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Florida State football recognized four student-athletes with spring awards, head coach Mike Norvell announced Tuesday.

Offensive lineman Maurice Smith and defensive back Azareye’h Thomas earned the Parrish Owens Heart of a Nole Award, presented in recognition of outstanding leadership and commitment to the Florida State University football program. Defensive back Fentrell Cypress II earned the program’s Unconquered Points Champion, and long snapper Mason Arnold took home the Seminole Service Award.

“I am proud to recognize these four players for their work in the winter and spring,” Norvell said. “This is the first time we have done spring awards since I have been the head coach at Florida State. The commitment we have already seen from this year’s team has been remarkable, and I wanted to recognize that in a tangible way. Fentrell and Mason have been committed to supporting their teammates and other student-athletes at FSU while also focusing on academics and impacting the greater Tallahassee community. Maurice and Azareye’h did a great job of continuing to grow throughout spring practices and have emerged as leaders on our team. Their work to continue getting better on the field while also exemplifying and upholding our standard in the classroom and in the community provided a tremendous example to our team.”

The criteria for the Parrish Owens Heart of a Nole Award includes showing leadership on and off the field, consistency through 15 spring practices and high performance in the Unconquered Accountability Challenge, which provides points for every aspect of expectations on and off the field during the offseason program.

“Parrish Owens has a remarkable heart for Florida State as an institution and a commitment to the student-athletes here at FSU,” Norvell said. “His leadership has made a valuable and appreciated impact on our program, and Maurice and AZ are worthy recipients of the first Parrish Owens Heart of a Nole Award.”

The Seminoles will begin preseason camp in July to continue preparations for their season opener on Aug. 24 in Dublin, Ireland, against Georgia Tech.

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The Florida State women's soccer program and head coach Brian Pensky has continued their offseason momentum with another premier signing in Jordyn Bugg, who recently reclassified to the fall of 2024.

The defender out of El Cajon, California, was deemed the No. 4 overall recruit nationally in the class of 2025, before her reclassification. Bugg has spent the past several years training with the San Diego Wave of the NWSL. She has been a consistent piece in the US Youth National Team program. Most recently, Bugg traveled to Germany with the U-20 United States Youth National Team, where she joined current Florida State players Jordynn Dudley, Heather Gilchrist, Maggie Taitano and Taylor Suarez. The U-20 squad played friendlies against Germany and Canada as all five Noles work to earn spots on the 2024 World Cup Team. In the fall of 2023, Bugg was the only player to start all five matches with the U-19 USYNT, as they earned Bronze at 2023 Pan American Games.

In the Fall of 2022, Bugg competed in the U-17 World Cup for the United States in Bhubaneswar, India. Bugg played in three out of the four matches at the World Cup while also making a start in the second group stage match against Brazil. Bugg has also made appearances on the U-16 USYNT in 2022. Bugg was a two-time ECNL Southwest All-Conference First Team honoree. Bugg was also a basketball and track athlete.

Bugg comes from an athletic family as her dad, Patrick, played football at Eastern Kentucky while her mom, Tam - a Tallahassee native - played basketball at Eastern Kentucky. Bugg is also the cousin of Terrion Arnold who played corner at Alabama and is a projected first round pick in this year's NFL Draft. Bugg is the oldest of five children.

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Florida State softball's Jaysoni Beachum was named the ACC Player of the Week on Tuesday morning thanks to her performance in five games against Alabama State and Boston College last week. Beachum is the first Seminole to win the award this season and is the first true freshman from Florida State to be named ACC Player of the Week since Sydney Sherrill on April 10, 2018.

Beachum has had one of the best freshmen seasons in school history and this past week was no different. Beachum hit four home runs in five games and tallied eight RBI to bring her season total to 50. Beachum hit .467 on the week with seven hits and was also walked four times to end the week with a .550 on base percentage. Beachum also posted a 1.333 slugging percentage.

