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What is going on everybody I’m Aon HUD of Andy that is the man of the hour for the next five hours seven hours I don’t know what you signed up for Michael but buckle on up he’s Michael angen recruiting analyst for war . this is the Walk-Ons Signing Day live here on

Warchant TV and warchant.com our great friends over at Walk-Ons Walk-Ons for the win y’all might want to grab your dinner there your lunch there it’s great man go there it’s it’s phenomenal I’ve been there twice uh you know recently and it’s phenomenal guys go there I was

Gonna tell you I was gonna guys give you the the testimonial but Michael Lang just did the testimonial because he’s feeling the energy he’s feeling the Good Vibes we appreciate you all being here hit the thumbs up if you think we earn it at some point just ping the video out

There let everybody know that we’re out here hanging out 8 in the morning and all the way up until the Jeff Cameron show starts at one o’clock he and Tom Lang will then take things over Tom will be hopping on here driving the show as

Well we got Matt L back there we got Ben Spicer the brainchild some might say of the wildly popular coach series spiceman that’s what I call him that’s what Michael calls him he’s awesome uh if you don’t know already there’s a Signing Day special over warchant.com I think it’s

Still active and going up uh $54.99 for an entire year of Premium access to warchant.com oh look at that I didn’t have to even hit anything because Ben Spicer aka the spiceman on the ones and twos $ 54.99 for an entire year listen these situations are fluid but a lot of

This information was probably Available to You courtesy of Matt ler and Michael langen over at the premium recruiting board but we’re going to land This Plane together join warchant.com again unlimited access for only our website but also all the websites on the on3 network you can go read Miami when they

Don’t get Jeremiah Smith and see how they feel in Florida when they realize that they’re suck with Billy Napier for another year so enjoy all of that Michael I’m gonna stop talking now um has anything changed since you and I spoke at like 10 o’clock last night when

It comes to some of these higher end five star guys I guess KJ B and Jeremiah Smith probably the two names at the front of everybody’s mind I think with KJ everything’s kind of it was the same I haven’t heard anything different uh I I feel still the same way that you know

My prediction would would stay the same that I think it’s going to be I think he sticks with FSU now Jer May Smith there’s been a little you know small little shift as far I here as far as confidence with with FSU uh you know so

Uh as I put in uh last night when we did our predictions I leaned more towards Ohio State because of just that latest Intel I got that you know there wasn’t quite as much uh confidence uh in that but at the same time that’s still fluid uh you know but as I

As I did that last night that’s kind of my feelings at that time was you know I would lean a little more towards Ohio State and that’s why I decided to you know slide with them but um I know that thing’s ongoing it’s fluid he announces

At noon today um or signs at noon or whatever you want to call it so that’s still fluid so trust me if I get I’m I’m expected to get hopefully some inel around 99 or 10:00 a.m. U leading up to that decision kind of give you more

Solidified stuff but that’s what I have as of last night on on those two big ones yeah we mentioned it when we spoke last night I know he’s been like a candidate he’s been on flip watch or flip alert but like you really can’t say that Florida State lost him because he’s

Never been committed to Florida State but again the fact that they’ve made such a push has just been so enticing because he is such a highlevel prospect but I guess people probably need to keep that in mind as we process what could happen in new yeah absolutely absolutely

You know and we’ve had several uh big signings already uh this morning I I don’t know if the total is up to I think maybe five um or whatnot uh I could be could be four but obviously the big one everyone was stressing about was just Charles Lester signed with FSU um he’s

In there uh I think a lot of people got nervous when Charles put up a a tweet saying hey I’m GNA do it on the 22nd um immediately I checked on that just to make sure there was nothing to good everything was good with FSU they weren’t worried uh and concerned and and

Then a few maybe a minute later you know Lester uh sent in his his Loi or whatnot so um you know that that had people having Travis Hunter Vibes all over again but I was I wasn’t really that concerned with this one from the start it didn’t feel like that the

Relationship was different with FSU with Lester compared to you know what they had to deal with with Hunter where Hunter wasn’t talking to them you know there was constant communication and there was con and and too Lester was on campus for a week after his his uh State

Title game um so I think I wasn’t really that concerned overly concerned even when that tweet went out I wasn’t that concerned but I still checked on it but still pretty big and significant kind of maybe it puts a solidify on just uh those Dion Vibes of you know Dion’s

Going to do it again um so uh certainly a big signing uh adding adding Charles and then um as you’re pointing out on on the screen there fourstar wide receiver Elijah Moore also you know signed his LOL and turned it in so another big one

I think is going to help them a lot at the receiver position and I said it before don’t don’t be surprised if you see you know Charles maybe end up at receiver because that’s a place he’s very natural at so I mean that’s not inconceivable of of happening you know

Throughout his career I mean he’s very natural as a receiver so overall Charles credible athlete Elijah another credible athlete Micah Dany also signed this morning Speedster out of H Florida High that that’s just got incredible he’ll add a lot to fsu’s football program and the track team I think Jaden Todd was

The first signing of of the day and so it’s uh we’re rolling we’re rolling Adon that is correct uh the full list again Jaden Todd Jake Weinberg okay kicker extraord yes Micah Dany Elijah Moore and Charles ler as noted there on your screen they’re all in there Matt ler Tom Lang

Helping us out letting us know what’s going on with that um next up it looks like lene McCoy perhaps at any minute now yeah uh Kai Bates 8:30 BJ Gibson jamori flag Jamari Howard all at 9:00 am uh any potential surprises there Michael do you feel pretty good about uh that

Quartet McCoy Bates Gibson flag and shoot let’s make it five guys and let’s also throw in Jamari Howard N should be pretty smooth should be everything should be pretty smooth and good to go and um I think really it’s just uh that 10: a.m. spot is where where we’re eyeing some

Things because you got LJ McCrae but uh I think between now and uh 9:00 am I think it should be uh you know business as usual all right LJ McCrae is it is it a Florida Florida State race mik who do you think it is at this late hour that it’s going

To be between for that fstar standout from Daytona Beach Mainland well I think it’s all three Florida state Florida and Auburn Auburn’s made a strong push uh overall he he likes the staff over there he visited Auburn and FSU you know those were his last two visits to my knowledge

I don’t know if he went over there to Florida but I I was told that Auburn and Florida State you know we we certainly reported uh after his State title game that he went to see FSU visited there and then and then and then after that he

Followed that up with an Auburn visit so all three of those I think are are certainly in play um I don’t change what I said last night that I feel like he’s going to stick with Florida it’s just like that’s the feeling that’s the constant there’s more confidence with

That um than anything so you lean with what you’re hearing and as far as consistent you know Vibes and that’s that’s kind of how I’m feeling but it’s like you can’t just lock it in either you know you don’t know you know there’s a possibility that you know guys

Wake up and they might have a change of heart and like you know what I don’t know about that like coaches might not be there you know or St you know just something where where it turns them so certainly one we’ll keep an eye on you know throughout the

Morning listen I’m I’m kind of a cynical guy I think we’ve noted that many times on all the different programming across the Great platforms here on warchant.com hit the Thumbs Up Everybody vidus Vitus 33 said I rewatched KJ post visit interview from Sunday body language says he’s

Gone now Hey listen I don’t know I don’t know it’s gonna happen here like I I never would feel comfortable being in Mississippi for four years and I think Hugh frees being there for three I would never feel comfortable about a kid in SEC country spurning an offer to go play

For Hugh freeze at an SEC program when they were probably promising that kid the world but there’s nothing from that post visit interview I thought was like totally bizarre like everybody else like Aon are you crazy like you can tell I’m I’m not telling you folks to buy KJ Bowl

In the Florida state stock right now but I would not put the way he reacted after that interview uh as part of my you know evidence I would lay out before the jury here on this Michael no I’d say here’s the thing I’d say on that vi just I

Would say his decision wasn’t final that’s the body language I got like I was looking for something like hey I’m shutting down I’m going to FSU I’m signing there Wednesday done forget it that’s where I’m I’m going I know I want to be here the body language is given off like he’s

Not like whether he hasn’t called the coaches for other schools or even you know made a final decision of of hey is it for sure going to be FSU that’s the only thing I read in there and I’ve been reading these guys forever and even that’s not a given um but that’s the

Take I had um I think that’s take of of most people that were around it that it’s not totally finished but I didn’t get a sense that oh he’s gone he’s history he’s peace out like I mean I I didn’t get that at all you know not to

That level but I did get the sense that hey my thing’s not totally finished he used just be trauma boy now he’s Mr trauma boy our guys all groans up throw 10 bucks in the jar too thank you Mr trauma boy says he appreciates you guys he appreciates Mike langon

Michael Matt ler have not probably slept more than I don’t know like three hours consecutively in the last three weeks so we thank those guys for being here Michael pulling his shefy right now checking his phone out keeping you guys updated Michael is there any chance a a

Portal guy could crash the party today or do you think there’s Lanes to this and there’s probably communication with guys like hey like we want you you want to be here all right how about you wait until Thursday to announce or could you potentially see like some portal guys

Maybe uh announcing they want to come play football here for Mike norell and Tallahassee I mean it’s possible I mean I’ve heard anything per se that it’s it’s expected like today um you know Portal’s kind of different because there’s not a lead into like hey I’m

Deciding at so and so time it’s usually just they don’t make any announcement or pre-announcement like hey decision coming up is kind of like they just po so yeah it’s conceivably possible I probably lean towards what you just said Aon that you know they wait until this

Day is over and then bam they’ll go like you know maybe tomorrow or something if if you’re that that’s just my perception on it U but you never know it’s a possibility I mean it’s not impossible yeah um I will I will I will I will save on the horn for only

Commitments it is it is signing day so we’re getting a little too excited I got like the sun coming through hitting my camera looks like I’m like on the moon right now Sun surface uh I’m not trying to be an Instagram influencer with my filter game everybody I promise you um we’ll

Work through it here listen can we just call him just just spell DJ everybody we know DJ would be DJ oui angal we don’t have to make fun of the kid’s last name coming from a guy named HUD Vandy you know when my kid’s gonna be getting

Recruited if I ever have a child which probably will never happen and you guys come on the live chat and you’re like is that is that Junior HUD barar coming to Tallahassee or not I wouldn’t appreciate it but n d77 wondering any word on when cam Ward or DJ ouie angal would be

Announcing we talked about this last I mean end of this week is that asking for too much Michael or is that a possibility that’s a possibility I was told you know either this week or in the next week or so you know that’s what I was told not I don’t think it goes

Beyond Christmas personally in my opinion I think it’ll be before that um so obviously today’s the 20th so that’s not too long you know so that’s not I don’t think it’s too long as far as um you know Ward goes um but uh uh DJ I

Don’t know for sure um that’s kind of dependent upon how this how this shakes out but um I I could see it before Christmas that’s the safest way I can do it I mean I I was always told like within this week or or the following week that’s kind of what I’m

Expecting uh Jeffrey Bell welcome to the terror Dome anybody sign yet uh yes there have been signning so far Jaden Todd Jake Weinberg Micah Dany Elijah Moore Charles Lester II other than Lester which somebody had a nice comment in there is he gonna troll us like Travis Hunter with his Amazon Prime

Registry which I thought was funny he’s not he’s signed he’s locked and loaded ready to go yeah um who else you know I know I know you want to walk us through let’s just I guess walk through all these as we wait for some other signs to

