FSU has opened up Doak for an event this morning to boosters and media. We will have more but here is a look at west side:

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Rivals analysts Adam Gorney and Marshall Levenson discuss their impressions of Tramell Jones:

The show must go on. But Florida State’s Flying High Circus could use help, too.

FSU sports information:

Junior outfielder James Tibbs III added to his 2024 accolades Friday when he was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year for baseball. This is the sixth time a Seminole has earned the honor and first since Gage Smith won it in consecutive seasons in 2013-14.

Tibbs, from Marietta, Georgia, was also named the ACC Player of the Year, a unanimous first-team All-American, earned a spot on the CSC Academic All-District Team and won the ACC’s Postgraduate Scholarship Award. Tibbs was on the ACC Championship All-Tournament Team and a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy and Golden Spikes Award.

In the classroom, Tibbs graduated in May with a degree in political science and had a 3.53 GPA during his time at FSU. He was on the 2023 and 2024 All-ACC Academic Team and the ACC Academic Honor Roll all three years.

On the field, Tibbs led Florida State with 28 home runs, 95 RBI, a .777 slugging percentage and 58 walks. Tibbs 28 home runs are fifth in a season at FSU and the most since Marshall McDougall also had 28 in 1999. His 95 RBI are seventh in a season at FSU.

Tibbs helped lead the Seminoles back to the College World Series for the 24th time in program history and first since 2019 with a 5-for-6 game against Connecticut in the Super Regional, including three home runs. Tibbs matched his career high with six RBI in the Noles 10-8 win, with three two-run home runs that all either tied the game or gave FSU the lead, including the game-winner in the top of the 12th inning. It was FSU’s first three-home run game for a player since 2010.

Led by Tibbs, FSU tied its school-record 13 selections to the All-ACC Academic Team:

Senior first baseman Daniel Cantu (athletic coaching)
Junior outfielder Jaime Ferrer (sport management)
Freshman infielder Cal Fisher (finance)
Junior pitcher Connor Hults (social sciences)
Sophomore shortstop Alex Lodise (sport management)
Freshman pitcher Brady Louck (finance)
Senior pitcher Brennen Oxford (hospitality entrepreneurship)
Sophomore outfielder DeAmez Ross (communications)
Senior pitcher Noah Short (athletic coaching)
Sophomore third baseman Cam Smith (sport management)
Junior outfielder James Tibbs III (political science)
Junior pitcher Conner Whittaker (social sciences)
Sophomore outfielder Max Williams (finance)

Centerfielder Gage Harrelson announced today he's transferring from Texas Tech to FSU. Over two seasons in Lubbock, Harrelson posted a .407 OBP, a .300 batting average and made quite a few highlight plays defensively.

Thanks to Rivals' video team for providing the clips and to Nick Carlisle for editing:

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(Story from Rivals' Adam Gorney and Marshall Levenson)

Rivals charted all 400 throws at Wednesday's Elite 11 Pro Day with a simple grading scale for each based on a number system, with a range from 3 down to 1. Three represented "money" throws, on-time and accurate. Two represented catchable balls on target. One represented an off-target attempt.

FSU sports information:

Ten athletes with ties to the Florida State track and field will compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials from Friday-June 30 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.

Dajaz DeFrand, Tyra Wilson and Alexandra Webster will compete in women’s events, while Jeremiah Davis, Tyson Williams, and Kyvon Tatham will represent the men’s team.

Professional athletes Trey Cunningham, Issac Grimes, Ahmed Muhammed and Kasey Knevelbaard will also look to represent Team USA at the Paris Olympics.

DeFrand will compete in the 100-meter from June 21 –22. She will also be in contention for the 4x100 relay in Paris. Wilson is entered in the 400 hurdles set to begin June 27. Webster begins competition in the 100 hurdles on June 28.

Davis will compete on June 22 and 24 in the long jump, while Tatham and Davis are set for the triple jump on June 28 and 30.

Williams and Cunningham are entered in the 110 hurdles running from June 24-28.

Muhammed (2022) and Knevelbaard (2019-2021) will compete in the 5,000 on June 27.

The top three finishers in each event will make Team USA, provided they have met the Olympic qualifying standard. Any additional athletes, based on their results from trials can also be added to relay pools.

Coverage of the U.S. Olympic Trials will be streamed live each day between NBC, Peacock and USA.

Twenty prospects are set to begin their official visits at Florida State this weekend.

Pat Burnham and Nick Carlisle will have photos of the prospects as they arrive on Friday, and we'll update this thread:

FSU is hosting 5-star QB Brady Smigiel and his family are back on campus for the second time since April for a multi-day visit.

We began hearing on Sunday that FSU might have found its 2026 QB. This visit, his second in three months, points to FSU landing Smigiel sooner rather than later.

I put in a Futurecast for Smigiel to commit to FSU.

Fish also believes Smigiel is the guy.

He and his family were welcomed to the Moore Center today by well over a dozen members of the FSU coaching and support staff. The organized welcome is generally something you see on official visits.

