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Davonte Brown will spend his final season of eligibility at FSU next fall, the school announced Monday morning. A former UCF standout, Brown did not break into the starting lineup this past season at Miami as a transfer addition.

FSU has further bolstered its defensive end depth with the addition of West Virginia transfer Tomiwa Durojaiye.

Okay quick, FSU D. Beam over and get on the field and shut Michigan down. I know y’all can do it.

Following up from earlier thread, that got deleted, regarding U Penn President resigning.

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Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned from her leadership role Tuesday, capping a dramatic fall from power fueled by both her response to antisemitism on campus and mounting allegations of plagiarism.

The resignation comes after weeks of criticism over her initial response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and early December comments at a House committee hearing that equivocated on whether calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated the campus code of conduct.

Though she had maintained the support of Harvard’s governing body, she also faced escalating external calls to resign over allegations that she failed to properly credit other researchers in her published work."

Very curious about his development. I know he came in after ACL injury but has size and was productive. Now 2 years off ACL injury what are thoughts on him moving forward

The FSU men’s basketball team has won four of its last five games, with more consistent defense and 40-plus bench points in the last two games.

Exactly how much this team has improved will be challenged tonight (7 p.m. on ACC Network) against Wake Forest, which has won nine straight games.

Setting a record for the largest maargin of defet in any bowl ever is a black eye for the program. Add the lawsuit vs the ACC and you have a future fair to partly cloudy.

He is going to hit the portal or has already done so. He would be my number 1 running back. Kid would be the perfect fit in MN offense. He is a difference maker at the RB spot. FSU has some nice backs but if you can get this kid the drop off from Benson leaving is gone.

All he's wanted to do since he was 3 years old was fly for a living. Says I can't believe I get paid to do this..... And he monitors these boards but I think just for football.

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Florida State University soccer star Beata Olsson has signed a professional contract with top division team AIK in her home country of Sweden. She capped her outstanding FSU career with a goal and two assists in the Seminoles’ National Championship win against Stanford on Dec. 4.

Olsson, a three-time All-ACC performer and two-time National Champion, had seven goals and nine assists during her senior season in 2023 and started all 23 games for the Seminoles in their record-breaking season.

She was sensational throughout FSU’s march through the post-season this year scoring the decisive goal in Florida State’s ACC Tournament semifinal win over No. 11 Pitt and had the assist on the winning goal in the ACC Championship match against No. 7 Clemson. She continued her stellar play with a goal against Morehead State in the First Round win over Morehead State in the NCAA Tournament. She followed that with an assist on FSU’s lone goal in the win over Texas A&M in the NCAA Second Round and scored the opening goal against Texas in the Third Round match.

Olsson, who is from Enkoping, Sweden, started 23 games as a junior in 2022 when the Noles reached the College Cup and 21 for the Seminoles during their 2021 Championship seas

Olsson was equally accomplished academically earning CoSIDA All-District Academic honors in 2023 and was an NCAA Elite 90 Winner in 2020.

CAREER ACCOLADES:

• 2023 National Champion
• CoSIDA Academic All-District (2023)
• ACC All-Tournament Team (2023)
• All-ACC Third Team (2023)
• TopDrawer Soccer Preseason Top 100 - No. 60
• TopDrawerSoccer Top-100 – No. 92 (2022)
• NCAA Elite 90 Winner (2022)
• CoSIDA Academic All-District (2022)
• ACC All-Tournament Team (2022)
• All-ACC Third Team (2022)
• All-ACC Academic Team (2021)
• National Champion (2021)
• United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region First Team (2021)
• All-ACC Second Team (2021)
• ACC Co-Offensive Player of the Week (October 5, 2021)
• TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week (October 5, 2021)

2023 HIGHLIGHTS:

• Finished the season with seven goals and nine assists.
• Started in all 23 games for FSU logging a total of 1,584 minutes.
• Had her best game of the season in the National Championship Game against Stanford recording one goal and two assists. (12/4).
• Scored the opening goal against Texas in the Third Round, marking a career-best five-game point streak (11/19).
• Assisted the lone goal of the night against Texas A&M in the Second Round (11/17).
• Scored her fifth goal of the season against Morehead State in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament (11/10).
• Provided the ACC Championship-winning assist against No. 7 Clemson (11/5).
• Scored the second and decisive goal in the ACC Tournament Semifinals against No. 11 Pitt (11/2).
• Recorded an assist in back-to-back games for the second time this season against No. 18 Pitt (10/19) and at Duke (10/22).
• Scored the opening and equalizing goal at Syracuse (9/21).
• Capitalized and scored the game-winning goal at eighth-ranked Clemson (9/15).
• Provided an assist in back-to-back games for the first time in her career against North Florida (9/7) and Florida (9/10).
• Scored the first goal of the season against Texas A&M (8/17) within the opening half-hour.

