If you can't enjoy the product on the field, mine as well enjoy it another way. Free money FWIW. With Brock Glenn at QB, this game won't be within 28.

A Legitimate Head Coach would have installed a fail-safe “system” by now to have avoided this embarrassing debacle occurring to/with our proud Program. Norvell is quite clearly NOT the right guy to change the trajectory….specifically because HE is the responsible coach for presiding over the current free fall trajectory. That’s an unacceptable reality. We simply can’t afford to wait until the Program is completely irretrievably destroyed under Norvell’s incompetent oversight and direction. I for one would contribute to a purpose-driven Collective earmarked to buyout Norvell and his Bad News Bears coaching staff, and fund the salaries of a Power 4 level competent coaching staff. There can’t be a more important Collective formed than for that singular purpose at this stage. Norvell, nor his Staff belong at FSU based on what we’re witnessing alone.

Can someone tell me why are secondary is never anywhere near the football when he passes thrown? And why the hell are we giving every single wide receiver 15 yards of cushion on a third and three play?

I hope it continues.

Oronde Gadsden -TE-6'5-230 - Reminds me of a bigger and better version of Johnny Wilson. He has one more season after this. Heading into tonight Gadsden had 16 receptions for 217 yards and 3 touchdowns. He record 10 catches against UNLV for 142 Yards. He now has 26 receptions for 359 yards.

Mason Taylor - 28 receptions for 280 yards and 1 TD. (LSU)


These two should have been recruited by FSU.

Sam McCall: former 5* safety recruit who converted to corner here. Struggled in limited PT as a corner and got a bag from Texas A&M. Lasted one season there, got hardly any PT there, and transferred again to Georgia St. . No recorded stats on the season. Has 3 years of eligibility remaining.

Malik McClain: former Rivals 100 WR recruit who had 5 tds here as a true freshman and sophomore. Had his reps being carnivores by guys like O Wilson, Pittman, Williamson, etc. the entire time he was here. FSU brought in Coleman the year he decided to transfer. Had limited production in one year at Penn St. Transferred again to ASU where he has no recorded stats on the season. 2 years of eligibility remaining (Covid year)

Vandrevius Jacobs: redshirted after supposedly being one of our best WRs as a true freshman. Transferred to SCar and is a starting WR a on a much team. (4 years of eligibility remaining)

Rodney Hill: showcase big play potential as a 3rd down back at FSU with ~350 yards in his first two years of limited PT. Transferred to Arkansas and is averaging 5+ ypc as their third down back on a much better team (3 years of eligibility remaining).

Omarion Cooper: the one bright spot on a terrible defensive backfield in 2021. Lockdown corner with two picks. Left after his sophomore year to go to Colorado where he started and played well on a bad defense. Transferred back to FSU after the season where he hasn’t bee able to get consistent PT on a bad defense and guys like D Brown, Knowles, Feagan, etc. (likely last year of eligibility)

Treshaun Ward: former walk on who averaged 5+ ypc at FSU. Randomly transferred to BC after getting a light load last year despite having success in limited opportunity. Averaging ~80 ypg and 6.0+ per carry as the lightning back alongside Robicheaux. (1 year of eligibility remaining)

Tate Rodemaker: left after getting replaced by DJU. Starting QB on an awful So Miss team. Has as many TD’S as int’s and a completion percentage over 60, something no FSU QB can say. Averaged 9.1 ypa and 5tds to no ints in his last year here. Can’t help but think he’d be doing much better than anyone we’ve got on the roster this year. (2 years of eligibility remaining)

Not to mention guys like Bishop Thomas, Quashon Sapp, Antavious Woody who might be looked as burned outs by their new schools (harder to come into a new school and be handed PT at most schools not named FSU, but the narrative that Norvell is some personnel genius is laughable. Not to mention the high school recurs that played him until NSD in Hunter, Auburn DE, etc

Those guys would all be adding value to this roster in spades.

Javion Hilson is expected back at Florida State this weekend.