Kind of come across what is Florida state getting in a guy like Jayden Todd a three star offensive lineman Michael yeah very athletic uh Long Reach a guy that that worked out at camp that uh I didn’t originally think when they first started that there would be a push but

They they worked him out like said what he worked him out they were like man this kid just gets off the line so quick we love what he does he Lov his technique he just fits everything we’re looking for peach Stak kid I I believe

Um I’m not mistaken but um a guy that just uh you know fit everything they want in in offensive lineman as far as whether you could you can move around at different places kind of a guy that does you know similar stuff to darish Washington come out of high school you

Know could play a few different places um but uh one they fell in love with uh once he camped I think once he camped it was kind of a lock that fhu was going to go and make a push and and go all the

Way and go all in so I would say early in the spring it was really just um you know the guy we’ heard was Jonathan Daniels uh who by the way you know s sign and probably let’s say this morning keep keep in mind they’re you know behind us

A little bit uh with time over there in Pensacola um so probably uh he signs like you know probably the at the uh I would say the 8 n o’ hour but um but either way uh Jaden’s a great addition to have I mean that’s a great addition

They push for and they wanted and got him on campus multiple times and they just uh really coveted him uh as we watch the uh maaya Dany highlights which is pretty ridiculous you see kind of the speed uh what I’ve talked about a lot of uh Lawrence to Philly fibes when you

Watch his game you know just a lot of stuff just but uh even faster than what what you’ve seen at to Philly now there’s going to be some obviously some growth with you know him getting bigger uh that’s going to be something that you know he’ll have to do when he gets to

The college ranks but man get this guy in space and he’s uh ridiculously with his speed so uh lot to be excited about with when Maka Dany how about Elijah Moore in this day and age can you be under I don’t want to say underrated because everybody can be underrated but

Just maybe underappreciated for just how talented he could possibly for Flor say from the jump yeah uh number one player in Maryland uh this year really good receiver uh came uh to the SEMO showcase put on a show he’s a guy that early on we felt like Ohio state was probably

Gonna be able to pull him and then FSU came in there got him on visit soon as FSU got him on for a visit um he just uh Elijah just fell in love with everything um eventually committed to fhu they knocked it out and then today got

Him signed and I think this is important probably one of the most important you know signings in my opinion um just overall because they don’t have a lot of guys like him that are 6’4 you know or that you can run across the middle consistently can use that and I think he

Brings a lot to that certainly that offense uh so that’s a big deal and um you know G adding him to this class I think I think sometimes Aon these all these guys that are already being committed you know I think they get overlooked of the ones that we’re

Stressing and going through of hey they’re going to stick or not stick I think people forget the type of talent that they have overall in this class and and Elijah Moore is a great representative of that I think he’s a phenomenal talent and I think he’s a guy

That I could see playing pretty early because like I said they don’t have a lot of guys that you know fit his mold that that they use you know there’s certainly guys Young wise on there but uh as far as high school kids they’re bringing in uh they don’t have have a

Lot of those guys so adding a guy like MO is a a massive massive signing for FSU they got so many screen options I can’t even get us back home here but uh Michael doesn’t do this all by himself he’s got plenty of help we don’t do it

All by ourselves on warchant.com he also helps out with Team coverage Matt lasair are uh are are our pulse with the youth some might say our pulse let’s bring him on here and uh get his thoughts on some of the players that are out there right now Matt joining us from Suburban Dallas

Yep yep look at that man that’s a backdrop is that chefy’s house actually is he I wish I wish I took over my dad’s office for the day Matt what I guess you know what Prospect I mean I’m gonna make you pick one what are you most excited

To hear from today is it a jeremi Smith is it a KJ Balden is it is it somebody else which one kid here are you most looking forward to hearing making their decision on signing day uh I think obviously Jeremiah Smith because we’ve gotten this far with FSU having so so

Much momentum whether it works out or not I’m just excited to see where it goes and it’s been a fun ride to kind of follow him going from I mean I haven’t talked to him in Gainesville so we’ve talked to him everywhere out even not in Tallahasse what did you see from him

During the state championship game that anything I guess seeing him like on the field Live In Action anything like that stand out to you and change your mind on maybe just or make you believe this is the reason why he is so highly ranked uh uh so I sat down

And then two minutes into the game he scored just to start off with that so he’s he’s pretty good also he was wearing FSU gloves for that game for those who forgot um but yeah that uh that whole team shamad is dirty dirty dirty he was Jeremiah Was open all day

They’re using him on uh bubble screens too which uh news flash FSU loves to do also so it’s uh it was really fun to watch the game was over by half I think it was what like was it 42 points like 42 nothing at half something like that

Yeah it 42 nothing that’s a kind of normal game for Shaman they pretty much kill everybody uh with with their talent um Jeremiah I could tell I I looked over to the shaman coaches and he kind of just almost winked at me like Hey we’re about to unleash it and you know four

Straight passes to Jeremiah bam he was gone 60 yards on like maybe the third or fourth time but um yeah Jeremiah’s an Elite Talent a different Talent that’s why he’s the number one player in the country uh he does things that nobody else can do you shouldn’t move that way

The way he moves at at at two over 200 pounds and 6’4 I mean the guy is just a ridiculous guy a ridiculous Talent of of of Skilling which is why certainly FSU covets him so much um but um yeah he’s just special Asen uh shout out to our

Guy Z Chan he should be your dentist if he’s not already dollar dollar bills y’all we’re going to save those air horns for the commitment thanks Z Chan TR 2024 or let’s keep climbing 20 bucks 24 see the 2024 thing all there in play it is signing day but we also have

Hearts and live in the real world and um have a bowl game to play on the 30th that maybe night’s all that stoked about Florida man in Texas says it would be nice if every s released a statement saying something to the effect of screw the college football screw college

Football I’m going to FSU to win a championship I think cfp is what we meant um but we get the gist of it thank you Florida man in Texas we’ll give you a little background soundtrack dollar dollar bills y’all um KJ Balin so Matt you you distill everything you’re

Consuming all media all times um what did you take away you’re not our Irish oel body reader extraordinaire but like his visit the way he handled the interview which I guess like if if people don’t realize it seems like that was like a second interview like he already spoke to everybody and then

Maybe left and then came back and I don’t know just what are your thoughts right now on KJ bowl and where do you think Florida State sits for this highly coveted Prospect out of Buford I mean I think Florida State’s fine I what I’ve been saying the whole time is that he

Goes so he’ll go other places he loves all these visits like he loves to play the game and go through the process but whenever he came back to Florida State it seemed like he had a different feeling I guess than the rest like it just kind of every time he came back he

It confirmed okay I want to stay at Florida State I would go to Georgia for the games I’d watch the games at that point he said he’s uh wasn’t talking to the coaches when he was just going to games it seems like that has changed but

I still like FSU where they are yeah I don’t think the interview was great it was uh he did have to come back and all that kind of stuff but uh because his family wanted to get on the road but it it was bad body language but I and

Not great right he just goes oh you know uh I can’t really speak on that right now it’s like Ah that’s not great to hear but it’s it’s uh I I still like where FSU stands the visit still went well um pretty sure he got his letter of

Intent when he walked out so he has it from FSU we’ll see if it’s the one he signs I think he is all right mat ler will be joining us throughout the day here again we’ll be live from now until the end of the Jeff Cameron show which

Will be at the earliest 3M eastern time so everybody buckle up uh we’ll have to bring Matt on a lot just for that backdrop alone they’re jealous spray paint mine like some sort of Walnut color tone there embarrassing us man Matt keep us posing with what’s on out

There man we appreciate you hopping on here with us we do all right welcome back see there we go thanks somebody’s back there helping me out so I know what I’m doing sometimes Signing Day live everybody presented by Walk-Ons Walk-Ons for the win um Michael yep looking

Through all these comments here uh there was one I wanted to pop up skip right by me um our guy Tommy salami says he wants the Don Julio Sounder for Ray because Ray’s giving us some perspective Ray’s dropping a hundred bucks in the jar and um boom dropping 100 just give us some

Perspective Michael I know it’s going to get hectic here uh as we wait for more announcements to come in uh we got numerous signes already we got that posted over on warchant.com but as we wait some for more some guys to commit here just it’s crazy right as Ray kind

Of talks about to look at where we were just three years ago and where we are now I’m grateful that the nles are super relevant again thank you for your super hard work you know we’re every was sitting here obviously Travis Hunter was everything and then that did not work

Out obviously if for some reason one of these five stars doesn’t work out just feels like it won’t be as catastrophic because there’s so many other great prospects in this class plus now you know know for sure some of you out there believed from day one that Mike norell

Was the guy but now you pretty much know you got a really good head coach and you’re on the right track so feel like even at our worst today we shouldn’t be anywhere near as Sullen as we were maybe two years ago no and and the thing is

It’s all about what your product is you want to I mean yeah you want to get every five star and four star but do you want to we win recruiting Awards or you want to been you win championships you want to games you know what your product

Is and the product’s so much now refined that you don’t have to worry about that you don’t have to worry if you say you miss on you know a Jeremiah Smith or somebody else like you don’t have to kill yourself because you feel very confident that

One if they don’t do that they can go on the portal and get whatever they need whether it’s even Prospect or even maybe a more impactful guy early on So you you’re not concerned with that anymore plus where the product is now it’s just totally different from that three years

Ofo which was brutal man uh even recruiting when I was covering even the high school guys you’re just you’re panicking like okay is this guy actually going to sign because the product isn’t there and you just never know what other schools can come in there there but I

Think overall it’s been such a massive transformation um Mike has done a phenomenal job of building the culture that I think a lot of fans and FSU fans won them over of some of the stuff he did you know just the way you know the accountability the you know cleaning up

The roster of guys that don’t buy into what they’re doing and so I think it’s just been um it’s been incredible and it’s definitely not a it’s not even close to the same feeling what you have now like what you have now is like you don’t worry about if this or that

Happens uh yeah there’ll be disappointment if you don’t get a top guy here and there but overall you’re not worried like I said because of what they’ve done in the portal I think that’s the key is but product plus the portal because they have killed it in

The portal you know the last two years and they’re going to do that again uh with guys that want because I think I I looked back when everyone asked me about you know the change and for me the change was when you landed Germaine Johnson what you landed Germaine Johnson

That was a successful career it took off from there and then now we’ve seen FSU just kill it in the portal um so whatever holes you have from high school you can fill it with the portal and that that’s a positive that it takes some it should take some Stress and Anxiety off

Of FSU fans would you have you know that you have that and you know you’ve been successful with it so you can certainly get any guy that you want um you know you know as far as pursuing in different positions so that’s that’s why I think

There’s not a lot of anxiety plus the product is incredible 13 and0 is 13 and0 our guy Eddie mathys wondering anyone we following having a TV announcement I don’t know but our guy Ace teamer says he lives in Gwynette I’m heading over to Buford for KJ ceremony

So maybe Ace can go ahead and live stream that ceremony from his phone drop us a link uh and we’ll broadcast that uh KJ again one of the big names out there for floret as we see here Wonder what time is his announcement uh there Michael I actually have it on my screen

I think somewhere here what do we got KJ one o’clock one o’clock yeah you got a while all right well there we go up on the screen somebody’s wondering who’s the next uh sige to come down we’ll see pretty much everybody at the top of your screen there other than I think Jonathan

