to 12-19).

Notre Dame had one lead in the game at 2-0 and tied it just once, 9-9. But a flurry of three pointers, seven in total, in the first half staked the ‘Noles to a 34-23 halftime lead.

And then FSU upped that to twenty-three, 52-29, after  Michael Snaer (who had just swatted away Ben Hansbrough shot at the other end of the floor) nailed a three pointer from the right corner.

The Irish did make an 11-0 run right after that to close to 52-40. But that as close as the Domers would get as FSU opened it back up to sixteen, 63-47, with 3:59 to play.

It would be hard to point to anyone player to credit for the win, just the way Hamilton likes it, because it was clearly a team effort at both ends of the floor.

Bernard James recorded yet another double double with 14 points and 10 boards made even more remarkable after having multiple IVs earlier in the day due to flu like symptoms. Snaer had an excellent game with 13 points. Derwin Kitchen had 10 with 6 of the team’s total 15 assists (against just 12 turnovers) and Okaro White added 10 as well.

And on defense, FSU frustrated Notre Dame on every possession with defenders in the face of the shooter on nearly every shot and just physically beat down the Irish knocking cutters off their routes. Rotations to the ball were nearly flawless allowing ND a scant few dribble penetrations and an extended defense pushed the guards out past their comfort zone.

As former Wake Forest Head coach Dino Gaudio now ESPNU analyst said after the game, “FSU contests every shot. They don’t hope you miss …. they MAKE you miss.”

It quite possibly was the best offensive and defensive performance of the season for the Seminoles.
Notre Dame Head coach Mike Brey sensed that as well waving the white flag by emptying the bench with 1:33 to play.

“I thought we executed our game plan well”, Hamilton said. “We moved the ball well, we made the extra pass.”
“Hopefully, this is just the beginning of something special,” Seminoles coach Leonard Hamilton said. “The good thing about this team is I still think our best basketball is ahead of us.”

No offense coach, but after years of frustration for FSU fans, this season is already something special.

“If we can stay consistent on the offensive end, I like our chances,” said Derwin Kitchen, who had 10 points and six rebounds. “We’ve just been so up and down and inconsistent on the offensive end, it allowed us to stumble at times and lose a few games. If we can stay consistent and execute on the offensive end, I like our chances because we play so well on the defensive end.”

The bottom line … FSU completely outplayed, outhustled, and outworked the Irish all game long showing anyone who didn’t know already why FSU is known to have the stingiest defense in the country.

Add to that an offense that is clicking efficiently and it’s not hard to see why the Seminoles are making their deepest run into the NCAA in 18 years.

A lasting sight will be a post game celebration at mid court with Hamilton’s team rubbing the head of their smiling coach.

So FSU heads to the Sweet 16 to play VCU next Friday night in San Antonio. The game will make a little history as well as no 10 seed has ever played an 11 seed in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.

That proved to prophetic.

With 2:28 left in the game, Bernard James swatted away B.J. Holmes layup right into the hands of Ian Miller who promptly saw Michael Snaer all alone racing down the floor.  The subsequent layup put FSU on that 50 point plateau.

And just for good measure Snaer added a free throw having been fouled on the play by Khris Middleton giving the ‘Noles a 51-42 lead en route to a 57-50 win over the Aggies.

It was the first NCAA tournament win for the Seminoles since beating TCU96-87 in 1998 in the first round.

“Coach (Hamilton) talked to us a lot about FSU having no first round win in the NCAA for a while”, Bernard James said afterward who finished the game with 10 points, 6 rebounds, and led a FSU block party (10) with 3 blocked shots probably none more important than his third one.

Leonard Hamilton had said all week that it was all business for this and would take care of business in Chicago getting that first round failure off their back.

Speaking on the victory, “It’s huge, it’s huge”, said James.

“We came out and played as hard as we could”, said James speaking about the second half. “We didn’t do a good job of posting up in the first half and Coach called the big men out about it. He called me out personally.”

That second half effort was reflected in the shooting percentage of the Seminoles. For the first twenty minutes, FSU shot just 38% but shot well over 50% in the second twenty minutes to finish 47% for the game.

Hamilton commented, “The first half I thought that both teams played pretty good defense, from our standpoint. Their defensive schemes caused us to stand, and we didn’t have very much ball movement. They kind of stymied us a little bit. We couldn’t get any type of offensive flow.”

“I thought the second half we executed a lot better, shot a much higher field goal percentage. I thought our players committed themselves to reversing the ball and moving the ball and making an extra pass, and we got higher percentage shots.”

Key in that was Derwin Kitchen who scored 12 of his team leading 15 points in the second half.

Obviously the senor guard was not ready to see his college career end just yet.

After a not so stellar start that saw the ‘Noles turn the ball over on its first two possessions of the second half and down 31-23, Kitchen scored the next five points with a strong drive to the basket and a pull up three pointer from above the key.

James added the next eight points off an offensive put back and a slam dunk off a nice assist from Ian Miller to pull FSU to within one, 31-30, with 15:45 to play. Teammates found James again on the blocks for two more layups.