As Florida State stares down the barrel of a disastrous season, is it time to admit that the portal has finally caught up to Florida State, or is it a product of everyone else catching up to using the portal?

https://floridastate.rivals.com/new...up-to-fsu-or-has-everyone-else-to-the-portal-

Another major hurricane potentially by midweek. Doesn’t look like Florida will escape this one.

FSU sports information:

The No. 6 Florida State soccer team (7-1-2, 2-1-1) fell 4-1 in a top-10 road battle against No. 4 Wake Forest (9-2-2, 4-1-1) on Thursday night. The Seminoles’ historic unbeaten streak came to a close at 32 total games, the longest in program history.

Both sides took time to break into the game before Wake Forest began to record dangerous early chances. Addie Todd made a huge diving save at her right post to keep the game even before parrying away a fiery near post effort. The Demon Deacons scored two goals to close out the first half.

Mere seconds into the second half, Jordynn Dudley played a forward cross to Kameron Simmonds who controlled the ball with her head before poking away the goal just 15 seconds into the second half. This marks the fastest goal in any half of play this season and Simmonds’ fourth goal of the season to put her joint-second in goal scoring this season. Wake Forest responded with two additional goals.

Florida State will look to bounce back as the team plays at Virginia Tech on Sunday. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. and available to stream on ACC Network Extra.

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This happens 2.5 hours before kickoff correct?

2025 RB Ousmane Kromah is expected to announce his commitment this weekend. Kromah has originally planned to announce his commitment last weekend but pushed it back. Last night I spoke with someone familiar with Kromah's decision making process who indicated that it has come down to a battle between Florida State and Georgia with Auburn still in it but thought to be behind the Seminoles and Bulldogs, at least right now.

This news comes as a little bit of a surprise because if you tally up the predictions of where Kromah will land next fall between all three major recruiting sites, Auburn was thought to be the leader. At least until last night.

The four-star product has attended games at UGA (9-7), Auburn (9-14) and Florida State (9-21). Kromah took his official visit to Auburn last May followed by visits to FSU and UGA in June. The Lee County (Ga.) product also took an unofficial visit to Florida State in July just before his senior season started and sources indicated to the Osceola that the visit went extremely well.

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Lots of questions are being asked about this perplexing season so I offer a few thoughts.

Please share yours for discussion.


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The No. 6 Florida State soccer team (7-1-2, 2-1-1 ACC) continues its road stretch against Virginia Tech (8-3-2, 3-1-1 ACC) on Sunday afternoon. The Seminoles have scored in 44 straight games, exceeding the original record of 33 set back in 2015.

Florida State meets Virginia Tech for the first time since Onyi Echegini scored a brace in the 4-1 home victory on senior night in 2022. FSU leads the series 21-0-2 over the Hokies and has won the past six meetings dating back to 2015.

FSU’s unbeaten streak came to a close at 32 games, a program record spanning over two seasons. The incredible run featured 29 victories, 108 goals, 20 shutouts, both the ACC regular season and tournament championship, a fourth national championship, and the program’s first unbeaten season.

Kameron Simmonds’ second half goal at Wake Forest was clocked in at 15 seconds, marking the fastest goal scored in a half from the team this season. Simmonds’ fourth goal puts her second on FSU goal scoring this season and marks her fourth goal in five games.

Taylor Huff leads the squad in all scoring categories with eight goals and five assists for 21 total points inside September. Huff is the fastest to reach 20+ points in the past five seasons and is only 7 points away from reaching her point tally from last season.

FSU has scored 34 goals in 10 games this season, the most in that span since 2009 (38). The defense has kept 11 clean sheets since the 2023 ACC Championship victory.

The two sides will kickoff at 1 p.m. and is available to stream on ACC Network Extra. Live video and stats will be available at Seminoles.com.