2022 HIGHLIGHTS:

• Started all 23 games for the Seminoles as a striker and played for the sixth-most minutes on the team (1,645).
• Totaled six goals and three assists for 15 points on the year.
• Recorded first assist of the season to Jenna Nighswonger at Georgia during the Seminoles’ 3-1 win on (8/21).
• Recorded 4 shots and 2 shots on goal in 65 minutes of play in a 1-1 draw against No. 16 Auburn _(8/25).
• Recorded her first goal of the season to aid the Seminoles in a 5-0 victory against Florida (9/4).
• Recorded 3 shots in a 5-0 victory against FGCU (9/8).
• Became the third Seminole this season to achieve two goals in a game in a 5-0 victory against Rice (9/11).
• Scored her fourth goal of the season in FSU’s 5-1 win over Louisville (9/22).
• Assisted on Florida State’s third and final goal in a 3-1 win over No. 14 Clemson (9/25).
• Scored her fifth goal of the season on a header in a 5-1 win over No. 12 Duke (10/13).
• Recorded an assist against LSU(11/18) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and scored the game-winning goal against No. 19 Pitt (11/20) in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

2021 HIGHLIGHTS:

• Played in 23 games with 21 starts during FSU’s 2021 National Championship campaign.
• Led the Seminoles in Points (29) and goals (14).
• Scored her first goal as a Seminole against Alabama (8/22).
• Tallied three shots on goal and a goal in the Seminoles’ 4-0 win against South Alabama (8/26).
• Earned her first brace of the season with two goals in a 5-2 win over Florida (9/2).
• Scored the fastest goal of the season in 29 seconds at No. 10 Auburn (9/12).
• Scored a goal at Louisville on her only shot of the game helping the Seminoles to win 3-0 (9/26).
• Earned five points during the Seminole’s 4-1 at Clemson with two goals and one assist to Jenna Nighswonger (10/1).
• Scored the game-winner during the 2-0 win at Virginia Tech (10/15).
• Recorded her third multi-goal game of the season with two goals at North Carolina in FSU’s 2-2 draw (10/21).
• Scored her 12th goal of the season during the first round of the NCAA Tournament against South Alabama at home (11/12).
• Scored on a breakaway in the second round of the NCAA Tournament against No. 25 SMU (11/19).
• Scored her third game-winning goal this season in the first overtime against No. 9 Michigan in the NCAA quarterfinals (11/26).

Spring 2021 (Florida):

• Seven goals led the 2020-21 Gators.
• Finished second on the team with 14 points.
• Southeastern Conference Offensive Player of the Week (March 29) after providing both goals in a 2-0 win at North Florida
• SEC Freshman Player of the Week (April 5), scored against Georgia (1-1 2OT) and at Miami (2-0)
• Enrolled at UF for the spring semester, starting each match.
• Had her first two-goal game against College of Charleston. It was the first two-goal match in a Gator debut since Savannah Jordan in 2013.
• Recorded another two-goal game against UNF
• Provided assist on Sammie Better’s goal versus Washington and a pair of assists versus FAU
• Assisted on Alyssa Howell’s goal with less than a minute remaining in the opening half of 6-0 win at Kentucky and again connected with Howell for tying goal in 43rd minute versus LSU
• Her five assists stood second for Florida

Club:

• IK Uppsala finished the 2019 Elitettan League in second place, earning the club promotion to the Damallsveskan (Sweden’s top division) in 2020
• Led Division 2 (Mellersta Svealand) in 2016 with 27 goals
• Three-year member of IK Uppsala Fotboll, where coached by Jonas Valfridsson

International:

