A MESSAGE FROM FLORIDA STATE ATHLETICS
AND SEMINOLE BOOSTERS

Your steadfast devotion to Seminole Athletics has sustained us through good times and bad. While the 2024 football season has been difficult for all of us, we remain passionately committed to facing our current challenge head-on and setting our sights on a brighter future starting in 2025.

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Resilience has been a consistent hallmark of FSU football. Our program has repeatedly shown it, rising from despair to greatness. While this season has been discouraging, it doesn’t change the proven fact that we have what it takes to rise again—and quickly.

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The 2025 season opens against Alabama on August 30, 2025, at Doak Campbell Stadium. As the most crucial factor in our success, we need you there to help our team return to excellence. We invite you to continue to be a part of our wonderful tradition by renewing your support.

Why on earth would Alex Atkins still be employed by us next year? He obviously sucks at his job. Our veteran line has only gotten worse over time. Would Norvell really be stupid enough to keep him just to hold on to certain recruits? Does it even matter what recruits we land when Atkins hasn't shown the ability to develop anybody? I just cannot fathom how he could keep his job when he has been so awful at it.

Florida State’s improved depth was on display in the season opener, with six Seminoles coming off the bench and combining for 50 points.

Sydney Bowles had the biggest impact, scoring 18 points while adding a rebound, assist and steal in 19 minutes as the Seminoles cruised to a 119-49 win. The junior transfer from Texas A&M made 4 of 7 shots from beyond the arc as FSU shot 39.5 from long range.

Broadnax was on campus for the North Carolina game. He is one of the premier defensive back prospects in the state for the 2026 cycle. Here's what he had to say about his visit.

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Some interesting thoughts on player development / roster retention from Mike Norvell and Mack Brown:

Mack Brown was answering a random question at the end of a press conference when he detailed some of the wildness of roster retention in the transfer portal era. UNC’s coach was asked about Jacolby Criswell and how the quarterback has developed, when Brown opened up about the portal being open even when it’s not really open.

“I’m telling you, there’s agents calling kids every day saying, ‘I don’t know how much you’re playing. Would you like to transfer to this school?’ And we get calls every day. It’s unbelievable. From kids playing,” Brown said after UNC’s win over FSU on Saturday.

Florida State closed out its week of practice availabilities Wednesday morning. The Seminoles held their second and final open practice of the week before Saturday night's game at No. 10 Notre Dame (7:30 p.m. on NBC).

Here are our observations from the day's work:

• The offense started the day out pretty well in the customary one-minute drill during the first team period of Wednesday practices. Brock Glenn found Kentron Poitier for a first down on the first play of the drive. Then after a few failed plays (including a Darrell Jackson batted pass at the line), Glenn was given time to find a wide open Ja'Khi Douglas over the middle of the field for a huge chunk gain on 4th and 10. That set up a field goal in the final seconds, but the kick was blocked by Pat Payton and returned by Shyheim Brown for a "touchdown." Promising drive, but no points for the offense.
• As has been the case a lot lately, it wasn't a particularly great day for the offense. The downfield passing game wasn't there much in good-on-good work with the exception of 7-on-7 pass skelly, which is obviously much easier for the quarterbacks to operate in. The freshmen skill-position players were a big portion of the offense during this pass-skelly period. Lawayne McCoy and BJ Gibson picked up chunk yards on crossing routes and running back Micahi Danzy had a catch in the flat where he added some yards after the catch. McCoy also caught a very deep pass in 1-on-1s. But on the whole, the passing game didn't have a ton of success.
• On the ground, Sam Singleton had a few nice runs and Glenn had a rushing touchdown in goal-line work. But the defense made things hard for the offense through the largely situational practice.