So Chip steps down as head coach at UCLA and takes OC position at Oh. St.

Florida State (13-10, 7-5 ACC) travels to Virginia Tech (13-10, 5-7) on Tuesday at 9 p.m. on ESPNU. Bob Wischusen and Jon Crispen will be on the call.

This is a big opportunity for FSU to position itself for one of the top four seeds in the ACC Tournament. The Seminoles (7-5) are chasing Wake (8-5) in the league standings. If FSU can pick up a fifth league road win, they would pull even with the Demon Deacons but have the tiebreaker edge on the head-to-head win.

The Seminoles are seeking to defeat VT for the eighth time in the last 10 meetings.

FSU will wear its turquoise Nike Seminole Heritage uniforms on Tuesday night. It’s the eighth time the Seminoles have worn the uniforms for an ACC game, and FSU is 5-2.

The Seminoles are shooting 31.5 percent from 3-point range after a dreadful 2-of-16 performance against Virginia. FSU ranks 281st in Division I in shooting percentage from beyond the arc. It feels like FSU is capable of hitting 3s in bunches, almost streaky, with Darin Green Jr. able to make some from NBA range and beyond. But the full-season numbers show it's not a strength.

Cam Corhen is shooting 80.6 percent from the floor (25 of 31) in his last seven games.

FSU had eight blocks against Virginia on Saturday and now has 98 on the season.

VT has dropped three straight games (Duke, Miami and Notre Dame) and is ranked 62nd by KenPom.

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Roydell Williams grew up in Hueytown, Ala., and on many Friday nights watched Jameis Winston play football.

“With me being such a young age, I used to go to all of the high school football games,” Williams recalled. “It was kind of wild to see him on the team (at FSU). He won the Heisman. At a young age, I’m still kind of figuring things out. I know what’s going on, but I don’t. It was like, ‘Ok, I can do that there. Let’s try it. Let’s go for it.’ ”

Williams was motivated in part by Winston. And on Tuesday he reflected on being in elementary school, watching YouTube workout videos, wanting to do push-ups and sit-ups. “I wanted to be built,” he said.

FSU sports information:

Florida State sophomore guard Ta’Niya Latson is one of 30 players nationally selected to the 2024 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Player of the Year Midseason Team, announced on Tuesday by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.

Latson adds another in-season national honor to her list. She is on the Wooden Award Late Season 20, the Wade Trophy list as well as the Ann Meyers Drysdale Top 10 Finalist list.

Last season, the Miami native was also on the Naismith Trophy Midseason Team.

She leads the ACC this season with five 30-point games in conference play, coming off a 34-point performance against No. 12 Notre Dame. She ranks fourth in the league with 22.2 points per game in conference play, ranks third in assists per game (5.23) and also third in assist/turnover ratio (1.62).

Latson and the Seminoles face a key five-game stretch to end the regular season, starting with a road game at Wake Forest on Thursday at 6 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.

We will have updates this morning as four more newcomers meet with the media on Tuesday. (Of note, DJU is slated to talk on Wednesday morning.)

OL Richie Leonard IV (Cocoa, Fla./Florida)

RB Roydell Williams (Hueytown, Ala./Alabama)

WR Camdon Frier (Lake City, Fla./Columbia High School)

WR Lawayne McCoy (Miami, Fla./Miami Central High School)

FSU will have a bunch of representation later this month at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. 12 Seminoles have been invited to attend, including players from almost every position group.

and teammate of T Jones, Drake Stubbs. Handful of programs jockeying for position here

What intrigues you most abot soccer in the Big10 and what will you miss most about leaving the ACC?

Most talk is about the Big10. Besides the obvious, PSU and Michigan, who else is strong in soccer? ACC soccer definitely greater than the Big10 but how big is that gap really?

Of all of FSU's 2024 high-school enrollees, longtime running back commit Kam Davis looks to be among the most ready to contribute.

He's working on his speed and conditioning this offseason (and keeping receipts of people who think he's not fast enough).

Even though the 2023 football season just came to an end, we're already looking ahead to the 2024 season.