He has already spent part of his morning with quarterback coach Tony Tokarz.

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Adam Gorney takes a look at the 10 biggest recruiting visits around the nation. Included are Javion Hilson to FSU and Kaliq Lockett to Texas:

Just 72 hours after his visit to FSU concluded defensive tackle prospect Justus Terry has decommitted from USC.


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Terry was scheduled to take his official visit to USC this weekend. He visited UGA on the weekend of May 31.

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Florida State diver Samantha Vear advanced to the final of women’s 3-meter at the U.S. Olympic Trials at the University of Tennessee.

In prelims, Vear finished 15th, scoring 223.25 after five dives, advancing to the semifinals.

Needing to finish within the top 12 to move on to the final, Vear scored above 50 points on four of her five dive, securing her spot. She placed 11th with a score of 262.95.

The Conroe, Texas, native will dive in the final on Saturday, at 7 p.m. Coverage will air on NBC and Peacock.

I’ll start…

The NBA - offenses are so much better these days

Saturday Night Live - there were some good actors back then but the humor is more balanced now.

Music - lots of variety, not the same boring classic rock over and over.

What do you all think?

Another FSU baseball trip to Omaha has ended in heartbreak.

And yet, after watching the Seminoles' remarkable turnaround this season, I've never been more convinced that, at some point, Link Jarrett will finally bring FSU that elusive national title.

A look at the 20 quarterbacks who worked out at the Elite 11 Pro Day:

Recruiting often is about relationships. And in JaDon Blair's view it’s the potential of a life-long relationship.

The four-star safety wrapped up his official visit to Florida State on Thursday. He reflected on meeting coach Mike Norvell, connecting with second-year safety Conrad Hussey and spending time in a virtual-reality room. But it was also a personal conversation with Mike Norvell that stood out.

“When I was in his office, and he was talking about the one thing that he wants from me later, it's just the text,” Blair said. “Fifteen years later, he just wants the text. I really appreciate that because that speaks volumes for itself. If I text you that means we're locked in. If I can text you 15 years from now, and you text me back, that means I was successful. That means I made it, like we said.

“That's what I like. That's what I really liked about coach Norvell and just how he respects his players. He wants you to respect him and the coaches of course, but it's all out of love.”

Via Yahoo's Ross Dellenger:

College basketball moved one step closer this week to an expanded NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

NCAA officials on Wednesday presented to Division I conference commissioners at least two models of an expanded field, one with an additional four teams and another with an additional eight teams, commissioners told Yahoo Sports. Officials declined to speak publicly about the models.

The models would expand the 68-team field to 72 or 76 teams, with additional at-large selections as well as at least one additional First Four site. Any expansion would begin, at earliest, in the 2025-26 season. If the men’s event expands, the women’s tournament is likely to undergo a similar expansion.

Dan Gavitt, NCAA vice president for the men’s basketball championship, unveiled the models in a presentation Wednesday at the commissioners’ annual summer meeting. In the culmination of months of work, Gavitt outlined possibilities for what commissioners believe to be an inevitable expansion of the men’s event — a movement mostly championed by the power conferences, something Yahoo Sports reported in February.

As a way to avoid eliminating any of the 28 small-conference automatic qualifiers — a time-honored and popular concept with fans — NCAA and conference leaders are targeting the addition of at-large selections as has been done in the past. The last expansion, in 2011, added four at-large teams and created the First Four in Dayton, Ohio, where two pairings of 16 seeds and two pairings of at-large selections meet in play-in games.

FSU sports information:

After winning the ACC Indoor Field Performer of the Year in 2024 and 2023, Jeremiah Davis was named the ACC Men’s Outdoor Field Performer of the Year, the conference announced on Thursday.

Davis becomes the third Seminole in program history to capture the award for the outdoor season, joining Isaac Grimes (2021) and FSU Athletics Hall of Fame member Ngoni Makusha (2011), who won the Bowerman Award in 2011.

Davis became the first student-athlete from the ACC to receive the ACC Field Performer of the Meet in three consecutive seasons after winning gold in both the long jump and triple jump at the 2024 ACC Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

The Lehigh Acres, Fla., native repeated as ACC Champion in the long jump with a mark of 7.95m (26-1¾), before claiming the title in the triple jump with a mark of 16.71m (54-10). It was the first time since 2018 FSU has won the event.

Davis went on to win silver in the long jump (8.07m, 26-5¾) before taking fourth in the triple jump (16.62m, 54-6½) at the NCAA Outdoor Championship, capturing his 10th and 11th career All-American honors.

“Multiple All-American and ACC honors throughout his career,” said jumps coach Leevan Sands. “Jeremiah is well deserving of this award. His hard work and dedication have earned him another accolade. I’m so proud of him and over the past two years he has shown relentless, commitment, and determination pushing through challenges and consistently striving for excellence. In his final season with Florida State, it’s been an honor to coach such an outstanding student-athlete.”