• Member of Sweden U-19 National Team; scored seven goals during U-19 UEFA Championships qualification play
• Represented Sweden at the U-18 level versus Iceland and Norway in the summer of 2018
• Scored six goals for Sweden’s U-17 National Team in UEFA Championship qualification play
• Played in 39 matches for Swedish Youth National Teams (2016-20), scoring 10 goals with U-17 team and seven for U-19

FSU, Michigan, Washington and Georgia were the four best teams all year. The NCAA and ESPN should be ashamed of themselves. Michigan and Alabama would have both struggled to beat FSU with a full squad and Tate. Yes, FSU could have beaten Michigan or Alabama with Tate. Why, because when Trey Benson steps on the field against either team, he is the best running back. When Coleman and Wilson along with Bell step on the field against Bama or Michigan they have the better unit. If you had give Mike Norvell two weeks with Tate and this team, they would have had a legit shot at winning it all. Georgia and Washington to me were the two teams I felt were bad matchups. I have watched Washington all year and going score for score with them would have been tough. Washington has the best offense in the country....And their receiving corps is the real deal. Yes their defense is not great but they put so much pressure on you to keep up it does not matter. They are similar to LSU a few years ago. Washington defense while not great is not terrible. They get needed stops and get their offense back the ball...

Alabama, once again Kurt, and the rest of ESPN owe FSU an apology. That team was Saban worst since his first couple of seasons. They are very well coached but Michigan dominated Alabama today for three quarters. Bama was in the game because Michigan was trying to give the game away. I won't even get into the refs...But Michigan QB was tossed ten yards out of bounds that is a penalty for FSU every time. Alabama OL also chocked hold Michigan DL a few times and big plays happen. I will give Saban credit because this team does not have a QB. He does not have an elite OL or running game. His team found ways to win but there is one FACT....FSU was unbeaten and untied this year. They dominated Louisville offense...THEY EARNED THE RIGHT TO BE IN THE PLAYOFFS....And yes they got boatraced against Georgia...But UGA was not in the playoffs.....FSU had a legit shot to make it interesting.

The two teams that ESPN, Cowherd and Joe Klatt pumped up all year were Ohio State and Bama. And while both programs are great and I have a ton of respect for Saban....You don't get rewarded for past success. You don't tell a team that went unbeaten and those kids worked so hard to say to them...YOU ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH WHEN THE FACTS DON'T LIE. It is ok to admit that Bama and Ohio State are not as good. The reality is Oregon would beat both teams this year.

I really thought (and hoped) he would do better

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Twenty-one of the top 25 players in the Official World Golf Ranking will competing in the no-cut event with an overall prize money payout of $20 million.
In addition to McIlroy, the tournament will also be missing its defending champion, Jon Rahm, who rallied from eight strokes back with 17 holes to play in the final round a year ago to win the title by two over Collin Morikawa. The Spaniard, of course, made waves last month when he signed with the LIV Golf League in 2024.

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Given that the first LIV event wasn’t until February, questions arose as to whether Rahm might still be able to compete at The Sentry and the American Express later in January, another tournament in which he claimed the title. PGA Tour officials quickly squashed that notion, suspending Rahm from the tour and updating the FedEx Cup rankings from 2023 to take him out of his No. 18 spot and move all others up accordingly. That allowed Mackenzie Hughes to move from 51st to 50th and gain entry into this coming week’s event and all other 2024 signature events.
Here's the complete field playing in Maui:

PGA Tour winners in 2023​

Ludvig Åberg
Akshay Bhatia
Keegan Bradley
Sam Burns
Wyndham Clark
Corey Conners
Jason Day
Nico Echavarria
Tony Finau
Matt Fitzpatrick
Rickie Fowler
Lucas Glover
Emiliano Grillo
Nick Hardy
Brian Harman
Lee Hodges
Max Homa
Viktor Hovland
Si Woo Kim
Tom Kim
Chris Kirk
Kurt Kitayama
Luke List
Taylor Moore
Collin Morikawa
Vincent Norrman
Davis Riley
Justin Rose
Scottie Scheffler
Sepp Straka
Nick Taylor
Sahith Theegala
Erik van Rooyen
Camilo Villegas
Matt Wallace

