FSU Football: 3 reasons to have patience with Coach Mike Norvell

Realistic Expectations

With everything from the off-season in mind, this year has become vital for developing talent and selling something.

In a normal year, with a spring and a summer offseason regiment, the team can camp and see what part of the playbook should be used and see who they need to add to the program.

With this youth movement, the coaching staff has to tell the portal recruits that they can play on day 1. It has to let the high school recruits know they can play on day one. “Do you want to be apart of the CLIMB?” has to be the thing you ask them every week.

Most of the errors on defense have come from youth. Missed angles, bad reads, and poor discipline have plagued this team for the past three years, and even though the freshmen still are guilty of this, there is more potential to fix those problems with the youth.

The coaching staff seems to be weeding out the dead weight on the roster that was left for them and letting people who don’t want to build with them leave. When we look back to Isaiah Bolden and Cyrus Fagan types leaving the program, they were blue-chips that weren’t developed properly and became non-contributors. This staff is looking to raise the floor of the program with players that can be developed.

They are leaving no stone unturned, fighting for prospects at the high school, junior college, and transfer portal ranks to install new talent for this rebuild.