Something’s not right in Tallahassee. And the silence coming from Florida State’s coaching staff is deafening. When Tommy Castellanos took that brutal targeting hit from Stanford safety Mitch Leigber late in the fourth quarter on October 18, everyone watching saw what happened. His head bounced off the turf after getting drilled while trying to slide, and he lay motionless for over a minute before trainers got to him.
Leigber got ejected immediately, and Tommy Castellanos walked off under his own power but never returned. And FSU went on to lose 20-13 in their fourth straight defeat. But here’s where things get weird. Four days later, nobody at Florida State will tell anyone what’s actually wrong with their starting quarterback. And the way the coaching staff is playing hot potato with