The ACC announced Monday that the ACC Kickoff media event in July will be a four-day event for the first time in conference history, spanning July 22nd through 25 at the Hilton Uptown Charlotte. The ACC also announced that FSU, which has a Week 0 game vs. Georgia Tech in ireland on Aug. 24, will go for the first day of the event on July 22nd alongside Georgia Tech, SMU and ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips.

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FSU being in an active lawsuit against its conference will no doubt be a talking point, especially with FSU talking the same day as Phillips. Additionally, it remains to be seen if this will be FSU's final ACC Kickoff, with the university having until Aug. 15 to announce it is leaving the ACC in time for the 2025 football season.

Watched great players like Wayne Gretzky, Magic, Bird, Montana, Jordan, Brady....mahommes is in that group. Cheering against them is a waste of time. I have been on the other side of many great performances from these guys....and many of us get upset cheering for the guy on the opposite side. More times than not your team is not beating these guys.

If both teams are guaranteed a possession? Feels like a brain fart on epic proportions for the niners.

They end up settling for a field goal and losing instead of knowing they needed to go for it.

Scottie Scheffler is pictured last year, making par at the raucous 16th hole on the way to a second straight win.
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Seven of the world's top 10 are entered for "The Greatest Show on Grass," which will again play to raucous, sold-out crowds.

Super Bowl week is here and, in a sense, so is the PGA Tour's Super Bowl.
Nothing on Tour is like the WM Phoenix Open, the self-described "Greatest Show on Grass" which plays to insanely large crowds with a good chunk of that insanity circling the par-3 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale.
A famous story Kenny Perry tells is when he checked into a Scottsdale hotel and told the clerk that he was in town for the Phoenix Open. "Oh, I love the Phoenix Open," she said. "I go there every night.”
So it's not exactly always about the golf at the WMPO. Want more evidence? Last year's edition was a signature event, featuring virtually all the Tour's top stars playing for a $20 million purse. But this year the event returned to "regular" status on Tour with an $8.8 million purse—and general admission tickets are sold out for Friday and Saturday.


Many big names are still coming, however, including world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler who is chasing a three-peat. Only four players have won three Phoenix Opens in its 90-year-plus history (Arnold Palmer, Gene Littler, Mark Calcavecchia, Phil Mickelson) and none did so in three consecutive years. The last player to win any Tour event three years in a row was Steve Stricker at the John Deere Classic from 2009–11.
The only players from the top 10 in the world not coming are Jon Rahm, who left for LIV Golf; and Rory McIlroy and Patrick Cantlay, who are taking the week off.
Below is the rest of the field for the Tour's wildest week.

