Taggart: Dehydration doable consider FSU loss

After watching Florida State put on down in Saturday’s season-opening loss to Boise State, coach Willie Taggart is inspecting whether or not his gamers had been correctly hydrated.

On his weekly radio present Monday, Taggart mentioned he has spoken with FSU’s medical employees about higher hydration after seeing a number of gamers cramp up within the recreation.

Florida State led 31-13 late within the third quarter earlier than Boise State scored the sport’s last 23 factors to win 36-31. Due to Hurricane Dorian, the sport had been moved from a night kickoff in Jacksonville to an early-afternoon kickoff at Florida State’s Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee.

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“They should begin hydrating early within the week and handle their our bodies,” Taggart mentioned on his call-in present. “We won’t depart it as much as our gamers simply to do it. We have to pressure them to hydrate and handle themselves. I do not know if we did an excellent job of that final weekend. A type of conditions the place you reside and be taught, and we’ll make it possible for we assist our guys with regards to that.”

Boise State ran 106 performs within the recreation, 46 greater than Florida State, which had possession for under 19:57.

Earlier Tuesday, Florida State offensive lineman Baveon Johnson questioned the crew’s conditioning degree, saying it “wasn’t our sturdy swimsuit.” Johnson later mentioned of the Boise State recreation, “No, we weren’t ready. I wasn’t ready, all of us weren’t ready.”

“I really feel prefer it was simply conditioning total,” he added. “That is what we have to get higher at.”

Taggart additionally addressed conditioning Monday, saying the crew would proceed to situation throughout practices and the coaches want to enhance their substitution patterns going ahead.

Florida State subsequent performs Saturday afternoon, when it hosts Louisiana-Monroe.