FSU Football: Impact of players leaving FSU football program

The short term impacts

Let’s not be rash of the impacts that will be felt by losing the likes of these three players in the middle of the season that has already been marred by a pandemic and civil unrest leading into an election year.

As much as some people don’t like to see it, the three student-athletes that we will never see again in a Florida State uniform were extremely valuable to our team. What we lose from them being gone will be immediately impactful.

Leadership is a quality only possessed by a few who incite mentorship and respect from others. Two of FSU’s largest leaders on this team, whether playing or not, were represented by James Blackman and Marvin Wilson.

To the naked eye, you might not see it. But the guys on that field and in that locker room got to experience it every day. Both of these young men were respected by their team equally by showing maturity in times of adversity and speaking up for what is right.

There’s another type of leadership that is talked less about when it comes to a student-athlete, the teacher. Tamorrion Terry exemplified this.

Terry was not always the vocal type of leader but did the man not teach his fellow teammates a thing or two about caring what was about to happen between the sidelines every Saturday. When you attended a game, you knew Terry would at least do everything he could to keep his team in the game; Whether that meant blocking for a running back who bounced it outside or catching the game-winning touchdown pass vs. Boston College.

The attributes that these men possess have yet to be seen from the guys in the locker room. I’m sure as time moves on, we will start to see glimpses of players filling these rolls, but for the immediate future, it will be difficult for the young men to find out who the voice is in that locker room outside of their coaches. But once they do, look out, things could change in an instant.