FSU had a mass exodus of players enter the transfer portal from last years team. One of them was former five-star wide receiver Hykeem Williams, who transferred to Colorado after the spring semester.
Williams has only been in Boulder a few weeks, but is already comparing what FSU did to the short window of experience at Colorado. He seems to think what they do is better than FSU, according to the video below:
From a player's mouth...I always felt like FSU strength and conditioning was lacking. Too many players look slow, play slow, and are undersized. We wonder why so many stay banged up in season. The ease it on up program smh pic.twitter.com/ErCCVuLnSq
— Noles / 2024 Bye Year 🍢 (@therealzandale) June 12, 2025
Here's the thing. The Director of the FSU Strength and Conditioning program, Josh Storms, nearly every credential possible and is well respected in the industry. It's common knowledge that Hykeem Williams came from a high school that doesn't have the best reputation for developing talent on the field, nor in the weight room. It's one of the reasons he showed up at FSU looking like a tight end and had to spend the first few weeks conditioning to lose the weight.
I wonder who helped him do that so he could appear in the first game of the season against LSU as a freshman? It was the FSU strength and conditioning staff working in tandem with the nutrition staff. Credit to Williams for working to lose the weight, but how great a strength and conditioning program is largely depends on how motivated the players are to do the work.
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There's only so many ways to lift that differ from what everyone else is doing across the nation. It's almost like he's blaming the FSU staff for the inability to stay healthy and live up to the expectations of his five-star ranking out of high school.
Maybe it's FSU coaches not necessarily fighting to keep him from entering the transfer portal made him feel a certain way? When you constantly challenge a player and there is no response? What's the use? Nevertheless, his willingness to make these comments and attitude seem to be prime example of why he's where's he's at.