FSU football: Explaining 'Noles recruiting strategy and ranking

FSU football: Explaining ‘Noles recruiting strategy and ranking

By Kelvin Hunt | Dec 21, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, FL - AUGUST 11: Head coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Seminoles speaks during a collegiate athletics roundtable about fall sports at the Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Facility on the campus of Florida State University on August 11, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images) /

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Elite Recruit Status

When the product on the field is as bad as FSU football has been, it doesn’t matter who the head coach is when it comes to elite recruits. Elite recruits, in general, don’t want to come to play somewhere that seems to be trending backward.

We saw that with Willie Taggart after the 2018 Virginia Tech game and continued with Taggart’s 2019 recruiting class.

The Noles have signed five top 100 players in the last three recruiting cycles, with three of those coming in the 2018 class.

Why would anyone expect that trend to reverse in the 2021 recruiting class? Not to mention it was a year with a new staff that couldn’t host recruits like normal.

FSU sent offers out to elite players and have been in the top five for countless elite players, but it goes back to the program appearing to be trending backward.

Those recruits have to see some type of progress to give the Noles a chance, and Mike Norvell is looking to show that progress.

How is Mike Norvell going to show progress in the program?

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