The big picture for Florida State is player development. Practice and playing on special teams can prepare players for game days. But nothing compares to snaps in games.

Coaches are leaning more and more on true freshman on offense, including in the game at Miami. There's no easy button to expedite their development, but snaps are valuable in the development toward their future.

This is evident as FSU is playing true freshmen at quarterback (Luke Kromenhoek), tailback (Micahi Danzy), wide receiver (Lawayne McCoy, Elijah Moore and BJ Gibson) and tight end (Landen Thomas and Amaree Williams). Thomas is up to 149 snaps, most among the 2024 signees and nearly all of those have come in the last four games.

FSU sports information:

Florida State women’s basketball players Ta’Niya Latson and Makayla Timpson were named to the Naismith Women’s Player of the Year Watch List on Monday.

Florida State was one 13 schools to have multiple players on the list, and one of three from the ACC.

The list recognizes the top 50 players in the nation to watch. The organization also releases a list of 30 midseason candidates. A national voting academy of leading basketball coaches, administrators and journalists narrows the group down to four finalists based on player performance throughout the season. The final four Naismith finalists will make up the ballot and the player of the year is voted on by the group.

Latson was also a part of the list as a sophomore in 2023-24. Both Timpson and Latson were selected to the Preseason All-ACC Team for the second time in their careers ahead of this season.

Florida State will welcome West Florida for an exhibition game on Wednesday at 6 p.m. Admission is free.

The Associated Press released its preseason poll on Oct. 15, with FSU ranked 19th. The Seminoles also appeared at No. 19 in the USA Today Sports Coaches Poll, that was released on Oct. 24.

Single game tickets are now on sale at the FSU Ticket office.

Much more here:

FSU is 1-7 and off to the program's worst start to a season in 50 years.

Although there are 4 games left in the Seminoles' 2024 season, Mike Norvell fielded questions today on if he's already started to look ahead to 2025 roster building, if he would give up offensive playcalling and if he would consider in-season staff changes.

Early Signing Day is December 4th and Florida State has three home games remaining before pen hits paper in early December (Nov. 2nd UNC, Nov. 23 Charleston Southern, Nov. 30 UF). Florida State has a couple of opportunities left to bring prospects in on official visits in the final month. Here is an updated list of who we expect to be on campus in the coming months and who hasn't set a visit yet but may end up on campus.

**EDIT LOG**:

- added Jeremiah McCloud

- moved Tae'Shaun Gelsey to official visitors list

- added the Desir twins visits

- added Tylon Lee, Sean Poret and Jordan Scott visits

- removed Benny Patterson

- added Carter Smith

- removed Carter Smith and Tim Griffin

- added Teriq Mallory

OFFICIAL VISITORS:

NOVEMBER 2ND:
Jayvan Boggs

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Note: After being offered by Florida State on October 10th, Boggs will be officially visiting Florida State this upcoming weekend for the North Carolina game. It'll be Boggs' first trip to Tallahassee since July of 2023. With the decommitment of CJ Wiley, this visit takes on even more importance.

Tobi Haastrup

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Preview story: Tobi Haastrup previews official visit with Florida State

Chase Linton

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Note: I got a text from Linton this morning that his official visit is still on for this weekend. I had previously reported the visit to be cancelled as the Rivals national team did multiple stories with Linton and there was no mention of this visit or Florida State in the top schools. Nevertheless, he will be here this weekend.

Tae'Shaun Gelsey - The Florida commit was offered by Florida State on October 10th. His father is an FSU fan. Now he will officially visit this weekend. Gelsey was on campus earlier in June for an elite camp.

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Jeramiah McCloud

NOVEMBER 23RD:

Jordan Scott

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Note: One of the top JUCO prospects in the cycle, Scott was offered by Florida State on November 8th and will now be taking an official visit on Nov. 23.

Mandrell and Darryl Desir

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Note: The twins backed off their UCF commitments late on Friday night and the pair have scheduled official visits to Florida State. John Garcia has been all over this one (hat tip), he also has put in futurecasts for both of the twins to end up at Florida State.

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NOVEMBER 30TH:

Tylon Lee

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Sean Poret

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Teriq Mallory

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POTENTIAL VISITORS:

Dallas Wilson - At least one other recruiting service is reporting that Wilson will be visiting for the Florida game on Nov. 30th. We cannot confirm that his visit has been scheduled.

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