Daniels which that might have been a local time thing and him being on Central time in Paca that’s what I was referring to they might be having that starting up maybe right about now so but Jaden Todd Charles ler Elijah Moore is it micaa or Micah

Dany we’ll go MAA i’ go micaa that’s the one that I’ve always said he kind of answers to it so they’re all in the fold here so uh we’re thinking lne McCoy Kai Bates Jamari Howard those guys could be coming up here shortly Jamari Howard BJ

Gibson jamori flag as well there at the nine o’clock hour you are watching the Walk-Ons Sig day Central right here on warchant.com uh 3390 Capital Circle Northeast in Tallahassee but you can go to any Walk-Ons because that’s where the winners go Walk-Ons for the win game day

At Walk-Ons is just different and it starts to the way our teammates prep each dish from our scratch menu no shortcuts we are hand cutting every single mozzarella log Straight From the Block hand peeling stuffing and bacon wrapping each Voodoo shrimp hand carving ribe eyes for our steaks and pooy and

Hand slicing then tossing our boneless wings and housemade sauage with wall to wall TVs and food like this why would you want to watch anywhere else that’s game day the walk- On’s way I mean I’m a big breakfast guy so I woke up at seven this morning so I could

Get my big breakfast in me Michael but all that looked absolutely delicious I think our guy IRA if I’m not mistaken is the uh he goes with a pepperjack chicken sandwich okay uh but I’ve heard now I don’t know for sure but I think Miss Anne Bowen’s banana put

Recipe or the bread pudding recipe rather I heard it was maybe commandeered by some of the folks at Walk-Ons and they went ahead and partnered up with like Crispy Cream and made even better not 100% sure on that tale maybe myth maybe urban legend maybe real thing but

Check out your local Walk-Ons it’s always a great place to catch the game at Florida State December 30th taking on Georgia four o’clock uh maybe you don’t want to listen to the commentators so go to Walk-Ons with all your buddies yell at the screen like go and by the way guys

Um when you go to Walk-Ons obviously there’s a lot of things to choose from but the dessert part they have these little small little beignet type things that you get you know when you go to New Orleans they are phenomenal I forget what they’re called but they are

Fantastic y so uh those are those are really good so yeah definitely go to Walk-Ons are we gonna start can we start drop can we start Banning people that are coming in here with like Charles Lester uh nervousness or whatever people are saying that in he’s he signed everybody he’s done signed everybody

Relax done it’s done you know I don’t know what’s wrong with people I I did get you know further confidence on Jeremiah Smith likely sticking with Ohio State you know just a few minutes ago so I think that’s likely to happen u based on the consistent um you know stuff I’ve gone

With uh but there you go all right um so Jeremiah Smith obviously a Five Star Plus shamad down there in Miami Michael I mean he was a guy that you know sometimes didn’t want to speak to the media when he would come to campus you saw him obviously here on state

Championship weekend what do you think you know all the Ohio State fans were constantly talking about Brian Hartline this Brian Harline that and I think he spoke to another Network last night and said that for him it’s not all about nil he named Florida and Miami as two

Schools that were just throwing crazy money at him if it if it ends up the fact that he does stick with Ohio state is this more about relationships in Ohio State less so than maybe something that Florida State wasn’t able to do I I don’t think it has anything to do with

FSU I think FSU did everything right um I think it’s more about you know what H state does with their pedigree at receiver um you it just in the end you know just you know feeling that comfort with them you know that program now I do think Mike norell was one of his

Favorite coaches to deal with I I think certainly Dugan was a guy that he really liked a lot and I think he was very sold on the of what FS used to and like I said until up to late last night which I think Ohio state had to go in there and

Make a a strong surge you know to finish it off and I think once they did that then that’s kind of what you know solidified it but I think going into the early evening I was expecting a flip uh even though a lot of people from the highway state were confident I think

Even their confidence was like it was almost like a cautious confidence even though everything they’ve heard is like it’s going to be host State I think uh they had to go in there and make a one more big surge to you put it away because I think they didn’t I think I

Think the the chances were real that FSU could pull it off so I think FSU did everything right uh there was nothing FSU could have done differently and I think uh it it speaks to kind of where the program’s at you know the number one player in the country it’s a it it

Should be a no-brainer that you go to Ohio State because of what they do with receivers you they should be a no-brainer but this one was really tight and like I said H state had to go in there and finish it off and and make

That final push but um yeah it’s uh I think it speaks to where the programs at hey Rusty don’t be that guy Rusty look at him the fact everyone thought uh we was going to get the top player in the country is crazy no it’s not Flor State

Went 13 and0 and this kid was really interested in coming there like Flor State’s not at a place where shooting for the Moon is like a absolute pipe dream I mean they were thickness with a kid listen Alabama’s not going to get him either you know Miami didn’t get him

Either I just feel like I just feel like that’s such a natural reaction when things don’t turn out good right you know it’s like nothing against you know Rusty not not trying to jump on Rusty but oh I’m jumping on Rusty over here it feels like a natural reaction when it

Doesn’t happen like yeah if they get them then you these same people that say oh what a incredible day for FSU so it’s like let’s let’s keep it in perspective too like FSU is there you FSU is right there at the top tier of all the teams

Um you know so uh I just think uh I think sometimes we let emotion get into it of of controlling it but yeah Bry they were very much a huge player and and certainly had a chance to do it uh pull it off but I think people

Still maybe it’s the stub thing maybe it’s just uh you know just you know complex or whatever but fsu’s there with the top teams guys like they’re there like they they’ve proven they’re there um so it’s not inconceivable for them to get a the number one player in the

Country in fact that’s kind of what I expect going forward like they should be able to get that because of what they’ve done with their product and how they developed their product Shout out to our guy James B dropping 100 bucks in the jar dollar dollar bills y’all I almost

Hit the Dion Sounder that would have been a bad thing uh I know you guys are working your tails off right now just wanted to drop a little summon to say thank you very much for all the hard work now if we could just get these FSU

Fans off the cliff I think we’ll be okay yeah we’re gonna be all right but Hey listen you know this is a year round thing I’m not GNA tell you not to be emotional at this point but exactly uh there’s a little perspective out there like you know even Bobby and Jimbo his

Height didn’t always get everybody we thought we were gonna get so U as other teams lose other teams say that other guy was on scholarship too you know these these other schools have other things to offer as well so uh let’s keep that in mind here shout out to our guy

Tanner Godwin who I think accidentally dropped us two super chats uh to clarify the fact that he works at Florida high and I’m gonna guess that that’s not phonetically what M I would spell m to be but we’re gonna go we’re gonna call M we’re gonna call Mad Dany micaa um I

Know he get he spells a little bit different LOL he says so just want to make sure the guy that’s coming in here we’re not butchering his name already than thanks man appreciate it that Benjamin ha good also here Michael he’s got 20 bucks in the jar go Nolls thanks

Ben does it seem like Armando blunt was chasing the money or just an undecided kid go nolles thank you boys um I don’t think so much him I would say people around him um but it’s kind of a mixture of both I think is a very incisive guy but also you know the

Nil that uh FSU had uh FSU nil battles in whatnot U I think it was very uh strong and at that one point it’s like is it about the school or is it about you know nil Centric and I think that as it went on late it was I think

FSU kind of let it slide for a while but then after a while they just like washed their hands and like we’re done with this you know because it’s like at at some point it’s got to be about what the program is or the product is and and I

Think at that point I think FSU was just like once he didn’t come over for the official visit and decide to go to Miami for offish of it it was kind of like it’s done yeah there wasn’t a time where I know people are GNA ask me like hey

Did FSU still try to go no they’re done it’s it’s done like they moved on um so I think it gets to a point where you know different people have different influences of what they look for and I think at that point when it got to that

Stage I think FSU kind of felt like hey this is more nil Centric than it is actually football um and yes as Ben’s pointing out Russy we do still love you I’m just giving you hard time man everybody be young Rusty um it’s gonna be all good um

And I’m so perplexed by this whole reclassification thing as well too so yeah I mean floor State’s in the mix for that defensive end who’s also reclassified himself so correct I mean they’re going to show they they’re going to be like what 16 years old maybe 17

Years old when they get on Camp so exactly that’s wild man and it’s wild and it’s too it’s kind of like there’s no guarantee when you sign these things that that kid stays like that kid literally doesn’t have to stay like he could play somewhere say goes to Miami

You can play there one year and just say you know what I don’t like what’s going on here and just leave um so and go somewhere else but um it it’s it’s crazy uh you know just the way the nil can impact things in a lot of ways uh and I’ll say

It straight up and I said it the other day there’s no nil problems with FSU guys stop with that narrative it’s not there’s no problems enough you know there they’re fine they’re doing more than fine so it’s not about that every time kid F you lose a kid it’s not

Because oh they’re broke or they’re stingy with money all that silliness it’s not about that so there’s a lot of facts that go into it the other factor with with blunt was the pressure to stay home there’s a lot of people around him that pressure them the want stay home

You know and ason knows about that in different states you know how it is um so that happens you know so that part that’s part of the equation too um and when you have this n indecisiveness too it’s kind of it’s kind of a a sign you

Know warning sign that well maybe I don’t know if this is it if it has this much trouble you know in thec and Amanda’s a great kid I’ve dealt with Arondo and his parents and his family they’re all great people so I want to make that clear just I’m just saying

Each kid is different of of what they value what’s in some are more indecisive than others and that’s the way it goes you know you’re not g to get everybody and I expect FSU to go to the portal and you know get some talented defensive lineman already got one in Marvin Jones

Jr Big Time ad uh so I think more are coming from the defensive line and and they’ll fill the hole of whatever they didn’t get with uh blunt hopefully they get the Amari Williams kid who is likely to sign in February but um overall they’re going to

Feel the need they’re going to fill the hole uh whether it’s a portal kid or whether it’s with a high school kid probably both P Simpson wonders of the guys who signed today other than Balden and let’s let’s not take everything anything for granted who is

Someone that can make a day one impact do you think Michael um I’ve already mentioned Elijah Moore I think Elijah can play uh early uh because I I don’t think they have too many guys that are physically imposing of what he does uh as far as a receiver uh that’s certainly one

Um um is Ryan Fitzgerald coming back next year Aon I don’t know okay yeah so that Jake Jake Jake one of those guys you got a good feeling about Jake could Jake could be he’s number one kicker in the country so that’s one that I know people forget

About because he’s a kicker uh but and I think guys like Ma and um and Charles can be impactful guys on special teams I I have no doubt saying that like they’re they’re both very good on special teams I think they certainly are are big weapons that they can do a lot of

Different things uh with their game um especially micaa just what he does on kickoffs uh man he would be he would be a massive weapon so I expect that you know I don’t know if you consider that as starting spot or impact but I I I

Think it’s I think it’s certainly um you know impactful guy guys there at special team so those are some of the main ones that for sure I’d say um Cam Davis you would say because of the running backs they’ve lost maybe he gets some burn uh

You know that first year um you as far as getting on the field that’s another guy that you feel like hey could get in there you know and do different things uh offensive line probably more that’ll take a little longer because it seems to you don’t want to lean too much on

Freshman you know the first year so probably not any of those that just uh you know jump out to me um I think we could see DD Holmes flash a little bit as far as he’s supposed to sign around 11 by the way um he’s a guy that I think