Michael Snaer finished off the 13-0 FSU run with a runner from the right side of the lane and a 36-31 Seminole lead at the 11:25 mark.
It was a lead that the ‘Noles would not relinguish for the remainder of the game.

Kitchen made sure of that after the Aggies had closed to within one, 38-37, making the first of two free throws but missing the second.
Quickly realizing the second free throw was short, Kitchen raced in and grabbed the rebound to retain possession for the Seminoles.

That effort was rewarded when Jon Kreft fed Kitchen the ball who scored on a layup giving FSU a 43-37 margin.

For good measure Kitchen burned Naji Hibbert off the dribble on the left wing and scored yet another layup plus the foul.

Middleton made it 48-42 off an offensive put back when Okaro White did not block out the forward at the 4:27 mark.

A&M would not score again until more than three minutes had passed from a Holmes three pointer.

By that time (1:13) FSU was leading 53-45 with the Seminoles clearly in control of the game.

A run out by Snaer off the inbound pass from the baseline under the AM basket for the easy basket made it 57-48 and a meaningless basket by the Aggies finished the scoring.

Of note was the return of Chris Singleton to the floor. Singleton showed some rust but found ways to contribute playing 16 minutes, ten coming in the second half. The junior finished with 5 points, 2 boards, a steal, and a blocked shot.

As FSU fans have come to expect, the nation leading in field goal defense Seminoles held the Aggies to just 31% for the game holding A&M to a woeful 22% in the second half.

Also in FSU’s favor was free throw shooting. Not necessarily theirs but the inability of A&M to knock down the freebies connecting on just 9-19 attempts.

But notable in that statistic is that A&M took only two of those in the second half. For a team that likes to make more free throws than their opponent takes, the poor shooting and the inability to get to the line was key.

Credit adjustments at halftime after the Aggies were exploiting the aggressive defense of the Seminoles. Among those adjustments was the use of a zone defense specifically a three-two zone defense.

“We don’t use very many possessions of zone in our defensive schemes, but we felt that they were doing such a good job executing, we had a hard time keeping them in front of us”, Hamilton said later. “So we thought just a change would be good for our defense, even if we had to go back to our man to man.”

Middleton finished with 16 point, Nathan Walkup added 11, and David Loubeau scored 10.

With the win FSU continues its season and will play Notre Dame, 69-56 winners over Akron, on Sunday (time yet to be determined).

Saturday Thoughts:

• So much for those 2.5 hour games. Thanks to the batting practice show that the Noles put on, the game was lengthy.
• Fifteen runs when it’s not gorillaball is much more interesting to me than when they’re all dingers.
• Busch is the definition of “lumbering” out there. To me, he looks tired from the time he steps on the mound. It might just be a perception thing, kind of like how Hunter Scantling looks like a giant when he’s really not. I mean put Scantling in the WWE and he’s a small guy.
• Bright neon pink Vendor shirts are rough. I feel badly for those guys.
• Nice job by The Animals for killing the guy in the boot that was walking around with the two girls. “Oww. Oww. Oww. Oww. Owww. Owwwwww. Ow. Ow. Ow.”
• It’s nice to see Stuart Tapley look comfortable at the plate. I really hope the trend up continues for him in the DH role.

Sunday Thoughts:

• The camera angle in CF is brutal on Sun Sports. BRUTAL.
• Listening to “Lebben” interviewed in the middle of the game still makes me laugh in a good way, because Mike could’ve just recorded a CD of sound bites long ago and just handed them out. The Mike Martin mix your own sound byte CD would be a great sell to the media. Perhaps, we can get a special bonus remix of “These Young Men.”
• The scouting report was dead on all weekend. Lots of credit is due for Boston College’s starting pitching which was solid, but their bullpen was plain ugly.
• Thankfully, the Noles got to the pen just barely soon enough to eek out that 4-3 win on Lopez’s Sac Fly.
• Someone needs to tell the guys that using gel shaving cream for the pie to the face is just harsh. It burns in the eyes. Be a pro, upgrade to some Reddi Whip or Cool Whip. Then it doesn’t sting AND it’s tasty.

Scheduling has kept me away from the last few games down at Dick Howser Stadium, but last night was I was back and it was one of those nights that I love as an old-school baseball fan. I was never a fan of the 15-14 “gorillaball” scores, so a 3-1 night where Sean Gilmartin was pretty much lights out and the Noles had one big rally to win the game was fantastic. To top that off the games are still under 3 hours with the combination of the bats and new rules. The only thing that would have made it better is a bigger crowd, but attendance last night was understandable considering FSU is on Spring Break.

