FSU’s new hashtag keeps looking sadly literal

The Noles keep failing to #DoSomething.

Social media managers have to keep fans engaged — win or lose. Most team accounts use consistent hashtags associated with their teams.

For 2018 Florida State, that’s been #DoSomething. New Noles head coach Willie Taggart brought the slogan over from Oregon, where he was the head coach last season.

“I just look at myself, my journey, I never blamed anyone,” Taggart said. “I never made any excuses for me not being successful. I just worked my tail off, and I try to instill that in our players as well, because they’re all capable. So that’s been my motto my entire life: Blame no one, make no excuses. You’ve gotta do something.”

Unfortunately, the commitment to this hashtag has been more awkward than inspiring so far.

To recap FSU’s season so far: opened with a 24-3 blowout loss to Virginia Tech in primetime Labor Day night, and then nearly lost to FCS Samford at home. The Noles finished Week 10 sitting at 4-5 on the season after a blowout loss to NC State.

As a result, the #DoSomething hashtag has just been used so uncomfortably. From that VT game:

And Samford:

During Week 3 against Syracuse, the Noles trailed the Orange early in the first quarter. No, that didn’t stop the hashtag!

Blowing a 27-7 lead to Miami!

Losing 53-3 to Clemson:

FSU did not #DoSomething, and lost 59-10.

Losing 47-28 to NC State!

Fans have noticed the irony in using the hashtag, too.

And yeah, there are some fans that use it in jest, naturally — lotta stuff like this out there.

Even Florida State’s sad turnover backpack got roasted with the #DoSomething:

There are obviously a few games left for Florida State to win, but clearly this hashtag has done more harm than good this year.