Beachum is not only one of the best freshmen hitters in the country but one of the best overall hitters in the country. Beachum's .447 batting average ranks 12th in the country. Beachum also ranks in the top 25 nationally in hits, RBI and slugging percentage.

Beachum is on pace to break the FSU freshman record for batting average, hits, RBI, slugging percentage and on base percentage. She needs just nine RBI to break Sherrill's freshman record of 58 RBI which would also put her seventh all-time on FSU's top 10 list for most single season RBI.

The Seminoles will be back in action Wednesday night when they take on No. 10 Florida in Gainesville. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. and can be seen live on SEC Network+.

(Updates on Jasper Parker, Jordan Girdon and Preston Ashley)

With so many visits and spring games going on there has been an information overload this week and so a second Recruiting Rumor Mill was needed. Here’s the latest from Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney.

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Florida State Athletics and the Seminole Boosters have created a new fan involvement opportunity to support the Marching Chiefs with the formation of the Marching Chiefs Coaches Club, it was announced Monday.

“Florida State has an unmatched game day environment, and the Marching Chiefs play a huge role in that,” FSU Vice President and Director of Athletics Michael Alford said. “With this new initiative, we are providing fans an opportunity to directly support the Marching Chiefs’ efforts to take the impact they create inside Doak Campbell Stadium to support the team on the road. We look forward to other stadiums feeling a little bit more like home while allowing fans in different areas of the country, and world, to experience the Marching Chiefs.”

The new Marching Chiefs Coaches Club will enhance the travel fund, allowing band participation at more away games. Previously, the band was limited to one or two road games per year, but with the support of the Marching Chiefs Coaches Club the Marching Chiefs have plans to travel with a pep band to Dublin, Ireland, Dallas and Miami during the 2024 season.

“The Marching Chiefs are an essential part of the Florida State game day,” Seminole Boosters President and CEO Stephen Ponder said. “They enhance our atmosphere for the fans and give our sports teams a competitive advantage. Seminole Boosters want to ensure that their program is funded properly to continue their legacy of excellence.”

Fans who get involved with the Coaches Club will experience a greater connection with the Marching Chiefs and FSU Athletics, while directly impacting away games. The Marching Chiefs, part of the FSU College of Music, is an academic ensemble comprised of 420 students from across the university. The Marching Chiefs support athletic events throughout the school year, bringing a high level of performance and an unrivaled school spirit to the events in which they participate.

“The College of Music is excited to be working closely with Seminole Boosters to support the Marching Chiefs,” Dean of College of Music Todd Queen said. “This unprecedented new partnership will support travel activities for our Marching Chiefs, who serve as important ambassadors for the university.”

Seminole Boosters, the official Direct Support Organization for Florida State Athletics, established Coaches Clubs for each varsity team at FSU more than 20 years ago to allow fans to be part of the programs they love while supporting specific initiatives within each program that aren’t covered by the annual budget. Coaches Club donations can be made at SeminoleBoosters.com.

After starting to sell turquoise football uniforms last fall, FSU's QBs are wearing the turquoise Seminole Heritage uniforms for today's Spring Showcase.

Feels like a big step towards using them in a game.

Took down the #1 seed UVA to bring home the first ever ACC Title for the Noles! Down 2-0 early and eventually 3-1 in match count, the Noles clinched the title 4-3 by winning #1 singles over the #4 player in the nation!

Over the moon. Congrats to Coach and the team!

The women had a great run as well as they made it to the semis, and were also on hand to watch the men win it.

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Redshirt freshman FSI wide receiver Vandrevius Jacobs has entered the portal. Jacobs was a standout last spring as a true freshman but had just 60 yards and a touchdown in 2023.

Also an important note, Ferrer was just getting some rest today. He could have gone but Link gave him the day off.

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Florida State returns home to play host to North Florida on Tuesday at 6 p.m. There will be a live stream on ACC Network Extra.