Great pass rusher G great Edge guy to get off uh his body frame seems to be ready to for the college level so he could be a guy that you see some get some action in there but I think those are some of the guys and then and then

My guy Jaden Parish I think FSU fans are going to love him I don’t know how much he’s going to play the first year but I think he fits everything that you want in FSU linebacker runs well laterally great sideline to sideline guy I think

He’s a fun guy that I think FSU fans will fall in love with pretty quickly uh as a young linebacker Signing Day live here on warchant.com presented by Walk-Ons uh thanks for being here everybody hit that thumbs up we certainly would appreciate it we’re GNA have you covered all day

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Thumbs up um and we will uh let everybody know how much they’re appreciated here on the program here we’re going to pull up here shortly Kai Bates is on the clock uh he’s live streaming his Instagram so we’re g to tap into that feed um apparently it’s

Part of a larger class a larger School commitment ceremony so as soon as we get a feeling that maybe he’ll be on the uh the podium or on the microphone making his decision we’ll uh we’ll pull him in in here kind of go ahead I was just

Gonna say if you pull up Kai bates’s um IG uh yeah yeah you can um you can watch his live signing um at 8 right now all right we’re on all right let’s uh let’s go ahead and do that here we’ll we’ll turn our audio down and we’ll

We’ll listen in here if we go a little too long about nothing going on over there we’ll we’ll chime back but you’re watching Kai bates’s upcoming announcement ceremony and signing right here War chance Signing Day live presented by W football program being a lead in every area of academically athletically also very very

Leadership I know all right which we don’t have the audio right now that’s my bad sorry everybody uh but you can see I don’t imagine he’s gonna flip wearing all that go total like hey man get these people off my back out here there he is

Signing you don’t want to make a speech Kai come on man speech all right here we go um I really just really want to say thank you to everybody that supported me through this process and thankful for my family and for everybody that supported me my guidance counselors my teammates

And just definitely the brothers that I built relationships with throughout the season uh some times that I’ll never forget with some of the best people that I ever been around I just really want to thank my mom my dad and everyone that supported me and just for all the love

To this process and I just plan on going up and making an impact and just showing what I could really do and go nose all right um he said go nolles he’s excited he’s signing so oh yeah we’ll get the next one here a little cleaner for you

Folks next time but k b for our defensive back officially on board now here with the class Michael he was a flip let’s all appreciate what Flo was able to do in getting him to come to join this program what kind of player do you see in Kai

Bates yeah I mean just uh a guy that you know started off at receiver um out at a high school at out of Edgewater and they moved him over to Corner does a lot of corner things can even do some safety things even told me that like like I can

Play safety if I need to uh very uh long long athletic guy um does a lot of familiar things of kind of what you see from guy like Shaheem Brown uh which is which is not a bad thing seem’s a really good player um but um I think as he gets

More comfortable with technique and stuff like that he’s a guy that I think you’re G to you know see a lot of uh not blazing fast but good speed but uh his instincts are phenomenal I mean he has incredible instincts on the ball tracks the ball well U that cry goes back to

His receiving days just as a receiver he’s so natural with that kind of kind of similar path to kind of what they you we saw with how Xavier rhs’s career went where Xavier was mainly a receiver then got transitioned to a DB I think Xavier

Told me at that time like I when they brought him in I haven’t played DB and so it’s like don’t worry we’ll we’ll figure it out and it worked out pretty well for Xavier so I think this kid falls in that same category I always love receivers that move over the DB

Because they’re so naturally understanding the tracking and and technique and and hand placement of where they need to be and always like uh you know he he’s just a really fun guy to watch uh I would say he’s probably around 6’2 um you know as far as height

He’s pretty tall kid I don’t know the exact weight maybe 180 uh something like that but but um overall a guy that FSU highly coveted uh when they when they got him the flip from LSU as a guy that they want I know Cain is extremely high

On this kid uh as is the whole staff so that was a major win for FSU and that’s what I kind of talk about consistently with everyone’s like hey focus on the guys that they do have in this class as well guys they are some really Elite guys that they’re bringing in especially

That defensive back group I mean if you can finish it off with KJ balen I mean that’s probably going to be the great uh one of the best uh defensive back classes they’ve ever signed so it speaks to kind of where FSU is going as a

Program overall and uh I think it speaks to certainly the the recruiting ability of Patrick Cain as well uh that he is he is killing it um obviously Adam Fuller’s also killing it so be excited there’s a lot to be excited about s fans about what your program is doing and where

They’re going yeah hit the thumbs up Kai bat’s in the house everybody um our guy Mike Daniel dropped five bucks in the jar but to say something mean-spirited about somebody on the on3 network so we’re not going to do that but Mike thanks for the five

Bucks um at least 50 bucks if you’re gonna if you’re gonna slander somebody we got we all got a price Michael we all got a price uh Ryan Renfro dropped $70 if my public school math does not fail me here um seeing a lot of predictions for KJ to

Georgia thoughts Michael question mark yeah I haven’t heard anything new I I’ll certainly check on that I might hop off this a little bit and let Matt come in here and let me check on it but um I I’ll check on that guys I’m not I’m not

Sure I haven’t I haven’t heard anything uh new on my on my level but I I will certainly check on it all right is that your polite way of saying you want me to get Matt on here right now Michael drop you can drop Matt on there I I’ll do

Some checking and then I pop I’ll pop back in when I have some more we need to have like a message here on the scam that’s like Michael is still here with us everybody back behind the scenes working to make things happen here so uh we got our own Matt L staff Rider

Warchant.com also our recruiting uh analyst helping us out here on our Signing Day Live program with Walk-Ons uh Kai Bates that was a fun one right we had that we had that one locked in ready to go when he was about to flip but it

Took a little bit longer for him to come around but uh excited to hear his name kind of officially be com across here now man yeah for sure um to go back into his recruitment I think the turning point there was that LSU game in Orlando obviously he’s from Orlando and was at

The game as an LSU commit and we blew the brakes off them and I think that kind of started to shift the tide a little bit there um La the god it’s not about nil it’s about certain position coaches getting outworked in recruiting uh TBE subscriptions went up

Not down use your head folks but then our guy Benjamin ha good which thank you la the god um I think that’s how he pronounced gwd the god out to him Benjamin hey good 10 bucks I was just joking by the way La our Collective is Elite everybody stop

With the negativity if you think it’s bad you should donate true uh I contribute to the battles end and boosters and it’s the best go nlls yeah me think about how many more listen it’s it’s it’s it’s a fact everybody there are more University of Florida alum in

This world than Florida State it’s just the way it is they’ve been around longer they’ve been longer um they do not nearly have as much at their disposal to help their football team as evidenced by the fact they don’t have a football game to prepare for in the next few weeks so

U not gonna get all of them listen Jeremiah Smith’s gonna either go to Ohio State or Florida State like Alabama’s not gonna get him remember when Alabama you get everybody from South Florida guys didn’t matter they get everybody everybody Jones who’s actually from Alabama but I’m trying to think all the

Guys from South Florida when I was out there Jerry Judy he was a South Florida guy uh um was jayen Jaylen wall from Texas I think but you guys know what I’m saying um let’s see what else we got here can we please talk about what’s happening with Charles Lester so I think

Maybe we should bring you on like at least just one minute every hour Matt like what are you guys talking about just again to clarify I guess for people that might be joining us late here I guess there was some tweet that said maybe he was going to wait to make his

Announcement but he has officially signed so yeah he he tweeted out he was going to wait and then I think like five minutes later FSU posted that he signed so it he just wanted to play the game and mess around with you guys is the

Best way to look at it I think uh he did the same thing with Colorado when he committed uh back in I want to say July Late July early August um just just wanted to keep you on the edge of your seat make you worry a little bit have

People uh tune in right that’s right uh Matt right now I think Florida State still sits what top five in class rank overall if I’m not mistaken I hard to imagine that it’s not going to least I mean that’s kind of the the floor has been set for this class no matter what

Happens here the next few hours this going to be a top five class regardless of where KJ bowlan and Jeremiah Smith and Armond blunt end up yeah I mean I would think so you still got some other guys who we’re looking at too like you got LJ McCrae

Who there I’m not super confident there but you know floor state is still in it there uh Amari Williams who we don’t expect to sign today right now uh but our keeping an eye on it is another one to watch later down the road so yeah that you can definitely still uh

Probably still be in the top five uh waiting on some other commitments to come up here but if you’re over at warchant.com checking out our social media we do have a list of all the players who have officially signed and committed and we also have some upcoming signing times as we’ll hit

The nine o’clock hour uh expectations of BJ Gibson jamori flag Jamari Howard to make their official announcements at 9:00 uh then at the 10: a.m. hour we’ll have land Thomas Camden frier and LJ McCrae will be the first five star that’s kind of on the fence that will officially make their announcement again

Are Michael lsen behind the scenes working to confirm some information I think regarding the KJ baling commitment upcoming if you’re just joining us now Michael received some information probably about 20 minutes or so ago that’s trending in the direction of Ohio State to hold on to Jeremiah Smith so uh

That again though a fluid situation we’ll see how it does work out Jeremiah Smith scheduled to make his announcement at 12:00 uh is he still the number one overall Prospect in the entire class right now Matt 202 so for the industry rankings for the industry rankings yeah

Yeah who’s ours who does who’s like do we do we know like do you know who the on three guy is I mean I don’t have who we have on three guy I don’t know it off the top of my head I just I know Jeremiah Smith because uh hey I set you

Up for failure that was bad I was throwing you over the Middle with a I know Jeremiah Smith because I always type number one player number one player according to the on three industry rankings so it’s just I don’t might be a quarterback is my guess I’m not exactly

Sure all right could be our guy by the way not a Florida State commitment but it’s official Dylan riola yeah yeah yeah committed to Nebraska Nebraska might finally be back if you know Nebraska fans shoot him a text tell them you’ve been thinking about him for the last 20

Years and you’re glad that maybe they’re finally going to be able to start winning football games at a consistent rate here uh they haven’t been able to really celebrate anything other than they thought they had the man when they had Scott Frost those poor Guys somebody

Saying DJ lagway is the number one no no it’s uh I just pulled it up it’s Williams Noy I don’t know how to pronounce that mou mou D Edge commit mou Edge commit and he just signed with missou there too uh can you touch on Balden we’re working on that right now

Michael Langston get some sourcing to uh confirm some details on the recruitment of KJ Bolen again KJ Balden probably between seemingly Florida state Georgia as well as Auburn and one of those is not like the others but there’s something out there now that helps level the playing

Field and man Hugh fre you know everyone talks about body language and I wish I wish I had the photo up to pop it up right now um and I don’t know how much he tweets so maybe I can scroll through there and find the actual photo but man

When they’re when they made the home visit Auburn at KJ balin’s house like uh his father had didn’t have great body language like wasn’t didn’t seem all that Stoke to have Hugh fre inside of his house like that’s what I felt good about the KJ balen uh recruitment

But then he show up to Florida State and for whatever reason you guys didn’t like that body language maybe just maybe it’s just his dad in general it just keeps keeps it pretty stoic because it looks like here with Kirby uh he’s just you know he’s not he’s not too happy yeah

Crazy man in my house trying to sell me the world uh but he’s actually somewhat smiling there but yeah he looked totally not interested when Hugh freze was over at the house so u i man I could sleep I could sleep better if they were to lose out to