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The No. 16 Florida State volleyball team (10-3, 2-1) suffered its first conference loss of the season on Friday against Virginia (12-2, 2-1) in three sets (22-25, 21-25, 22-25) in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The two teams played a back-and-forth first set, but the Seminoles were not able to find much rhythm on offense as they committed eight attack and service errors to allow the Cavaliers to hang around. Virginia took advantage and were able to put the Seminoles away with a 25-22 win in the first set.

Virginia used a quick spurt in the middle of the second set to pull away from the Noles at 20-16, and FSU was unable to mount a comeback as they fell 25-21.

FSU jumped out to a quick lead in set three, but Virginia responded with a 6-1 run to take a 14-10 lead. The Cavaliers kept the Noles at distance and led the set 24-19. FSU rallied and scored three consecutive points to cut the lead to two, but a service error ended the match.

FSU was unable to find any rhythm on offense the majority of the night as they hit just .174. Audrey Koenig led the way with 10 kills while Iane Henke was a nice bright spot with nine kills on 19 attempts. Koenig has now recorded 10 or more kills in her last 10 matches.

FSU will return to action on Sunday at Virginia Tech. First serve is set for 1 p.m. and can be seen live on ACCNX.

He would have been worth taking DJ - wow kids a beast of a defensive end. Speed and power at the defensive end spot. He plays for Oregon. He will be a first round pick

In town with family who has not been here before.
Was wanting to take them to lighting the spear. But, wanted to catch the softball game at 5.
Anyone know what time the lighting of the spear is supposed to take place?

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The title of this story is "keys to victory," which sounds like a fairy tale to anyone paying a modicum of attention to Florida State and Clemson this year, but the assignment is the keys to a victory, right? So, I'll play along.

Keys to victory: One key would be for Clemson to catch a bad case of the 24-hour flu or a terminal case of over confidence. If I was Dabo, I would not show my players one frame of the 2024 FSU team's first five games. Instead, I'd feed them a continuous reel of the 2023 Seminoles' win over his boys and bring them with a blood thirst for revenge. But then I'm no Dabo. Strange things happen in college football every week, I'm not sure stranger than an FSU upset of Clemson, but here's what I think the keys would have to be for an upset to happen.

Don't lose Doak: FSU needs its fans cheering rather than jeering. Starting Brock Glenn will bring the biggest cheer of the year. If the offense can have a little early success it will buy equity with an angry fan base that could pay dividends later in the game. One big offensive play could spark the emotion that's been lacking from the players and the crowd and that would be an important step in the right direction.

Limit the bad stuff: Dropped passes, fumbles, penalties — especially of the unforced variety — missed assignments, blocks and head-scratching play calls, and on defense, limit the missed tackles, gash plays, third- and fourth-down conversions, second-chance opportunities. You can't hope to eliminate them, but you'll have to limit them.

Make more plays: Do the little stuff well. Run block. Protect the passer. If you can't block them, get run over slower. Fight and don't quit. Make a quick, easy throw. Throw the ball away rather than take a sack. Scramble for a first down when it presents itself. Don't turn a bad play into a disaster. Run your routes at the right depth. Look the ball in and catch the ball with both hands before trying to run. Run hard when you have it and block hard when you don't. Convert more third downs. If you see the ball on the ground, fall on it, value the possession. If Tigers QB Cade Klubnik throws it right at you, see receiver keys. Look it in. Catch the ball with both hands. Don't think about running it until you've secured the possession. And, for the love of God, show some emotion. Celebrate the good plays and buckle your chin strap a little tighter after your bad plays. Show no quit.

Prediction: 24-21 upset if the 'Noles Limit the Bad Stuff and Make More Plays and the Tigers don't come ready to play.

Thanks to Doug Mannheimer for sending. This plaque went up on Thursday

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Junior All-American Mirabel Ting has been named the ACC Golfer of the Month of September as she became just the third player in school history to win individual championships in consecutive events – at the Folds of Honor and the Schooner Fall Classic – as she helped lead the Seminoles to a second place finish at the Folds of Honor and to a third place finish at the Schooner Fall Classic.