The Seminoles are coming off a 1-3 week but have the benefit of two full off days as the Wake series wrapped up on Saturday night.

RHP Matt Sauser will be on the mound for FSU in a starter (opener) role.

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Florida State Men’s Golf sophomore Luke Clanton has been selected to represent Team USA in the 2024 Arnold Palmer Cup held at Lahinch Golf Club in Lahinch, Ireland, from July 5-7. The announcement was made on Tuesday afternoon on the GOLF Channel.

Clanton is one of 10 USA men’s selections by the committee, currently ranking No. 2 overall in collegiate golf according to the latest Clippd ratings used by the NCAA. The Hialeah, Fla., native and American Heritage High School performer is shooting 69.30 in the 2023-24 academic year, an average that would break the single-season low at FSU.

The Arnold Palmer Cup was co-founded by Arnold Palmer and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) and began at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Fla., in 1997. The event is a Ryder Cup-style tournament featuring the top men’s and women’s university/college golfers matching the United States against a team of International players.

The Palmer Cup has been played at some of the world’s greatest courses, including The Old Course at St. Andrews, The Royal County Down, Royal Portrush, Baltusrol, The Honors Course, and Cherry Hills. Beginning with the 2018 matches at Evian Resort Golf Club, the Palmer Cup is the only major tournament that features men and women playing side-by-side as partners.

Clanton joins Mirabel Ting of Florida State Women’s Golf among the Seminole representatives in the Arnold Palmer Cup, as she will be playing for the International Team.

The famous Irish links at Lahinch Golf Club were supposed to host the Palmer Cup in 2020, but had its location postponed due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Clanton’s selection gives Florida State Men’s Golf its eighth participant in the Arnold Palmer Cup since 2007, joining teammates Frederik Kjettrup (2022, 2023) and Cole Anderson (2023), John Pak (2020), Jonas Blixt (2007, 2008), Rowan Caron (2015), Harry Ellis (2017) and Vincent Norrman (2020).

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Florida State All-American Mirabel Ting has been selected to play as a member of the International Team in the Arnold Palmer Cup, which will take place at the Lahinch Golf Club in Lahinch, Ireland, July 5-7, 2024. It marks the second consecutive year Ting has played for the International Team at the Arnold Palmer Cup. Florida State All-American Lottie Woad was selected to play for the International Team but declined the invitation in order to play in the Amundi Evian Championship in France – the second major of her career.

The United States defeated Ting, Woad, and the International squad by a 32-28 margin in the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup at the Laurel Valley Club in Ligonier, Pa.

The Arnold Palmer Cup was co-founded by the great Arnold Palmer and the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) in 1997. The event features the top-ranked men’s and women’s collegiate players.

Ting finished in a tie for eighth place at the recently completed Augusta National Women’s Amateur at Augusta National Golf Club.

In her first season at Florida State, Ting has helped lead the Seminoles to the team championship at the Guadalajara Collegiate Invitational championship and five top-five team finishes this year. She is ranked second on the team in stroke average (71.07) and earned medalist honors at the Valspar Augusta Invitational.

Ting earned 2.0 points in four matches during the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup. She helped earn points in the Friday Foursome match as well as in her Saturday Singles match.

In her first season at Florida State after transferring from Augusta University, Ting has one individual tournament championship and six top-eight individual finishes in six events. She finished in a tie for seventh place in last week’s ACC Championship. Ting is a cumulative total of 13 strokes under par in her six events as a Seminole.

“It’s an honor to be named to the Arnold Palmer Cup team for the second time,” said Ting. “The Arnold Palmer Cup tournament is a fun week when we get to partner up with the boys. Last year I was not quite ready with my game. It’s all about the small things in the game that I was not ready for a year ago. Florida State’s coaches have helped me improve a great deal. It’s not an individual game anymore. What I learned last year (at the Arnold Palmer Cup) is that I have to practice and play the shots that I’m not used to playing.”

