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FSU football: 6 takeaways from Mike Norvell’s third year in Tallahassee

By Kelvin Hunt

LOUISVILLE, KY - SEPTEMBER 16: Head coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Seminoles is seen during the first half against the Louisville Cardinals at Cardinal Stadium on September 16, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)
LOUISVILLE, KY - SEPTEMBER 16: Head coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Seminoles is seen during the first half against the Louisville Cardinals at Cardinal Stadium on September 16, 2022 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images) /
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High School Recruiting Is Improving

I wrote about the past two recruiting classes here in the last week. The strategy to thread the needle between talented but realistic high schoolers and the transfer portal has worked to near perfection for Mike Norvell.

FSU isn’t finishing with the top 10 recruiting classes because they are taking smaller high school classes, and recruiting sites have not figured out how to properly rank transfer portal players into the overall rankings.

However, when we look at the per-player average for high school players, it’s gotten better every season with Mike Norvell. This 2023 recruiting class is at its highest per-player average, 89.95.

The 2020 recruiting class, a transition class, had a per-player average of 87.96. FSU already has more than double the amount of 2024 commits than they had this time last year with 2023. Also, the per-player average for those players is 90.67.

The 2024 recruiting class will be the first that Mike Norvell and staff can sell after a 10-win season, and beating Miami and Florida. The FSU football product can finally sell itself, and that should pay of in spades for 2024 high school recruiting.

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