Why do players choose fsu?

having FAMU across the street helps them tremendously

 

It's money 100%.

They, under Norvell, have not been getting who they want. They have been getting who they can afford, and is why they are finishing ranked 15 to 25, which they are on track for this year again. They are currently 9 with a large class, but all of Bama, Michigan, Texas, LSU, Florida, Tennessee, Oregon, and Oklahoma, who are ranked below them will finish ahead of them.

They couldn't pull their top prospects, so they went on a spending spree of plan B's and inflated their ranking.

The schools with more money are going to be getting the higher rated holdouts who want more money and flipping those who become great players this year from the lower ranked schools who have less money. It's too early to see where FSU's class lands, but it won't be great, and is far below what it would have been in the old pre-NIL era, regardless of having a toxic coach.

 

You dodged a bullet there, man.

 

Yeah me too. As a 13 year old I was living at Tyndall AFB in Panama City and had mustard & ketchup colored pendants and stuff on the walls of my bedroom. It didn’t hurt that this tall lanky dude named Fred Biletnikoff was catching passes for the semis back then. Fortunately my dad retired from the USAF and moved the family to Ft. Lauderdale and that broke the panhandle connection with SWAC.
From there I became a Gator.

(trivia question - without googling it, can anybody name the QB who threw to Biletnikoff?)