Ting’s selection to the 2024 Palmer Cup marks the fifth time since 2019 that the Seminole Women’s Golf team has been represented in the event. The Seminoles will be represented by Ting in 2024, were represented by Woad and Charlotte Heath in 2023, Amelia Williamson in 2022, Beatrice Wallin in 2021 and Frida Kinhult in 2019. Robert Duck, a current Seminole Assistant Coach and former member of the Arnold Palmer Cup selection committee helped lead the International team along with Kinhult in 2019.

Under Bond, the Seminole women’s program has had an Arnold Palmer Cup player in five of the seven years since the Palmer Cup expanded.

The Ryder Cup style competition features men’s and women’s collegiate golfers from the United States against a team of international players.

Will FSU tie or break its program record of 11 players taken in a single NFL Draft this week?

I rounded up seven-round mock drafts from a few national outlets to see how many Seminoles could be drafted this week.

The Rivals Camp Series' stop in Atlanta had a deep group of receivers and tight ends on Sunday. Naturally, there was recruiting news coming from that group as well.

Rivals national recruiting analysts Adam Friedman and John Garcia Jr. have the latest on several names.

The FSU vs ACC court case resumes Monday at 9:30 am at the Leon County Courthouse. Judge John Cooper will again be presiding.

The legal team for FSU, including general counsel Carolyn Egan, has arrived. This includes attorneys Peter Rush and David Ashburn.

Alan Lawson leads the ACC's legal team.

Catch up: Allnoles' lawsuit updates

We will have updates below from court room 3G in the thread

The RBC Heritage is still in its traditional post-Masters spot on the schedule, but now with a new boost as one of this season’s designated events.
Located just 130 miles from Augusta National, the RBC Heritage been a staple on TOUR since 1969. The tournament has a reputation for offering a relaxing trip to the South Carolina Lowcountry after the stress of the year’s first major. Players can’t ease up with another strong field to face, however.
Masters champion Jon Rahm, PLAYERS champion Scottie Scheffler and world No. 5 Max Homa will add to their limited history at Harbour Town this week. Rahm’s only appearance in the RBC Heritage came in 2020, while Scheffler will be making his tournament debut.
They’ll be facing a course that makes up for its lack of length with tight fairways and the TOUR’s tiniest greens. Harbour Town’s famed finishing hole, flush against the Calibogue Sound, is one of the most scenic settings on TOUR, with the famed red-and-white lighthouse standing sentry over the green.
The winner will hoist the trophy on Harbour Town’s 18th green with the satisfaction that he beat the best players in the game on a classic layout that offers a distinctive test.

FIELD NOTES: FIELD

FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 500 FedExCup points.
COURSE: Harbour Town Golf Links, par 71, 7,121 yards (yardage subject to change). The Pete Dye/Jack Nicklaus design has hosted the RBC Heritage since the 1960s and continues to challenge the best golfers in the world with its small and contoured putting surfaces, overhanging mossy oaks, tight fairways, and strategically placed bunkers.
Look for an elite ball striker – or someone who has an elite ball-striking week – to be near the top of the leaderboard again come Sunday. Both of the winners at Harbour Town the last two years (Jordan Spieth and Stewart Cink) were first at week’s end in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green.
72-HOLE RECORD: 262, Webb Simpson (2020)
18-HOLE RECORD: 61, David Frost (2nd round, 1994), Troy Merritt (2nd round, 2015).


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

@FSUdawg extends the overall season lead as the tour heads to South Carolina



Good luck to everyone this week

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No. 2 seed Florida State Men’s Golf reached the ACC Match Play Finals on Monday after defeating Georgia Tech, 3-0, but ultimately fell in the championship match against top-seeded North Carolina, 3-1.

Redshirt senior Cole Anderson delivered two match-play wins on Monday, taking down Georgia Tech’s Kale Fontenot 3&2 in the match play semifinals and then defeating North Carolina’s Dylan Menante 5&3 in the finals. The Camden, Maine, native looked assertive all day and withstood all the pressures that come with match play golf.

