FSU football: Did Mike Norvell send a shot to other schools about recruiting transfers?

FSU football has threaded the needle between high school and transfer portal recruiting over the past few recruiting cycles. There's still a belief that programs can only be built using high school recruiting, but FSU has disproved that notion with its product on the field over the past three seasons. How? Look at the on-field record:

• 2020: 3-6
• 2021: 5-7
• 2022: 10-3
• 2023: 13-0(not counting Orange Bowl exhibition)

Mike Norvell took this program from rock bottom in 2020 to in the position to compete for a National Title in 2023 before getting snubbed by the College Football Invitational Committee. One of the things fans hear the most from rival fans is that FSU's success isn't sustainable because they don't solely rely on high school recruiting. Some rival coaches try to use that narrative to negatively recruit FSU with their pitch on high school recruits. Mike Norvell addressed that narrative in Monday's press conference:

I thought this response was spot on. Recruiting is recruiting, and rival teams have used the transfer portal just as much. However, they haven't experienced the same success as FSU. FSU was arguably the first to embrace the portal fully, and they have a track record of success that attracts other top players who enter the portal. FSU can point to Jermaine Johnson, Jammie Robinson, Jared Verse, Jarrian Jones, Fabien Lovett, Johnny Wilson, Keon Coleman, and Jaheim Bell as players who have been drafted or will get drafted next month. However, it goes back to the staff's ability to evaluate players on and off the field and get them to buy into what FSU's program is all about. It's why you see Johnson, Verse, Jones, and others returning to FSU to help recruit other players. Mike Norvell says it all the time, his players are his best recruiters. It's too bad other programs haven't figured out how that works.