Georgia I get it Kirby kind of knows what he’s doing on defense homeschool I get it but they like lose him out to Auburn would be like ah like Hugh freeze again this guy because what was a defensive end last year that they they scooped out from Florida State’s grasp

At the last minute so you know don’t want don’t want a pattern to be developing here but we’ll see how it goes again our Michael langson he’s with us here as Matt ler is Ben Spicer Tom Lang behind the scenes well making things work Tom and Jeff will be taking

Over Tom might be taking over before one o’clock when he and Jeff Cameron take the airwaves right here on warchant TV as well as 933 Real Talk terrestrial radio here in Tallahassee so we’ll have some fresh voices for you to get you throughout the day and the evening here

So um O P Simpson KJ’s dad has a as on a tind date oh too real too real uh Mark Cannon wondering about Jonathan Daniels at 7 am. and lne McCoy 8: am. we’re supposed to sign no news yet yeah let’s let’s keep in mind some of these things

You know High School ceremonies sometimes are not the most segmented regimented on time uh you know you have to go like down the line a lot of them too right because you have multiple kids signing whether it’s to like Texas A&M Commerce or something like that too like

You got all the guys and obviously you’re going to save your biggest once for last to keep people sticking around so it’s uh that’s probably what’s taken so long you just got to go down the line of everyone signing and not just football too that’s right that’s true man yeah

There’s always that Mom and Dad that like elbows in their kids track signing at you know Cumberland School of the South and you’re like all right that’s great go throw the javelin uh is he gonna Comm to Miss or Mississippi State that that happened to us in Mississippi

All the time but hey I get it you know your parents are proud of your kids they getting a scholarship too William Sam’s got jokes battles end needs to work the nil deals like sh Otani deal in La yeah defer it all to the end when I saw that tweet I was like

This isn’t real is it it’s real all that money towards the end of the deal I keep seeing people trying to like create um you know bad vibes on the Balden commitments I will say I will say this isn’t a great uh Little Nugget I guess but

Jeffrey Lee of on three put a prediction in for Georgia to flip Balden okay that’s all I see right now and Michael’s obviously working some stuff all right um is it is it is it to EAS Jeffrey see is did he tweet it or has he on account tweeted it out I don’t

Think so I just see it if you go to KJ’s profile and click the I I got it I got it on the screen from five minutes ago Michael’s here Jus in time to put out a fire uh that’s why they pay him the big dollars we don’t need Matt to go through

This trauma this in his young career um yeah looks like the Auburn oh the Auburn guy yeah I think I actually know that I think he might have been on the podcast when I was working in Miss in Alabama but an Auburn guy has logged an expert prediction for Georgia to flip

Five Star Plus safety KJ Balden from Florida State so that’s an Auburn Guy saying that the Florida state commit is going to flip to Georgia this is the world that we live in Matt I’m going to let you uh get back to monitoring things out there on the internet as we roll

Into our number two not going to try to say it cool like Jeff Cameron or Corey Clark here on our sign Day live presented by Walk-Ons Walk-Ons for the win shout out to our guy Matt lasair he’ll be out throughout the day helping us here Michael’s

Tapping back in here um reaction to this Michael I’m sure you probably heard some things that might also add some color to the tweet that came out about five minutes ago on KJ Balden stats yeah there’s uh you there’s some Buzz uh building probably around 15 minutes ago

Where I was on the show let talking and you I got a text that you know there’s Buzz building uh of people for the first time around Balon that told me like uh yeah this is very real that you know it could happen um it’s trending towards

That way uh it’s not like set in stone I know FSU is still working on it you know from their perspective from the N perspective um so they’re they’re still working behind the scenes on it but you know it’s definitely uh I think trending that direction towards Georgia

Unfortunately did if to me it always kind of felt like Auburn was going to be the one that would be able to pull this off kind of at the last minute did Georgia come on late the last 48 hours last week last two weeks how’s it kind

Of unfolded for you you think Michael well I think I I’ve always felt like even with the Auburn stuff as we heard like even when I went down for his announcement you know the expectation was it was going to be Georgia that was the expectation like I remember there was like seven members

Media members from the Georgia side that they felt like it was going to be Georgia and then he ended up committing to FSU um but I think Auburn’s kind of the you know the more um I guess the hype excitement we heard a lot about the

Buzz and I think he likes a few coaches there from Auburn but at the same time I think Georgia and FSU were the proven products um so I think I think when in the end of the day I mean you’re losing you know potentially a guy

That I mean it’s a big loss I mean don’t get wrong with it and I think they will certainly add they will F the spot you know in um you know from the portal or whatnot um but at the same time you know it’s a big loss but at the same time

It’s a it’s a peach stake kid of potentially committing to the you know two-time defending national champs um they certainly have a product that’s really good and you can understand uh of why it potentially happen now I do I did feel like going there last night they

Felt like they would be enough to hold on but we knew you I told we what wasn’t done the body language showed me that there wasn’t a final decision and maybe a final decision has been made finally and it’s starting to leak uh out but um

I haven’t heard that for sure but I’ve heard it’s trending that way but um George’s always been you know you you want to be fair in the conversations George has been was the favorite when this whole thing started in recruiting um so it it’s s it would be sucky news

But at the same time um it’s not like totally totally shocking because I’ve kind of hinted at people uh even when I did that interview with him at FSU that it didn’t feel like hey this thing’s completely shut down you know I’ve heard through Georgia contacts they felt like

It wasn’t over and I think it just everyone assumed like Auburn but I always had George in there where like I said they were the favorite before before this whole thing started we knew they weren’t going to go away and they just kept plugging away and and they got

It and they got it done but or likely got it done potentially um and then if that does happen I think FSU will go in the portal and they’ll get a really talented defensive back that experience that they feel like can come in and and help

Them the life we have chose to live Michael um it’s never easy is it it’s never simple this I if I even remotely seem like I’m taking a shot at a kid everybody call me out on this because I I will not take a shot at these kids

Because I I can’t I can’t imagine all they go through but like it’s just wild to me that like me and my parents would drive five hours somewhere like a like a week ago and go through the whole thing um you know even if I thought I’m like

I’m probably not going to go there there’s a chance I might go to floor ha mom but I I don’t think so I’m G to go to Georgia I don’t think that make everybody go down there and do the whole thing like you guys talk about like the

Body language he has not being comfortable talking to like Mike and the reporters out front more like what would it be like going through an entire visit for a weekend like yeah man I’m not coming here but like go through all of it so yeah sh sorry Mike just real quick

To like give you not to give you like cover but just to explain like let’s all let’s all take everything into kind of perspective here about like this isn’t Florida State pro pro Florida State media propping up a prospect because he’s on campus and trying to make it

Sound like you know they’re the the team to be like obviously things can change like overnight 48 hours later when it comes to the recruitment of kids at this level with everybody that’s involved it is and um I’ll say this it’s not gonna make anybody feel any better but very

Rarely when guys are committed that long do they do they flip uh you know LJ McCrae I think think he will you will stick with you know Florida and then obviously I’ve already shared my thoughts on Jeremiah Smith and then this is the one that certainly did didn’t do

That and went to a different direction I agree asine it doesn’t make a lot of sense you would think you’d just take a visit to Georgia and say hey let the tea leafes take itself and and go from there but I guess um he wanted to show like

Hey give it a chance to see how I feel but I think uh you know if he does end up picking geordan at the end of the day I think uh being close to home being in a pro a productive program um certainly was a a selling point for him but I I

Really felt like there was a good chance that FSU would hold on but obviously they didn’t do enough to finish it off and um but again we have to wait until one o’clock a lot could still happen but it feels like that’s the way it’s

Trending but it’s not a I mean it’s not a comfortable feeling guys to to cover this stuff and just uh the weight things can be fluid it’s very fluid like I said last night hearing good things as far as uh you know holding on to them we knew

That was still wasn’t over but um that’s that’s the world of recruiting we live on how fluid it can be and how you know teams can come in there late and how a guy can go to bed one night and say you know what I feel like this is probably

The place but I’m gonna see how I feel in the morning then in the morning you’ll feel a little bit more different um so uh it’s the recruiting world we live in it stinks uh or it potentially stinks but uh at the same time you got to move forward and

And and they will address they will address the position if they feel like they need another DB uh from the portal they’ll certainly they’ll certainly pick a guy up um um but um like overall if I guess if you’re looking for a glimmer of light if it if you’re looking for that

You know at least it didn’t go one of your Rivals that you play every year you know it doesn’t go to somebody that is going to affect you like Miami Florida or Clemson um but it still hurts it’s still a big loss um and certainly FSU

Will have to go in there and uh you know address uh you know that position I think Florida State’s actually supposed to play Georgia like uh you know non-conference schedule maybe 26 or something like that but point taken nonetheless uh our guy Jared Thompson this the the worst part about

This is that what he’s supposed to commit at one o’clock so everybody’s mad right now and they’re gonna have to relive the anger at one o’clock thankfully though Tom Lang and Jeff Cameron will take those arrows now I know what it feels like to maybe have

Been live on air when Travis Hunter did his thing two years ago I wasn’t on air for when that happened um but Jared you know drops 20 bucks in the jar and thank you Jared uh this is not sour grapes but an honest question I’ll I’ll throw some

Thoughts on and I’ll let you go with it after that Michael what exactly are we donating to when we cannot close or retain at an elite level especially to a program that totes is not overpaying quote un quote well let’s let’s realize that you know certain guys didn’t have

Been retained you know Patrick pton did not put his name into the portal yep um let’s remember that this entire team was built around what this Collective was able to do in terms of retaining the talent and adding talent to it and the portal has only been open for not even

Three weeks yet and there’s quarterback prospects that you’re gonna get one of them uh and they’re not done yet and I get it I get it you know you figure all this money all this increased subscriptions you can get whoever you want but for some people it’s just not

As cut in the check Mike I just don’t agree with the premise of what Jared’s saying you know first of all their nil is very competitive and and what you’re what what you’re contributing to is FSU being in in the picture of of doing that and and they’re very competitive I don’t

Think he chose Georgia because of some nil deal I don’t I think he chose Georgia because of if he does choose pick Georgia it’s because he’s going um he’s going to a place that one is in state two it’s it’s certainly a productive product and three uh you know

He’s comfortable with that staff you know so it’s like this narrative continuing I hear all the time when FSU doesn’t get a guy is like oh we’re not paying enough as a collective like that’s just not true like it’s just not true like it’s not true and and I tell

You this I mean you know as much as people mention the the Georgia nil they’re going to covet guys but they’re not going to covet it so much more than FSU it’s very competitive it’s very similar you know sometimes kids just pick a school because you know of

Overall other decisions it’s not just nio not everything is n n related I think people want to pinpoint that to scapegoat somebody like they’re doing something wrong and they’re not the reason you do it is be uh the reason you want to give is because you’re contributing to FSU football and FSU uh

You know possibilities of nil it’s there it’s going to be there for a while so you need to accept it and that’s I think the FSU fans responded a lot I think there’s what over 5,000 members now so they’ve they’ve gotten some kids through nil uh that they’ve coveted uh a lot um

So you can’t sit there and have it both ways you can’t say well we got this guy but then then when you lose a guy you say you didn’t now you don’t have it it’s like you can’t have it both ways they they’ they’ve coveted they’ve