Freshman Tyler Weaver clinched FSU’s victory over the Yellow Jackets 3&2, tying with opponent Hiroshi Tai on the seventh hole to put the match out of reach up three holes with only two to play.

Senior Frederik Kjettrup, who was a co-champion of the ACC Championship in stroke play, got his match play off to a strong start after defeating Georgia Tech’s Bartley Forrester, 3&2. North Carolina’s Peter Fountain ended the match before Kjettrup mounted his comeback separately against the Tar Heels, being two holes down through 14 before tying the match on the 16th hole after a string of birdies.

Senior Gray Albright’s match went unfinished against Georgia Tech, but he held a 2UP lead with three holes remaining when Weaver clinched the semifinals.

The finals was billed as a pair of golf heavyweights, the top two seeds from the league in a match that virtually went down to the very end. Despite being down 4-1 later in the match, both Kjettrup and Brett Roberts stayed resilient despite the loss – nearly helping the Seminoles pull off the comeback.

The NCAA Men’s Golf Selection Show will air on May 1 from 2-3 p.m. on the GOLF Channel. FSU looks to go even further than its Match Play Semifinals run last year where it tied for third nationally.

Photos from Kathy Hitchcock:

Written by Lucy Mowrey, who helped out greatly at the showcase this weekend.
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Wrap-up story from us on today's court hearing:

Leon County Circuit Court Judge John Cooper emphasized the Florida State-ACC case is not over, but he ruled in favor of FSU on the motion of ripeness and strongly encouraged mediation between the parties within 120 days.

Cooper has 10 years of experience as a mediator and emphasized FSU and ACC could resolve disputes and find “acceptable” terms while saving legal fees. He emphasized the word “acceptable” multiple times when discussing mediation.

For the third time in the last four years, No. 2 seeded Florida State Men’s Golf has reached the match play semifinals of the ACC Championship. The Seminoles tied for second on Sunday at 4-under (280-275-293) alongside Georgia Tech and Wake Forest to earn a coveted Top four spot on Monday.

Senior Frederik Kjettrup also was named co-champion of the ACC Championship alongside Wake Forest’s Michael Brennan. Kjettrup finished at 7-under (68-67-71) and went toe-to-toe with Brennan for five playoff holes on hole No. 18 before being declared a co-champion. It is Kjettrup’s third collegiate title.

North Carolina (-10) won the stroke-play portion of the tournament and will be the No. 1 seed in match play. Monday’s match play semifinals begin at 7:30 a.m. with coverage beginning at 9 a.m. on ACC Network Extra. The winner of the two semifinal matches play in the ACC Championship final later on Monday starting at approximately 1:30 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.

FSU will face Georgia Tech on Monday in the semifinals, with Kjettrup up first for the Noles by teeing off at 7:36 a.m. The winner will face either North Carolina or Wake Forest in the finals on Monday afternoon.

Sophomore Luke Clanton finished fifth at the ACC Championship, shooting 5-under (69-67-72) and ending his impressive streak of eight consecutive rounds in the 60s. As the Seminoles tried to hold on to a Top 4 position on the back nine, Clanton did his job with eight pars on his final nine holes played.

Seniors Brett Roberts and Gray Albright once again went neck-and-neck in the final round, with both shooting 75s and finishing 4-over for the tournament to each tie for 26th.

Substituting for the final round was freshman Tyler Weaver, who finished with a 75 on Sunday.

FSU is looking to win its second ACC title by the end of Monday, with its first and only one coming in 2008.

In addition to being streamed on ACC Network Extra, Monday’s matches can also be tracked on Golfstat.com.

Pulled up the notice. It's at 9:30 am in Courtroom 365B. It is set for 90 minutes. That is NOT a lot of time to address all the issues here. This is in TALLAHASSEE and will be on the ACC Motion to Dismiss or Stay the Florida lawsuit.

