FSU football: How high can 2023 recruiting class finish?

FSU HS Recruiting

I don’t want to count the 2020 and 2021 recruiting classes for Mike Norvell. The 2020 class was a transition class, and 2021 saw over half of that recruiting cycle restricted because of the COVID pandemic.

I don’t care what anyone says because that was the perfect storm of hell for new staff to encounter their first two years.

Nevertheless, the 2020 class had a 28 percent blue-chip ratio(7 of 25), and we’ve seen nearly half of those players exit the program without contributing.

The 2021 class had a 44 percent blue-chip ratio (7 of 16), and the 2022 class had a 35 percent blue-chip ratio (6 of 17). Right away, you can see the change in approach by taking fewer high school players and going more of the transfer portal route.

FSU coaches decided against taking 17 high school players between those two recruiting classes and took players from the transfer portal.

Those transfer portal players included the likes of Trey Benson, D’Mitri Emmanuel, Jared Verse, Tatum Bethune, Greedy Vance, Johnny Wilson, Mycah Pittman, Dillan Gibbons, Jermaine Johnson, Keir Thomas, and Jammie Robinson.

All but three of those had more than one year of eligibility left when they enrolled with FSU football. I can assure you FSU would not gotten nine All-ACC performers from the 17 high school guys they could have taken.