We got them, they just needed the experience of failure and success. I think that was accomplished this season.
from Bill Connelly's bowl article:
"Jimbo Fisher might have pulled off one of his most impressive coaching jobs in 2015.
Despite basically losing their entire passing game and four three- or four-year starters on the offensive line, the Seminoles rank 19th in Off. S&P+. Dalvin Cook, who rushed for 1,650 yards and showed elite explosiveness despite playing with a bum hamstring, had a ton to do with this.
And despite a rebuild on the defensive line, the Seminoles are a stout ninth in Def. S&P+.
FSU lost only two games in a rebuilding year: a fluky, blocked-FG-returned-for-TD loss at Georgia Tech and an excusable 10-point loss at No. 1 Clemson. The dud at Tech may not have been impressive, but FSU still beat Miami, manhandled NC State and Louisville and crushed Florida. If this is what a down year looks like in Tallahassee, that's a terrifying thought."