I am trying to think through how the court will have to address these issues. The ACC has raised good technical arguments that FSU failed to properly plead jurisdiction OR venue. Those are not trivial issues. These do not mean that the court won't have jurisdiction or that venue can't be proper here, but those have to be properly alleged to have the case go forward. This is the kind of legal technicality that will drive normal people crazy because it really is just a delay.

IF this is an issue, that is the first thing I expect the judge to address. What I don't know is whether he will go further than those issues if he decides FSU has not properly pled the case. I don't think the court will just "assume" those will be fixed and move to the merits or other venue issues, but I really just don't know. It is possible the court simply agrees that FSU has not alleged jurisdiction or venue properly, it could grant the ACC motion in part and dismiss the case with leave to amend the complaint to fix those issues.

If I was representing FSU I would seriously consider filing an amended complaint that is exactly like the operative one except for fixing these issues cleanly, ASAP, to remove that potential for delay.

If the court gets past these issues, I think next is the first filed/anticipatory suit exception/choice of law/venue aspect of the case and that could very well take the rest of the hearing time. I will be honest, the first filed and anticipatory suit stuff does not come up a lot. I am not sure what happens here, as I cannot find any evidence that Florida STATE courts have adopted the anticipatory suit exception to the first filed rule. Here is a nice article from The Florida Bar Journal talking about it in the federal context (and it's a good explanation to show how it works anyway, and it's not absolute).

So I think this will be a big argument. FSU can't just cite to a FLORIDA case saying there is anything wrong with filing anticipatorily. Judge Cooper may ask a lot about why he should adopt a rule not already adopted, talk about the pros and cons of the rule (there are clearly both), and about how it would work here. They could spend 30 minutes or more just going around on this issue. I can't begin to predict what Judge Cooper does on this.

Then the issue is whether the court gets to any substantive issues. First it will have to dispose of the claim that the dec action is not ripe. I don't think this one goes real long and I suspect Judge Cooper says the issues can be addressed and if any specific ones come up that are not properly set for dec action, the parties can re-raise the issue later. I just don't think he has time to mess with this one.

Substantive Issues

First is the claim our counts based on anti trust, etc. don't state a claim for relief. The law on this is bad. If he gets to issues, I could see him spending a lot of time on this and having an issue with it. But he will want to give them a chance to show him why the cases don't apply and will allow them a lot of time (he is always a fair judge like that but will be even more so with these folks). If I were the ACC, I would put this issue later in my arguments because it's one of the easiest and they may want to use some time on other legal issues.

Next is the unenforceable penalty stuff. I could see this being as far as the court could get in a 90 minute hearing. It's not a simple one. It is one that may actually be subject to motion to dismiss under NC law. The judge will have to address that question first. Indeed, if I am Judge Cooper, I issue an order that I want both parties to brief me on the choice of law question completely so we can address the issues cleanly at the hearing. In the end I think NC law applies and it will be interesting to see how those cases get argued. I want to see an FSU response to see what they have to say about these issues.

Breach of contract issues. I can't see how court gets this far, but the issue is more technical and substantive. I can see the judge addressing the issue of how much has to be pled, but don't think he gets into the weeds on dismissing breach of contract claims this early.

Fiduciary duty claims. I don't see how they get here. Will be interesting when they do argue it. I think Judge Cooper will have a lot of hard questions for FSU about how "The ACC" is to look at one program over the others.

Frustration of purpose. I don't think court get to this, but it could rule on the papers. I don't think this count goes far, but it may be that Judge Cooper says he's not ready to dismiss it and will deal with it in context of developed facts. That would be a win for FSU.

Catchall anti GoR claims. Hard to get here. Lots to talk about. I think this kind of thing will need its own hearing.

I don't think the court deals with the issues like SOL, waiver, etc. only because there may need to be some facts developed to have a full records. I would not be surprised, though, if he waded into those issues with the parties and asked some uncomfortable questions about what claims are likely barred.