Here are some random thoughts from last night:

• It seems like Sean Gilmartin needs a big hit against him before he settles in. It’s funny, whether it’s a double or a home run like last night, he settled down and then is lights out the rest of the way. As long as they’re solo shots, it’s not a big deal.
• Also regarding Sean Gilmartin, he’s just a unique looking kind of ballplayer. My buddy and I were talking about how he just looks older and different on the mound than everybody else. I’m not sure that counts as an intangible, but there’s something extra fun about #3 to watch when he’s on the mound.
• Stuart Tapley looks more comfortable at the plate. If he can hover around .275 all season I think that would be a great success for him and the team.
• It’s extremely nice to look at an infield and not hold my breath at ANY of the positions. Johnson, Gonzalez, Travis and a defensively improved Boyd at 1B.
• Talking about Boyd, he had two very nice plays that stick out in my mind. The first was a hard hit grounder that he backhanded (and probably never saw) and got the put out. The second was a really nice pick on a throw (I can’t remember whether it was Johnson or Gonzo with the throw).
• James Ramsey is a goon in a good way. He’s looks like Christian Slater during pregame and seems to be the guy that gets the rest of the team excited and ready to roll.
• Mike McGee is a great all around player. I realize that he doesn’t want to pitch when he moves on to professional baseball, but he does himself in every time that he comes up clutch at the end of a game.
• Why does Boston College seem to play FSU tough in every sport?
• Can someone explain to me why when a B.C. pitcher that was injured left the game that one of the players was allowed to finish warming up  in the bullpen? I thought immediate replacement was necessary and the new pitcher could warm up on the field? I really don’t know, so if anyone has an answer leave me a comment.
• Really, can we go back to the regular Take Me Out To The Ball Game song instead of the hodgepodge one that is still being forced down our throats?
• Nice job by The Animals last night with O Canada, that’s the loudest I’ve heard it in a while and it worked yet again.

I should be headed out there again tonight. Hopefully it’ll be a little warmer than last night! Go Noles!

Derwin Kitchen’s jumper from inside the arc along the right baseline was a millisecond too late leaving his finger tips. Instead of a game winning shot that saw the FSU bench rush to Kitchen to celebrate, the referees determined after several minutes via replay that the clock had gone off before the shot.

Gene Deckerhoff described the heartbreaking loss this way.

“The shot is no good. Virginia Tech wins 52-51. How did they do it? Count up the turnovers and that will tell you the story.”

Deckerhoff was of course referring to the 20 turnovers by the Seminoles that led to 19 points for VT.

But it was the one that occurred with just 25 seconds left in the game that proved to be the most crucial one of them all.

After FSU called a timeout with 15 seconds left on the shot clock, Devidas Dulkys inbounded the ball to Michael Snaer. Tech promptly trapped Snaer and Jeff Allen ripped the ball away from him.

That led to Malcolm Delaney driving under the basket, kicking the ball out to Eric Green positioned out on the left wing all alone. To that point in the game, Green was 1-12 from the floor. Unfortunately for Florida State, he finished 2-13 canning the shot giving VT the 52-51 lead with 4.7 seconds left.

It was just the second lead of the game for the Hokies, the first occurring at the 17:10 mark of the first half.

Kitchen received the ball and raced down the right side of the floor pulling up, elevating, and swishing what was originally called a made basket as the buzzer went off.

But the required review proved otherwise and was the correct call as replay showed the ball was still on Kitchen’s fingertips as the light on the backboard went off.

FSU held a 27-19 halftime lead. And with FSU’s record when leading at the half (18-1) in addition to holding VT to just 18% from the floor, things looked to be definitely in the ‘Noles favor.

But it was not to be and FSU suffered yet another loss in Greenville where the Seminoles have won just one first round game.

A dejected Leonard Hamilton noted that it was not the waning seconds of the game to focus on the reasons for the loss but rather much earlier in the game.

“We put ourselves in a bad position where we could lose at the end”, Hamilton said. “I thought we executed what we wanted to do on offense but I look down at the stat sheet and see they went to the free throw line twenty-one times and we went to the line five times.”

Hamilton referred also to the three straight possessions in the first half where FSU turned the ball over as well as the second half where FSU was leading 38-28 and gave away the ball three consecutive times as well.

“We left our feet twice and threw the ball through the hands of another player” in referring to back to back turnovers by Snaer and a pass from Luke Loucks that went off the hands of Dulkys.
In the end all were costly possessions that took potential points away from the Seminoles.

While FSU shot a very respectable 47% and owned the paint (34 points to 1, the Seminole guards struggled greatly against the Hokie 2/3 zone defense. The three starting guards (Snaer, Dulkys, and Kitchen) combined for a dreadful 5-22 including 2 of 11 from behind the arc.

And when the ball did get inside to a post player such as Bernard James (who lead FSU with 11 points on 5-5 shooting), the VT defense quickly collapsed on him and James just could not seem to draw a referee’s whistle.

“I think we need to give them credit for their resilience and conditioning playing just six players”, Hamilton added.

Ian Miller was the only other Seminole in double figures with 10 points, eight coming in the first half.

Delaney led all scorers with 16 with 12 coming in the second half. Manny Atkins added 14.

Part of the game plan going into the game was to get the Hokies in foul trouble. Three players including Delaney had four but FSU never could get them out of the game.

So for the second year in a row FSU is one and done in the ACC tournament and will now await the announcement of the NCAA tournament selection committee to find out where they will travel to. But this loss does not help FSU’s seeding. It does however give VT a shot at being included in the Big Dance.