Gotten guys that are nil related um but they’re not going to be a program that’s nil Centric on a kid because it’s not going to work he doesn’t fit the culture if if that’s your focus um so um overall I think uh the collective is doing really good but they didn’t lose

Because they didn’t uh or or somebody beat them nil wise with the KJ bowl and the sweet snakes in my opinion I I think it’s more about what Georgia is as a program and not so much anything FSU did wrong and hey again it is 9:15 a.m. here

On the East Coast we appreciate you being here the over or the nearly 4,000 of you now maybe we got some people that want to come take joy in our misery so everybody Brave face don’t break you’re unconquered you’re not affected by this but he’s going to officially announce his

Intentions at 100 PM so technically coaches can’t speak to players right now but if you’re one of these folks that subscribes to everything’s about nil well I’m sure you know even at the 11th hour here you can kind of try to make your last ditch efforts not sure that is

Going to work out in Florida State’s favor so we get to relive all this misery at one o’clock but it’s it’s not I know we’re speaking like it’s officially over but you never know just does not obviously seem to be in a good place right now as we sit here and talk

About it right exactly and and we’ll see what happens uh but guys FSU is gonna be fine relax they’re good they’re GNA be fine yes it’s a big loss they had them all year committed he’s a great talent he’s going to make an impact wherever he

Goes but at the same time it’s not life or death you know it’s not like the end of fsu’s program it’s not they’re going to get the player to fill that role like I heard the same thing when they didn’t get Travis Hunter oh our program’s going

To fall apart yeah that didn’t happen did it 13 and0 you know turned around 10- win season before that so FSU will fill the void if that it comes to that and it’s a big loss but at the same time you don’t need to just like feel it’s the death of of of

Everything um and it’s a really good defensive back class a really good class like a really good class that’s going to certainly help them in in for several years but um I think you have to put perspective on this stuff and and understand not every situation is in I

Related some situations are kid just wants to go there kid just feels that this is the place that I feel like I can go there yeah I can go there I can make an impact and feel more comfortable making an impact there um maybe I I definitely could say the stub maybe

Helped uh contribute to this you know not being in there knowing George is going to be in there more than likely most cases so just keep that in mind that they’re not there yet and they’re getting to the process of getting where they want to go where you get these guys

Every year and it’s just a layup and and stuff like that but it’s just a reality of what we live on that it’s not everything is nio related and FSU Collective battles in is a phenomenal Collective they have doing a great job they’ve they’ve killed it like I said

They’ve got some guys that they’ve coveted um it’s not like there’s some broke group that doesn’t pay or they’re stingy with money or something like that like they Market the right people and they do their thing and um FSU is going to be more than fine uh yes

It’s a blow but let’s let’s keep it in reality too of what FSU has done as far as organizing the roster every year even when they lose big losses like the Travis Hunter and other guys you know they always find a way you to find the

Right guy that is going to fit them in the portal and I have no doubts if KJ Bolton does go to Georgia that that they’ll do that m Myers I think speaking for all of us that are going to be in front of a camera here for the next five hours 24

Hours or however much uh cam Ward announce please yeah you know if you’re the collective and you miss out on KJ bll I know we were talking earlier Michael about having Lane setup where like maybe you let this be the day for the high school kids to enjoy it but you

Know if KJ Bolin perhaps flips as been reported by one of the Auburn writers on our Network here right maybe at that point kind of like when things didn’t work out with tr Hunter and Julian ARA was supposed to commit I think like on that Thursday yeah all of a sudden at

Like 10 p.m. at night he’s yeah maybe I’ll go ahead and commit now because I’m sure he was kind of Maybe here’s a little next yeah and if you remember that day AAR Thomas kind of took some pressure off of um he committed around noon um so that kind of got the ball

Rolling but I get it youo it drains you um when when you lose something big but as I said um you know don’t lose face of what what the facts are of of the class at General as a whole um I know it I know it potentially hurts or what could

Happen but like overall I have a different feeling now asine than I did back then because back then I didn’t know what FSU was going to do in the portal now we do right like now we do know what they do in the portal they’re going to get talented kids they’re going

To fill the holes and gaps of wherever it is so um it just is it it just it’s not you know the end of the world like they will they will figure out they will figure out whatever positions that holdes that they need to fill um and uh

Go from there I know everyone wants like positive news to make them feel better of you know somebody you know signing or or committing but um maybe a transfer portal but just give it time guys let the process go go through it uh Kevin Gonzalez can you guys please

Explain the difference if any between the battles end and Rising spear I think the easiest way to differentiate the two Kevin is that I guess battle Zen is also kind of exploring the golf space but battle end is primarily solely nearly focus on football and that is retaining

The players that currently aren roster and going after guys that are in the portal or in high school to bring them in Rising spear has a handful of of I think football players under their umbrella but battles end mostly football Rising spear your other sports your your women’s soccer softball baseball

Basketball so not to say that they all couldn’t be under one but you know Rising spear was actually first on the scene and then battles end came off the top rope with a real strong mission statement and got things done so uh no matter who you give to it’s helping out

A Florida State athlete but battle end is going to the guys that you cheer for on Saturday so yeah I will chime in interrupt uh Lo McCoy is doing his live thing on Instagram if you want to pull that up ason I’m being told that uh it’s

It’s in progress uh as soon as it gets closer to maybe him going ahead and making his decision uh we will then bring that up as well but nothing imminent right now I’m being told okay uh let’s let’s get out the uh this will be our venting half hour we’ll continue

To the bottom of the hour here Nico Sharky that’s a strong name Nico almost as strong as a suit let me let me get a little yeah look at that cream colored suit yellow tie sharp Nico some of us on here are irritatingly oblivious Jeremiah Smith made it clear

He is not going to the highest bidder but to who gets him most NFL ready nil won’t miss Heath the needle not sure the last part of that was I I don’t get that last part but yeah I agree with Nico that it would and it never has with Jeremiah like I said

It’s different guys that are important but um you know there’s certain you know I think people it makes people feel good to say well our n is as good as somebody else you know when sometimes it’s just you sometimes they just uh you go to a place that they feel more comfortable that

That they feel like it can get you ready for whatever you’re going to where it’s the NFL or or just in general maybe there’s a coach they’re more comfortable with um so so sometimes it just works that way you know life’s not perfect and life’s not easy but it this Narrative of

Just using the ni every time it’s just silly at this point I mean I think fsu’s landed so many guys nio related that it’s kind of silly to mention it now that oh oh we got problems when when there’s not problems when you when you add 5,000 members and and it’s rolling

The way it’s rolling the NL is not a problem for FSU at all as far as getting kids are getting players so I think I think that that’s a problem I think L Wayne’s getting ready to I’m late to the party we keep Banning people and I want

To see what they said for us to ban them I love that I love seeing like The Angst and then we just go like you’re out of here you’re gone there was a comment here I wanted to pop up but um yeah listen Michael was receiving information as well earlier uh

In the 8:00 hour regarding KJ balin’s status so I know we we had the tweet on the screen for maybe a little bit too long from our Onre network but yeah we’re not we’re not everything that we’ve been discussing is not because some guy from Auburn reported this

Michael’s you know dialed in here on our side so he’s yeah we we’ve we’ve heard we’ve heard similar stuff so it’s not something that that news us and that’s why I got off you know really quick just to get more detail let Matt go in there

And talk but um you know I’d heard heard heard as well so it’s out there we know we know it’s out there we we uh I just had to do more digging to find out more you know finishing stuff on it all right uh Michael did mention that we’ve got a

Upcoming commitment live on Instagram so let’s take you there let’s tap into the feed you’re watching sign Day live presented by Walk-Ons here on warchant.com L McCoy Michael I decided to take my un he’s not going to James madon but his boy is going to James M relax here yeah a nice ring

Yeah Bo going to jam congratulations James Madison division one I’m buing bro calm down how many guys do we think three guys I’m not gonna talk over a guy but ready got go about you got a go happened maybe some unsaving anoun the kids are in the car with apologize yeah

Scared scared we await the announcement from lne McCoy fourstar Michael yeah fourstar chill man tell him about it l Wayne ra say you tripping you see him ra we hit the over 4,000 Mark everybody we’re here you’re watching us live sign Day live presented by our good friends over at

Walk-Ons Walk-Ons for the win Michael angon waiting the announcement from lne McCoy plenty of content over on warchant.com we’ve got breakdowns from several of the prospects already committed to Florida State lne ended the video come on man but uh as I was saying we got plenty of content including breakdowns with Tom

Lang and Dominic Robinson on several of the prospects here that have committed to Florida State um Kai Bates is the most recent guy that has committed but Charles ler is a guy that everybody was a little bit nervous about because of some Twitter misunderstanding but he has signed Flor state has received his

Paperwork so let’s get a little bit of a closer look at Charles Lester what he means for this program what he’s going to bring to the Back Field which you’re all a little bit concerned about the back end of this defense uh but let’s hear what Tom Lang and Dominic Robinson

See when they turn the tape on and look at Mr Charles Lester one of the standout prospects in this 2024 class breaking down another big-time defensive back for Florida State’s 2024 class this is Charles Lester III he’s been a five-star upper fourstar throughout the process here Florida State lands another

Big-time member of the secondary and breaking it down for us is Dominic Robinson lead football analyst here at warchant.com and warchant TV please do us a favor hit the like button under the video because it’s eval time Dominic will break it down based upon the film

And then we’ll also get to a scouting scale as to how ready Charles Lester is for prime time at Florida State so Dominic when you take a look at Charles Lester what is it that stands out to you about this Prospect for Flor State um so anytime I especially when you pull up

DB’s film I hate seeing pass breakups early in the film if I’m watching a highlight film I want to see ball in the air and ball in your hands um I don’t want to see it on the ground I don’t want to see you celebrating the pass breakup and and

That was the first thing that jumped out on the page when I saw him was um the ball was in his hands you know from from the jump the other thing that I love seeing is him him there’s a lot of wide receiver um you know on this film and

That tells me a lot as a defensive back coach that tells that gives me a lot of information one in order to play offense you got to know offense and so in order to be good at defense you got to have an understanding of offense if we can go

Back um on on this uh Ben the thing that I I I don’t get to see a lot because there’s so much offenses his technique here like you see this technique there’s really no nothing there in terms of technique he’s standing straight up at the snap this is just an athlete being

An athlete and you see this a lot with DB film so I’m not being critical of him specifically um it it’s very tough and I was this way as a def defensive back if you watch my defensive back film um there was I I had 21 interceptions but

There was Zero times that I had good technique on any of those interceptions I was just an athlete um you know defensive back coaches in high school you know they don’t do as good of a job as college coaches do so you don’t see a lot of of of highlevel technique because

You’re going against inferior athletes and so you see that a lot when you when you pull up defensive back film and I see the little bit of that with him I don’t see a lot of his technique because um a lot of times he doesn’t need to

Have good technique and then I also don’t see him um you know we don’t get to see a lot of his highlights because most of his highlights are on are on offense because he’s such a good Corner they can’t they don’t throw his way and he doesn’t have to play with great

Technique so let me ask okay go ahead I was gonna say putting the pieces together really quickly if you see that he’s an offense player which tells you he’s got football run that one back run that one back again Ben go ahead sorry so if you see an

Offensive player or sorry a defensive player could play offense which tells you he’s got IQ points that would that give you hope for technique because that means he’s smart with the game yeah and the other thing that te it tells me is like he’s an athlete so he has the

