One part of being successful for FSU football is having players do the work in the classroom. It looks like that happened this spring semester.
One thing FSU football did under Willie Taggart was experience improvement off the field with players improving their grades and going to class.
It looks as though that’s continuing in the Mike Norvell era as the team posted a record 3.127 GPA in the spring semester.
Several players took to social media to post their GPA’s to show the hard work they’ve put it.
It’s also a way to show this new coaching staff is serious about players being student’s first and finding success after football is over.
3.3 GPA for my first college semester 🍢💪🏽
— BIG COUNTRY🤠 (@joshgriffis_) May 6, 2020
Finished with a 3.75 📚
— Wyatt Rector (@WyattRector) May 6, 2020
Decided for my final spring semester to challenge myself and take 6 classes(18 units) and earned a 3.58GPA. The highest GPA I’ve received in my 4 years of college. It’s about how you finish. #keepCLIMBing
— Jay Williams (@KvngJayWill) May 6, 2020
Finished this semester with a 3.75 GPA... 🙊 #KEEPCLIMBING ✍🏾 BIGGER THAN FOOTBALL!!
— Jaleel McRae (@JaleelMcrae) May 6, 2020
Finished the semester with a 3.4 GPA 🙏🏾📚
— Jashaun Corbin (@Jashaun06) May 7, 2020
Finished my first college semester with a 3.5 gpa ✊🏻🍢
— Tate (@TateRodemaker) May 6, 2020
3.5😉
— AMARI FERRARI 🏎💨 (@AmariGainer) May 7, 2020
Finished the semester wit a 3.6📚🍢
— DJ Matthews (@2nineee) May 7, 2020
Finished with a 3.59 📚
— The Problem ‼️ (@JaidenWoodbey) May 6, 2020
(With 19 units 🤯)
Thoughts
The coaching staff and players have to control what they can control right now. They can’t practice together, but one thing they all can control is the work they put in the classroom. It’s a great way to find a positive trending in the right direction under a new coaching staff in uncertain times.
I’m sure more players posted their GPA’s on social media, but the ones I did find are a solid mix of older and newer players which suggests overall buy-in into the vision of Mike Norvell and staff.
This is positive news the staff can use in recruiting with parents in terms of how serious the program is about the success of the players on the roster. While they can’t sell progress on the field, one thing they can do is show progress in other important areas like academics.
Another reason this is huge is because of FSU’s low APR score that needs to keep improving from the mess Jimbo Fisher created.
I talked about all the positives from April in my observations with Mike Norvell piece a few days ago. It looks like May already has an early candidate to be featured later this month regarding academics.
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