FSU football: Are elite facilities that important in recruiting?
By Kelvin Hunt
Who Has The Best Facilities?
247Sports released their annual best facilities ranking a few days ago, and there were some surprises on the list of top 25.
FSU football was nowhere on the list, but several schools are who you wouldn’t expect.
Places like South Carolina(No. 5), Northwestern (No. 8), Illinois (No. 13), North Carolina (No. 17), TCU (No. 20), Arkansas (No. 23), and Texas Tech (No. 24).
Of course, rankings are subjective, and Florida(No. 21) was the only school of the Big 3 on the list.
It wasn’t surprising to see Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, LSU, Oregon, and others among the best.
The thing that separates those schools from the others I listed before? Players know they can go to those schools and compete for titles. Players want to go where they can win, bottom line, and that’s not going to consistently happen at places like South Carolina, Northwestern, and Illinois.
Those three programs finished behind FSU football in the 247 Composite Rankings in 2021. Part of that is geography and not having access to the amount of talent FSU does, but the other part is players know there’s ceiling they will never breakthrough at those schools.