Ability to learn um if he’s on offense that means obviously he’s having to learn a bigger chunk of the game than a guy who just stands out on an Island and plays corner and he’s just playing man Corner man you know press man Corner um

For 60 snaps or 80 snaps you know on a game if he’s got to go over offense that tells me that he’s at least having to think the game the whole time and so that that’s always a great sign it tells me about their athleticism you know here

He is taking a wildcat snap again this is great these are Great Signs um as a as an evaluator and as a recruiter because it tells me if the guy’s taking a wildcat snap he’s probably the best athlete on your team um you know there’s

A reason we need to score and I don’t want the ball touching anyone else’s hands except for the guy that’s the most Dependable on our team so you love seeing that and um and so yeah there’s there’s some snaps where a a guy is uh is playing defensive back and um and

Then and also wide out when I see that right away I’m thinking okay this is a guy who at least is attempting to learn the game on on on a little bit of a higher scale than maybe a guy who just plays DV I know it was way back in the

Film Ben probably about two or three director Ben behind the scenes two or three minutes but you wanted to to Circle back to looks like a route he undercut when he was playing in in what would that be some sort of deep safety or deep Zone I should say a corner why

St out to you well there’s a there’s a lot of of these plays where again he’s ending with the ball in his hands which we love but and he’s he’s also playing with a 10 yards off um you know sort of bail technique and he’s just baiting the

Quarterback to make throws and then the quarterback does and he goes and picks off here it is he’s he’s 10 yards off here he’s there’s no sort of technique there and then he goes and he just makes a play on the ball that’s an athlete

Making a play and we’d love to see it but that that doesn’t fly at the college level yep I can’t watch that and then project that that guy’s going to be a good corner you know when I when I see that there’s nothing there redeemable from a college standpoint a a College

Corner could never get away with doing what he did on that play so I have to sort of discard that rep and what I can take from it is an athlete doing athletic things I can see how athletic he is I can see that he can catch you

Know I could see that he has the intuition to go break on a that was a seam route and he was responsible for the Deep third so I can see okay maybe he has good anticipation on knowing what the offense is going to do there so then

Maybe that’s why he’s baiting him and playing off um so thanks to our Dominic Robinson Tom Lang sorry to bring you back on camera so abruptly there Michael as your feeling the machine there but they’ve got plenty more breakdowns that will be available on our YouTube channel that

You all should check out uh as we did step away there for a brief minute BJ Gibson uh L McCoy these guys coming into the full here for Florida State y I think we might I think McCoy might have I biffed on it I’m sorry everybody I think miss him announcing His official

Commitment but looks like if we can pull him up on the screen now here looks like uh he’s got Florida State apparal on y so I’m going to guess that he’s gone ahead and announce his intentions to join tribe 2024 although he’s got family around him now so he’s got family and

The family is wearing FSU stuff too we’ll go we’ll take them full line I think I might be able to do that I love saying that back in television days Go full live look guys look slightly to your right I think they’re doing the photos yeah these are all the photos I’m sure

He’s uh made his commitment public here’s got other comments to say but Michael Shin cutting away M see I I woke up early I had my breakfast before I got on air uh Mike doesn’t have that luxury because he’s constantly on the phone all day for the last like three weeks so

McCoy announcing live from his high school his intentions to come to Florida State this on top of the heels of I think BJ Gibson as well did not have a live stream but perhaps tweeted it out um I think we’ve social that out on our accounts so okay Florida State bringing

In guys this class going strong as well as we entered the day I think Flor say was what they were fourth in the nation or maybe fifth in the nation so uh those guys that uh signed their names up and verbally committed now starting to send their nlis over you’re watching live

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Get through this together a Signing Day times these are not official official but these are what we were told earlier in the morning and we created this great graphic we being Ben Spicer Tom Lang um Jaden Todd Charles ler Elijah Moore Micah Dany still don’t know lne

McCoy not how to pronounce his name not that he’s going to be a Florida State seminal everybody Kai Bates they’ve all either announced publicly on a live stream or sent their letter of intent into Florida State BJ Gibson might not be far behind either so Jamari Howard jamori flag those are guys

That were also scheduled to drop at the 9:00 am hour and then at 10 o’clock we’ll start getting the first five star to make his decision that’s kind of been stradling the fence if you will but LJ McCrae is that’s that was one that Flor say was usually seemingly on the outside

Track on so it was always going to be a tough one to uh figure out but we’ll see never know maybe as one door closes another one opens so if KJ Balin indeed intends to go to Georgia then maybe resources are opened up for somebody

Else to get into the fold have you heard anything on Jonathan Daniels Michael everyone sees that 7 am. yeah 7 AM was more like time so it’s not that far behind but Kyle boo Deonte wondering what’s the word no there’s there’s nothing we’re just waiting for him to

Send it in there’s I mean we expect it to be in um there’s like I said they’re on a different time you know so and a lot of these times these these these things don’t go through I I know people we have the time on there when they’re

Doing it but these things the ceremony goes on it’s longer you know uh as far as you know they have to go through compliance and make sure everything’s cool you know when they do it um so they’re in so uh there’s a lot of different things that go on so it’s just

Because the time’s up there doesn’t mean it’s going to go exactly like right at that time you know but especially when you have ceremonies and I’m sure you know Daniels has a ceremony you know they might have had had a ceremony where they’re telling us like it’s 8 AM and

Then maybe it’s more like 8:30 you know or something like that you know so you know it’s uh it’s fluctuates it’s fluid it’s fluid in there as well with with ceremonies and stuff so the word of this signing period is fluid um you know who’s not fluid is

Luke croman Hawk let’s give it up for a guy like Luke croman Hawk right like yeah tweeting out that other schools are still at him and he’s like thanks but no thanks so we appreciate that um let me see here okay let’s pull up Marcus thank you Marcus I’m going give

You a little appreciation dollar dollar bills y’all it seems like we have a hard time securing Elite recruits what are your thoughts um no they don’t um they’ve got some Elite recruits in there um but there’s certain guys and certain recruitments where you’re battling BigTime programs that um

Were able to pull it off like I’ve said before KJ bol’s from the state of Georgia uh Georgia two-time division national champions um Armando blunts from South Florida in Miami uh that was a back and forth thing I don’t think it’s the closing problem I think it’s more just what matters in the

Recruitment for each guy and not everyone’s the same the the Rondo blunt recruitment was not the same as the KJ Bolton one um I don’t think there’s a closing problem especially with the guys they’ve added um I think it’s more so you know individual of of the recruitments like there were

Recruitments they got guys you know so when they got the top guys that they got when they flip the kai baates does that mean they can’t close for top teams is LSU not a top team you know it’s uh you know so I think you have to be careful

How you word it yeah they’re not a finished product no they’re not to that level yet um but at the same time they’ve closed with a lot of elite guys are really good players uh as far as this class uh whether KJ Bolton’s in it

Or not or you know not in it or whatnot it’s still really good class like it’s it’s it’s not as good as we anticipated and hoped uh and being a top five but I I think you have to be careful just because things are something didn’t go

Our way or the way for Florida State that all of a sudden there’s some closing problem I don’t think there’s any any I don’t think there’s any um I don’t think there’s a closing problem I think it’s you’re still in the process process of developing as a top

Tier program to get up there with the georgees are they there yet no but they’re close and uh I mean that’s the main way you know I would take it shout out to David Pearson people act like hem is some scrub yeah they they close on hem that was uh something that

We quickly forget but I understand everybody I understand The Angst let’s just Channel it to the right places here and not uh not slam the heart work of Michael all these months weeks years sometimes in the case of some of these guys that have been around forever here

And I don’t take that I don’t take it that way as long I mean I understand emotion so I I I get it I I have emotion sometimes too when it comes you know to different things but I mean you have to put proper perspective on on what they

Do and where they are and where they’re going um so I’m not like I said the portal has changed things totally for me of it’s different if you’re going after a Five Star Plus guy and then you lose him and and then you’re just done you can’t add anybody from the portal it’s

Like knowing you can add players from there to F the holes that you came upsh short and other teams do this too it’s not just FSU guess what Georgia loses kids too Alabama loses kids too they don’t get kids of every kid that they they have targeted um it happens

Obviously this one’s highlighted because this is the now uh you know with a guy like KJ Balton but um at the same time um you know they’re going to feel the void of what they need and and I know I get it there’s pain it’s a big loss and

All that stuff but you have to look at things in perspective of of where they’re going as a program you went from 10 wins to 13 you have 13 and0 um you obviously get the snub which I think I was more concerned of just recruiting an ramifications of it I didn’t think it’d

Be devastating but I thought it would be challenging for FSU because this is it puts them in a tougher position that they should have to be now most of the recruits have been like this is BS they’re ridiculous you know they’re they’re targeting FSU uh

You they just want to put a certain team in there so that’s how most recruits felt but at the same time it does have an impact and it’s something that the coaches have to overcome on the recruiting Trail but um they’re doing everything right there’s not a closing

Problem there’s not an nil problem sometimes kids just want to pick somewhere else you know or for whatever reason whether they feel comfortable location wise or whether uh that program just fits them better yeah listen I hope I probably did say it at some point in all my babbling

To not be upset but yall can be upset um I get it you know this is but it just it seemingly happens ever that’s my only kind of like retort you know like even Kirby misses out on some guys and that’s probably a bad example because you know things are

Trending towards you know KJ bowling going there but I get I mean I’m seeing these comments people are talking about this has been you know three years in a row it’s closing problems you know my thing I guess Michael is that you know it’s it’s like if you talk about oh it’s

A scheme like the coaches doesn’t have a good scheme okay well like expound then like what is what is bad about this scheme like what would you like the scheme to look like otherwise like I just don’t know what closing to me would probably be nil

So I can’t imagine that they’re as well healed and organized as they are on the nil front and everything is not falling their way because they’re somehow squandering that aspect of the recruiting like to your point Michael it’s just you know when they didn’t get jayen key last year I think most people

It was lot easier to digest because it was in the summer You’ brought Keon Coleman in You’ brought Jim Bell in Morlock Fisk you felt good about those guys verse was coming back Jordan was coming back so you had like you were taking this big picture perspective but

Right now we’re just focus so much on what’s happening today and this one specific player but like Jaylen key made sense to go to Alabama he had one year left Flor state was coming off a 10- win season good but you know Alabama was a little bit more proven and Nick sabbin puts

Defense backs into the first round of the NFL draft or the second round so like that made sense you could kind of understand that like KJ Bolin being from Atlanta Kirby being the defensive minded guy like you could maybe see that if you’re getting offered let’s say $100,000 and somebody’s like well we’ll

Give you like 75 but you’ll you know you can’t you can’t even outbid I don’t think what that would mean to somebody being able to stay at home and play for somebody they think that might be a little bit better of a fit for what they

Want to be at the next level right and I’m comfortable you know saying like if from what I’ve gathered the nil for FSU was higher like so it had nothing to do with nil sometimes kids just want to go somewhere you know Kirby Smart is a you

Know former DB you know he’s he’s played at Georgia uh certainly he is successful in winning championships and so that’s not a closing problem that’s that’s a problem where sometimes guys just favor the other ones like when they got hem Williams was that a closing problem he