The award marks the second time in her Florida State career that she has been named as the ACC Golfer of the Month. She also earned the honor in March of 2024.

Ting averaged 68.80 strokes in five rounds during the Seminoles’ two early season events. She carded scores of 70-72-68 in finishing at 6 under par (210) at the Folds of Honor Collegiate and totaled scores of 67-67 for a 6 under par total (134) at the Schooner Fall Classic. Ting is a total of 12 strokes under par through the Seminoles’ first two fall events.

“The best part of our first two tournaments of the fall is that my teammates played well, and we finished in the top three in both events,” said Ting. “We are all working hard to improve our games and that’s how we get better as a team. Getting better as a team is our main goal for the remainder of the fall of the spring seasons.”

With her wins at the Folds of Honor Collegiate and the Schooner Fall Classic, she is the fourth golfer in school history to earn individual championships in two consecutive starts.. Most recently Morgane Metraux won the individual championships of the Florida State Match Up (Feb. 12, 2017) and the Dickson Intercollegiate (Feb. 28, 2017) during the 2016-17 competition season. Nadia Ste-Marie was the second player in school history to win consecutive individual championships as she earned medalist honors at the Lady Seminole Invitational (Sept. 25, 1988) and the Beacon Woods Invitational (Oct. 16, 1988) in back-to-back outings during the 1988-89 season. Michele Guilbault earned a school record three consecutive championships at the Auburn Invitational (November 13, 1979), the Beacon Woods Tournament (December 11, 1979) and the Peggy Kirk Invitational (February 5, 1980).

Ting’s scores of 67 in the first and second rounds of the Schooner Fall Classic tied her career best scores for a single round. She has carded scores of 67 five times in her career.

Ting is currently ranked No. 9 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. She finished in eighth place at the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur, was a member of the International team in the 2024 Arnold Palmer Cup, and won the 2024 Fortuner Cup as well as the championship of the 2024 Malaysia Games.

Will Daylan McCutcheon remain committed to FSU is among the questions and debate:

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The No.26/ RV Florida State cross country teams competed at the Georgia Tech Invitational on Friday at the Bouckart Farm. Kaden Levings earned his first collegiate win in the 8k, while Jane Eiselstein earned the individual 6k women’s title.

Levings led the Noles, crossing the finish line in the 8k with a time of 25:07.55. Wynne Thomas followed in the fourth spot at 25:35.83. Michael Toppi rounded out the race for the Noles in seventh with a time of 25:49.74.

“Really satisfied with today’s results out in Georgia," said assistant coach Ian Frazier. “Our guys worked together early to establish an honest pace through the 5k to set themselves up for a strong finish.”

“Kaden Levings was especially impressive, as he leaned into the pace late and was able to earn a rare collegiate win in what was his season opener,” added Frazier. “I'm happy with the confidence he ran with. Same goes for our other two competitors. There’s still work to do over the final kilometer, but that will come with time and training.”

The women’s team collected their second win of the season with a total of 34 points.

Senior Jane Eiselstein had a strong performance in the women’s 6k, crossing the finish line with a winning time of 21:48.16. Ava Povich followed in sixth at 22:22.09. Dani Thompson was the third Nole to cross the line in eighth place at 22:25.14. Olivia Niewald placed ninth behind Thompson at 22:28.71 and Evie McIver was the fifth FSU scorer at 22:30.13.

"Coming home with the individual and team win feels great,” said FSU women’s head coach Cody Halsey. “This validates the consistent hard work and effort they put in each and every day. I’m proud of them and they took charge as a team early on and never looked back.”

“Jane had a breakout race, “ added Halsey. “I’ve been watching that build up for a while and I’m incredibly proud of the chance she took today. She made a decision to take the lead and push from the front with a lot of races left and it paid off. It was so rewarding to see her race with so much confidence.”

The Noles will host the FSU XC Invitational on Oct. 11 at Apalachee Regional Park, which will also serve as the Seminoles Hertiage event.