FSU football: Making sense of Amarius Mims transfer portal recruitment

Takeaways

I’ve said several times that FSU benefitted from Mims not being able to transfer to another SEC school without receiving a waiver.

Otherwise, he would have had to sit out for a year. If Mims didn’t require that waiver, it’s unlikely FSU would have been in the mix anyway. However, one thing to take away is FSU at least tried to get a player the caliber of Amarius Mims.

I know some people are trolling, talking they are glad they didn’t donate money to Rising Spear. However, that line of thinking is why FSU doesn’t have the booster support it should have, with only 2-3 percent of the alumni supporting the booster organization. I thought the rollout for Rising Spear during the Spring Game Week festivities was well done, and it is clear FSU wants to play big boy football.

However, it’s going to take resources they don’t have just yet to do it. It’s also going to take more wins on the football field. Amarius Mims enrolling at FSU would have helped tremendously, but the expectation was the Noles would win about seven games without him. I think most would say 8-4 is attainable if you could guarantee good injury luck at QB.

The coaching staff has this program going in the right direction. There will be other transfer portal targets. They’ve gotten some key players from the transfer portal like Jared Verse and Tatum Bethune, two players a lot of Power 5 programs wanted to sign.

However, when it comes to the upper-tier players, it doesn’t matter who’s on the coaching staff because when programs like Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio State want a player? They have the resources to get him. FSU didn’t lose Mims to Miami or some other school. They just lost him to UGA, again if he officially takes himself out of the portal, and UGA beats everyone for players, even Alabama.