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FSU football: 3 things we learned from 2020 season

By Kelvin Hunt

TALLAHASSEE, FL - JUNE 13: A general view of the Unconquered Statue before a unity walk on June 13, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State players and members of the football coaching staff led fans and supporters on a unity walk from the Doak Campbell Stadium on the Florida State University campus to the state capitol building in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests erupted across the nation after George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images)
TALLAHASSEE, FL - JUNE 13: A general view of the Unconquered Statue before a unity walk on June 13, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida State players and members of the football coaching staff led fans and supporters on a unity walk from the Doak Campbell Stadium on the Florida State University campus to the state capitol building in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protests erupted across the nation after George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images) /
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The Program Wasn’t As Talented As Thought

It’s FSU football, so they have more talent than most programs in the nation. That was the sentiment for most FSU fan and those that don’t pay close attention to the program.

If you go to Seminole.com now, there are only 31 players on the roster who were considered blue-chip recruits out of high school.

The crazy part is, 11 of those players didn’t play at all or were used sparingly in the 2020 season.

The roster got this way because of a of lack player development under Jimbo Fisher, and poor recruiting and continued lack of development during the Willie Taggart era.

There were 10 of the 21 players taken in the 2018 recruiting class who are no longer with the program before the season started.

Two more players have since departed, and another two will likely never be contributors while they are on the roster.

There’s a reason FSU offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham said it wasn’t a youth movement. It simply was the younger players on the roster were the best options for the most part.

The good news is a lot of those young players received some valuable game reps later in the season.

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