2024 WM Phoenix Open Full Field​

132 players
Alexander, Tyson
An, Byeong Hun
Baddeley, Aaron
Berger, Daniel
Bezuidenhout, Christiaan
Bhatia, Akshay
Blair, Zac
Bramlett, Joseph
Brehm, Ryan
Buckley, Hayden
Burns, Sam
Cauley, Bud
Champ, Cameron
Cink, Stewart
Clark, Wyndham
Cole, Eric
Conners, Corey
Dahmen, Joel
Detry, Thomas
Donald, Luke +
Dumont de Chassart, Adrien +
Duncan, Tyler
Echavarria, Nico
Eckroat, Austin
English, Harris
Fitzpatrick, Matt
Fowler, Rickie
Fox, Ryan
Ghim, Doug
Glover, Lucas
Gordon, Will
Gotterup, Chris +
Griffin, Ben
Griffin, Lanto
Grillo, Emiliano
Hadley, Chesson
Hadwin, Adam
Hall, Harry
Hardy, Nick
Harman, Brian
Higgo, Garrick
Hodges, Lee
Hoffman, Charley
Hoge, Tom
Holmes, J.B.
Homa, Max
Horschel, Billy
Hossler, Beau
Hovland, Viktor
Hubbard, Mark
Im, Sungjae
Johnson, Zach
Kim, Michael
Kim, S.H.
Kim, Si Woo
Kim, Tom
Kitayama, Kurt
Knapp, Jake
Kohles, Ben
Kuchar, Matt
Laird, Martin
Lashley, Nate
Lee, K.H.
Lee, Min Woo
Lipsky, David
List, Luke
Lower, Justin
Lowry, Shane
Malnati, Peter
Martin, Ben
Matsuyama, Hideki
McCarthy, Denny
McNealy, Maverick
Merritt, Troy
Mitchell, Keith
Montgomery, Taylor
Moore, Ryan
Moore, Taylor
Mueller, Jesse #
Murray, Grayson
NeSmith, Matt
Noren, Alex
Norrman, Vincent
Novak, Andrew
Pan, C.T.
Poston, J.T.
Power, Seamus
Putnam, Andrew
Rai, Aaron
Ramey, Chad
Reavie, Chez
Rodgers, Patrick
Ryder, Sam
Schauffele, Xander
Scheffler, Scottie
Schenk, Adam
Schmid, Matti
Scott, Adam
Shelton, Robby
Sigg, Greyson
Snedeker, Brandt
Spaun, J.J.
Spieth, Jordan
Stadler, Kevin +
Stallings, Scott
Stevens, Sam
Streelman, Kevin
Suh, Justin
Svensson, Adam
Tarren, Callum
Taylor, Ben
Taylor, Nick
Theegala, Sahith
Thomas, Justin
Thompson, Davis
Todd, Brendon
van Rooyen, Erik
Vegas, Jhonattan
Villegas, Camilo
Wallace, Matt
Whaley, Vince
Woodland, Gary
Wu, Brandon
Wu, Dylan
Young, Cameron
Young, Carson
Yu, Kevin
Yuan, Carl
* - Open Qualifier
+ - Sponsor Exemption
# - Section Champion




Congratulations again to last week's winner @FSU & Golf

@Nolerball holds onto the overall lead but after another strong week R Murray pulls within 100 points.



Good luck to everyone this week

This won't be easy for another program to flip. Atkins closed early...

Orlando is just the first stop on the series but Florida State commits and high priority targets are already standing out.
https://floridastate.rivals.com/news/florida-state-commits-targets-impress-at-ua-orlando

A priority OL target for Florida State.

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Seems like he is improving with each camp. Won MVP at the Under Armour camp this past weekend.

@RHT 3

You alive? Mainboard is looking for you.

Updates from Rivals analyst John Garcia:

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FSU sports information:

The No. 4 Florida State softball team (4-1) defeated the Florida A&M Rattlers 8-2 on Sunday afternoon at the Seminole Softball Complex in the final game of the JoAnne Graf Classic.

Ashtyn Danley earned her second career start on Sunday and pitched for three full innings while striking out two and allowing two runs on five hits.

Florida State came out aggressive in the bottom of the first as Isa Torres started things off with a double. The Seminoles continued to work the count to draw three walks to with a walk that gave Florida State the early 1-0 lead over Florida A&M. At the next at-bat, freshman Jaysoni Beachum singled into deep right field, giving the Seminoles another two runs to increase their lead to 3-0. Kaley Mudge picked up her third RBI of the season to make the score 4-0 after the first inning.

The scoring didn't stop for the Noles in the second inning as Jahni Kerr led off with a single to start the inning. Kennedy Harp came in for Kerr on the base paths, and after advancing to second on a groundout, Harp stole third and score two pitches later on a grounder from Kalei Harding.

Michaela Edenfield drew a walk, and Amaya Ross reached on an error to put runners on the corners for the Noles. Edenfield scampered home when Ross stole second. Devyn Flaherty singled to left field to bring Ross home to give the Noles a 7-0 lead.

The Rattlers (0-5) score two runs in the top of the fourth inning, but Harding answered right back with her third home run and 11th RBI in five games for the Seminoles. Makenna Reid closed out the game by retiring eight out of the final nine batters.

The Seminoles will now play four top 10 opponents in four days at the Shriners Children's Clearwater Invitational. The Seminoles will open their week in Clearwater against No. 3 Stanford on Thursday at 4 p.m. on ESPNU.

FSU will be sending us photos from their two on-field photographers. Here's one they posted earlier:

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