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FSU football: Is 2021 recruiting class better than Fisher’s 2010 class?

By Kelvin Hunt

In a photo illustration composed of two images, the stadium seats of Doak Campbell Stadium are empty during a Florida State football game. There is a possibility that this is what the football season could look like.Doak Empty Illustration
In a photo illustration composed of two images, the stadium seats of Doak Campbell Stadium are empty during a Florida State football game. There is a possibility that this is what the football season could look like.Doak Empty Illustration /
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FSU football has nearly completed its 2021 recruiting class with the addition of Destyn Hill on National Signing Day.

FSU head coach Mike Norvell indicated there could be a couple of players added to the class later, but for all intents and purposes, we’re going to go with what we have.

All year long, we heard from a select group of folks about how FSU football wasn’t recruiting well under Mike Norvell. Why was FSU not getting elite players like Clemson, Alabama, and Ohio State?

Why wasn’t FSU recruiting like they did when Jimbo Fisher became the head coach? Well, there are a lot of factors at play.

Jimbo Fisher had been at FSU for years as the offensive coordinator and already knew what the needs were in the program.

FSU wasn’t coming off three consecutive losing seasons, and Jimbo Fisher didn’t have to recruit during a pandemic for a nine months after getting hired as the head coach.

Jimbo Fisher’s inaugural recruiting class in 2010 finished No. 8 in the nation and landed some players that went on to become the foundation of one of the best stretches in FSU history.

There were 24 players signed, with 22 players enrolling, with a per player average of .8920. Of course, there was no transfer portal back then, so things are not exactly apples to apples comparison to now.

Mike Norvell’s 2021 class was his first complete recruiting class that consists of 24 signees. The rankings only factor high school players, which consists of 17 players with a per player average of 88.54.

We have the benefit of hindsight with Fisher’s class, so knowing what we know and where the 2021 players are ranked? Could Mike Norvell’s first full class ranked No. 22 be better than Jimbo Fisher’s class that finished No. 8 in the nation?

I want to compare the two classes as best we can be considering both are full-year one classes for each coach.

Let’s see what we can discover, folks!

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