Norvell treading water

KingWard

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What high school recruiting fails to deliver, the portal can provide, as we are seeing with Indiana this year.
 

18IsTheMan

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FSU is screwed. USA Today had an article saying they can't afford to fire him and they can't afford to keep him.
 
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What high school recruiting fails to deliver, the portal can provide, as we are seeing with Indiana this year.
Not seeing the cloudy FSU program as a highly regarded portal destination. The one-year falloff is getting major press headlines and negative attention from players.
 

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Not seeing the cloudy FSU program as a highly regarded portal destination. The one-year falloff is getting major press headlines and negative attention from players.

True. Most players jumping in the portal are looking to upgrade their program. Right now, FSU is not an upgrade over anyone. They certainly won't command any top transfers from the FBS level. They could likely lure some top FCS transfers, but you're not rebuilding your program that way.

But back to my point in the post above, FSU is in the position they are in because Norvell has shunned high school recruiting in favor of the portal. And, the very best player they got via transfer, transferred in under the previous head coach.

Norvell's biggest portal move was bringing in DJ and that gave absolutely disastrous results. Predictably disastrous.

As it stands, FSU is not just one or two key players away. They need a roster overhaul.
 

KingWard

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Not seeing the cloudy FSU program as a highly regarded portal destination. The one-year falloff is getting major press headlines and negative attention from players.
Could be; could be not. I don't know anything about their payroll.
 

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What high school recruiting fails to deliver, the portal can provide, as we are seeing with Indiana this year.
It just can be all portal players, IU lost 26 players to the portal, and picked up 9.
Somebody up there obviously knows what they are doing, with what they have
 

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True. Most players jumping in the portal are looking to upgrade their program. Right now, FSU is not an upgrade over anyone. They certainly won't command any top transfers from the FBS level. They could likely lure some top FCS transfers, but you're not rebuilding your program that way.

But back to my point in the post above, FSU is in the position they are in because Norvell has shunned high school recruiting in favor of the portal. And, the very best player they got via transfer, transferred in under the previous head coach.

Norvell's biggest portal move was bringing in DJ and that gave absolutely disastrous results. Predictably disastrous.

As it stands, FSU is not just one or two key players away. They need a roster overhaul.
Having played against DJ, I'm not sure how Norvell thought that was his solution and has turned out to be a major part of his downfall.
 
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18IsTheMan

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It's crazy Norvell is in his 5th season and doesn't have a quarterback.
Yep. That's the kiss of death.

The best QB he has had was brought in by the previous coach. And that QB was almost singularly responsible for FSU's success the previous 2 seasons.

Norvell's talent evaluation has proved to be questionable, at best.
 

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True. Most players jumping in the portal are looking to upgrade their program. Right now, FSU is not an upgrade over anyone. They certainly won't command any top transfers from the FBS level. They could likely lure some top FCS transfers, but you're not rebuilding your program that way.

But back to my point in the post above, FSU is in the position they are in because Norvell has shunned high school recruiting in favor of the portal. And, the very best player they got via transfer, transferred in under the previous head coach.

Norvell's biggest portal move was bringing in DJ and that gave absolutely disastrous results. Predictably disastrous.

As it stands, FSU is not just one or two key players away. They need a roster ov

Hasnt Deon at Colorado done the same? They are like 6-2 this year. It looks like heavy portal using teams will be hit or miss each year.
 

18IsTheMan

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Hasnt Deon at Colorado done the same? They are like 6-2 this year. It looks like heavy portal using teams will be hit or miss each year.

Let's see how Deion does after Shedeur is gone. It's his great fortune that his son is a very good college QB.
 

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