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FSU Recruiting: Willie Taggart taking page from Clemson’s strategy?

By Kelvin Hunt

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 01: A Florida State Seminoles cheerleader runs with a flag on the field during the College Football Playoff Semifinal against the Oregon Ducks at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2015 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 01: A Florida State Seminoles cheerleader runs with a flag on the field during the College Football Playoff Semifinal against the Oregon Ducks at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2015 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images) /
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FSU’s Last Four Recruiting Cycles

The former regime finished with the highest recruiting class in the country the past three of four years. FSU recruiting finished No. 3, No. 3, No. 6 and No. 11(Taggart) in the nation.

Let’s take a look at the players the old regime signed(minus the 2018 class Taggart salvaged):

  • 2015:  20 recruits (14 of 20) 70 percent blue chip
  • 2016:  26 recruits (16 of 26) 61.5 percent blue chip (two players didn’t qualify)
  • 2017:  24 recruits (12 of 24) 50 percent blue chip

Which trend do you notice? The old regime was finishing with highly ranked classes, but it was due to the number of recruits taken more so than the number of blue chip players.

Check that ratio of blue chip players going down each year under the old regime. That’s a pretty dramatic drop right?

I think this is something Willie Taggart has identified to improve moving forward. FSU could have taken a couple of more recruits in the 2018 class but finished with 21.

Taggart was able to get that blue chip ratio back to 62 percent and will need to keep that ratio high to compete with the other elite programs in the country.

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