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Kapalua: Plantation​

Lahaina, HI​

202PANELISTS

• Second 100 Greatest
• 100 Greatest Public
• Best In State

From Golf Digest Architecture Editor emeritus Ron Whitten:Most golf fans are familiar with Kapalua Golf Club’s Plantation Course, home of the PGA Tour's opening event each year. Located on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Maui, the Plantation was built from open, windswept pineapple fields on the pronounced slope of a volcano and is irrigated by sprinklers pressured solely by gravity. As the first design collaboration by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, it unveiled their joint admiration for old-style courses. The blind drive on the fourth, the cut-the-corner drives on the fifth and sixth are all based on tee shots found at National Golf Links. So, too, are its punchbowl green and strings of diagonal bunkers. It's also a massive course, built on a huge scale, Coore says, to accommodate the wind and the slope and the fact that it gets mostly resort play.So it's a big course. But what sets it apart in my mind are the little things. When I played the course years ago with Coore, it took only one hole for me to appreciate one of its subtleties. We were on the tee of the par-3 second, an OK hole but nothing riveting, nothing like the canyon-carry par-3 eighth or the ocean-backdropped par-3 11th. The second sits on a rare flat portion of the property. The green sits at a diagonal, angling left to right, and there's a string of bunkers staggering up the right side of the green. The first bunker appears to be directly in front of the green but is actually 40 yards short of it. When pointed out to me, I called it Gingerbread. Bill disagreed."The wind quarters off your left shoulder from behind you," he pointed out. "The green goes ever so slightly away from you from front to back and left to right. It is a very obvious situation, given the wind condition and the angle of this green; you know you should hit a shot left-to-right to fit the shot with the green. "But if the flag is at the front, there’s no way to fly that ball all the way to the hole and stop it close. You may stop it somewhere on the green, but nowhere within a reasonable putt. So you have to aim short of the green. They maintain the approaches so beautifully over here—firm approaches mowed at probably a quarter of an inch; you can literally putt from out there if you chose to do so. "But that brings that first bunker in play," Coore continued. "When the flag is up front, you are absolutely required to land your ball just over that first bunker in order to get it to bounce and run to that front pin position."Kapalua's second is a simple-looking hole with a great deal of thought behind it. I suppose a lot of present-day architects would not have placed that forwardmost bunker on the hole, in the interests of playability for high-handicap resort golfers. But most of the old-time architects probably would have used such carry bunkers, especially in the days before irrigation, when greens were hard as a rock and every approach shot had to be bounced aboard.Another reason why studying the history of architecture might just help your score.
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Top 50 on prior season's FedEx Cup​

Patrick Cantlay
Tommy Fleetwood
Russell Henley
Xander Schauffele

Sungjae Im
Adam Schenk
Tyrrell Hatton
Jordan Spieth
Denny McCarthy
Andrew Putnam
Adam Svensson
Harris English
J.T. Poston
Seamus Power
Cameron Young
Eric Cole
Byeong Hun An
Adam Hadwin
Tom Hoge
Brendon Todd
Cam Davis
Patrick Rodgers
Mackenzie Hughes
Hideki Matsuyama

A look at where a number of national college football outlets have FSU ranked in the way-too-early top 25 rankings for the 2025 season that were released last night/this morning?

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Just announced: FSU football legend Warrick Dunn has been elected into the 2024 class of the College Football Hall of Fame.

Jo Echegini wins the Heisman of College Soccer!!!

Check out Skycast on ESPN 2 and News of the championship game. You don’t have to listen to the talking heads and your game audio is the in stadium announcer! I love it!

In the portal.

I see UF seems to be losing lots of steering talent, I haven’t heard much abo it Miami other than missing all Qb’s. Admittedly, I don’t dig too deeply into them. Any news good or bad for them?

And I’ve been guzzling koolaid for a while now. . . But I firmly believe this offense will be potent. The improved talent, size, and depth of the OL may be the biggest reason. . . But the legs of Travis, his experience and time in the system, and now some playmakers at WR should all add up to be greater than the sum of the parts. One aspect helps another, which helps another. . .

Last season, even when Travis completed a nice pass, there just wasn’t any YAC’s by the receivers. We may see some of that this season. The running backs should not only be able to get tough yards, but have the ability to get chunk plays at any time. Sustain drives long enough and eventually one of the playmakers will break one (including Travis with his legs).

I know most will have a “I’ll believe it when I see it” type attitude, but I can’t wait to see this machine go. Hopefully we can really get some big leads so the second string can get some real minutes to continue to build for the future like we did back in the day.

Go Noles!