Was a five-star receiver like you can’t you we can all pick and choose whatever arguments we want to point when they lose somebody but it’s like people forget the guys they landed you know flipping fourstar Kai Bates you know getting uh you know the strong defensive back group you know the players they’ve

Landed the DD Holmes you know fourstar defens event you know you it’s not there yet like where I think it should be as far as the standard of recruiting consistently every year um they need to do better at a lot of different positions and when he says closing I

Don’t think he’s just referring to N ason I think he’s referring to he feels like they could use better recruiters like that’s what I think he’s hitting at my opinion the the guy that put that little comment up there that’s my opinion and I’ve heard that from several

People and it’s a Justified point to a degree uh that hey you want to be better but um at the same time I say this I said this before the start of our show is do you want to have recruiting Awards or you do you want to win on the field

Um I can honestly say Bas I’m am very comfortable with all the coaches of what I see development Wise from the players you know what I see Odell speaks for itself development wise um certainly defensive ends we’ve SE the development Patrick Payton certainly what they’ve done with Jared first and

And these guys they’ve had there running backs phenomenal Yaks to killing it uh quarterbacks Tony toart certainly they did a hell of a job with Jordan Travis all that stuff you know so you could go through top to bottom of of development and and like I said I keep hammering

This point the portal guys they can get players from the portal they’ve done it every single year we know they’re going to do it again this year so whatever holes they have they can feel that yes does it need to be better in high school recruiting absolutely my standard is

Higher than what I’m what I’m seeing and obviously this day kind of you know confirms that um it wasn’t the day that they anticipated or that you hoped um certainly um when you lose guys it hurts but at the same time I can tell you this

Ason if they go out there and get let’s say the number one DB out there in the country off the portal H how much are we talking about KJ Bolton probably not as much you it’ll still linger but I think a PE I think fans are all in the the

Moment what’s happening and in the moment we’re happening it’s looking like KJ Bow’s likely going to somewhere else so and I get the sting of it but I think sometimes the emotions of people clouds what is actually happening in the recruitment not every recruitment is the same way I’ve told you guys amonda

Blunt’s not the same recruitment as KJ Bolton of the reason why um KJ Baldin is is very clear we’ve we’ve laid it out no sense in rehashing that Armando blunt same thing all these guys are it’s not because oh they thean iio wasn’t competitive or or um or stuff

Like that uh is there a closing problem as far as finish not really I I think the message is very clear 13 and0 product on the field development is very high culture is phenomenal Brotherhood officially visits everywhere I think uh they’re doing very fine is it as good as

You I want it to be no but is it a really good class absolutely to uh mre’s point so I think people need to kind of put some perspective on the day and what’s going on you’re watching sign Day live everybody on warchant TV hit the thumbs

Up over 4,200 of you watching us live 951 your boss doesn’t know so that’s awesome I’ll tell them if you guys are GNA be mean be angry like I said you guys Canna be angry it’s fine yeah I get I get everybody the closing issue they

Said three years in a row who did we lose last year Michael I know two years ago obviously with Travis Hunter but somebody was saying three years in a row you’ve lost the top guy in your class it’s not official yet either everybody again just there was just information coming Michael’s way

That Trends towards maybe something happening at one o’clock when KJ Balden makes his announcement so um trying to get defensive ended up going to Auburn I don’t know if he was I don’t think he was the highest no no was ranked higher than him but again guys not be angry understand I

I it’s kind of those one of those things where nobody remembers all the great plays you made they’re going to remember what plays you didn’t make uh and the keldrick faul one was certainly one and and but if you look individually into these recruitment you see why you know

It’s like Krick faul was from Alabama you know alurn he’ been flirting with auburn for a while um so it’s not it’s not inconceivable that he goes to Auburn um just like it’s not inconceivable that you know KJ bone could eventually end up at at Georgia you know um and then

Armond plants from Miami um you know a lot of pressure to stay home so these aren’t closing problems Guys these are just guys that that are in the area the specific reasons of of why they chose a school it’s like doesn’t mean that you can’t recruit and you just ignore all

The wins that FSU has like it’s just you can’t you can’t I mean I get emotion gets into it but people I think are too emotionally connected and they’re not looking at the full picture of each one of these recruitments and what FSU is adding on their team whether that’s

Portal or high school and uh I don’t know I I just think sometimes people and I I’m guilty of it too guys sometimes when something bad happens you’re looking to ma magnify it than than worse than what it is instead of looking at the grand scheme of things

And I’m I’m guilty of that as well but I I this is a very good class and uh FSU is going to be fine like I said they will attack the portal like I expect them to it should be a really really positive offseason for FSU again in the

Portal but I get the anger and upset that you’re losing a top player I get that you know I I can put myself in that fan point and understand people feeling that way but at the same time they’re going to be fine guys the class is going to be fine the team is

Going to be fine the roster will be fine and as I’ve always said in at the beginning do you want to win games or you want to win recruiting championships yeah that’s right that’s it right I mean that’s what comes down to do you want

Your team to be good or do you want to just stop pile Talent as far as recruits and here’s the thing too there’s no guarantee these kids stay at whatever school they go to there’s no guarantee that KJ Bolton his whole career at Georgia there’s no guarantee that arand

Blunt at Miami I’m not saying I’m thinking that FSU would go back after Rando blunt but we’ve already seen this like you many people went crazy when Marvin Jones went to Georgia where’s Marvin Jones now yeah Talahassee Florida Michael Langston okay so my point is you

Have to let these things go and the main thing is the roster what you’re building not so much like you know oh we got to get every high school kids or we we can’t lose any top kids you’re going to lose players you’re you’re competing recruiting is hard it’s not easy it’s

Not easy when you’re going against top Powers so you’re gonna get some you’re gon to lose some and uh then you can fill the void of of what you do in the portal they’re going to be fine all right all right okay all right um Jamari

Howard is on the clock yep I wish we had our I should have made like a ESPN draft music but we’ll get you out there live as soon as Jamari Howard’s ready to make his announcement we thank you for being here everybody the happy The Angry the

Indifferent all there in the middle um David Glitz is wondering when can portal guys sign with their respected teams anytime they want David uh anytime they want they can come on down portal is open itay stays open until I think the second and the thing is you can enter

Your name in until the second but you don’t have to commit until whenever you want so you can as long as you get your name in before January 2nd you can then ultimately end up going to a school so the portal doesn’t necessarily close I mean it won’t close for business but you

Can’t put your name in after the second so any kid because there’s a kid I think with the running back for Mississippi State I think is tentatively scheduled to come on an official visit like after that January 2nd Date so as long as your

Name is in now um you’re good so as long as your name’s in before the window you’re fine you know and then it can commit you there’s a certain like guideline between dates that you can commit that you have to be committed by and then you have another window I think

In May um so how about that uh Jamari Howard with the old school uh FSU logo on his uh nice Instagram I’m being told that case faucet faucet mhm has tweeted out that LJ McCrae will not be signing today high possibility there’s a high possibility so imagine if your team didn’t make it

To a bowl y had a coach that was taking you seemingly into the abyss and all you had was this one this one guy he’s hoping for and he’s like ah I might need to although I guess they’re going to get lagway but you know is lagway gonna end

Up winning a lot of games with Billy Napier in Gainesville who knows who knows probably makes you makes you wonder like if if LJ’s gonna actually take a visit to Georgia you with with the word with KJ so you don’t know uh that’s interesting I thought for sure he would stick with

Florida that’s kind of the the gist I was hearing uh you know everyone I think most people were hearing that LJ was going to stick with with Florida but that it ain’t just FSU guys it’s like that’s what I try to tell people this stuff is is is fluid and it’s not just

FSU that’s that’s hurting um i’ I’ve said it for it I’ll say it again you know um I would much rather win uh on the field than even with stuff I do I’m the recruiting guy but you want to win on the field the main thing is your

Roster and what you build with your roster as long as the roster is there you can you can work on the recruiting stuff you can fine-tune the stuff the what what’s going on Kevin Johnson LJ driving his price up that’s probably what I would do I mean

Like if if 40-year-old Aon had like the skill set of like 18-year-old LJ McCrae and it had like the knowhow of it like yeah like y’all football coaches better hope I never have a kid and he’s good at football because man well everybody will think everybody will have a silent

Commitment everybody will go to bed that night thinking that my kids’s coming to your school and then five minutes before the signing ceremon like I don’t know man just don’t know you can do like Charles Lester and say I’m doing it to 22nd and then just next thing you know

You’re you’re you’re sending in your your Loi you know five minutes later I’m gon to see if I can pull that up here can you can you is there like a personal I want to look up his wish list on Amazon just to see like it’s is it’s a

Real thing right like he has like Charles ler has an actual gift registry I think on Amazon I just want to see if I can actually pull it up to see what he wants dorm gifts are appreciated register on Amazon Charles Lester let me see is is everybody okay if we do this

Will this upset anybody if we actually I think I I I found it um I don’t know will this not be part of compliance we’re pull somebody has a real big you’re you’re on your own own here so I I’m I’m out of this territory I’m not

Sure on that all right let’s let’s see what our guy Charles Lester wants we need we all need to lighten up here for a minute as we wait for Jamari Howard to make his college announcement we’ll take you there live um when it does happen uh

We also need to pay homage to our guy um Joel Davis yes but let’s go to amazon.com everybody Charles Lester some dorm supplies I I have these I don’t have this color but I have these exact plates and bowls Charles so I appreciate your recognition of good style uh he

Wants a microwave he’s just like you and I everybody and just like your kids when they go off to college he wants an air fryer somebody already got him an air fryer he wants a humidify for his bedroom so he can sleep better look he does even want like the expensive

Stainless steel trash can he just wants a plastic trash can so he’s smart and prudent with his purchases I like this look at this this is all very reasonable stuff to want an 18-year-old kid Michael I’m proud of Charles he’s my favorite kid now in the class there you go I I

Love Charles like I’ve I’ve known Charles for a while uh it’s a great kid um and I had a lot of fun when I was over there covering his you know commitment announcement it was long but it was fun um I think he’s got a really

Good heart and I certainly I think he will bring a lot to that that locker room like from a positive standpoint that was the one thing I’d heard through my different FSU contacts that really attracted wasn’t just the talent it was just a kid that they had that they felt

Like he he he’s the type of player kind of a the hiking Williams type we heard that too you know I’m s the same thing so um I was pretty interested in the supplies but um you know kind of just you know liting the mood but uh yeah I I

Think the world of Charles I I have I have a lot of respect for him I know the people around him a lot obviously started his career at Sarasota Riverview then trans for defendant for his final year he stayed with Riverview until that final year um he won a chance to have a

Chance for a state championship and play in it and so um he did that obviously they didn’t work out in the winning but I think overall um I he’s a great kid absolutely every shout out to our guy Nick shout out to Charles III kid wants

To cook he does man I love it I love it this USS to be a new thing every single year by the way by the way shout out to D Rob that was a really good breakdown on Charles Lester uh if you’re not following that man go follow that stuff

I mean that guy D Rob does an incredible job T Els who does an incredible job is Joel Davis Joe D Joel I cannot give you I cannot give you the proper air horn because we have to save those for commits but Mike Breen says thank you yes um everybody’s probably yelling at

Him give that to battle’s end oh gosh trust me Joel’s helping out Joel’s helping out the cause every I think battle in’s doing pretty well guys I I feel confident in saying that Joel with five bills with Benjamin Franklin’s face on it you’re the man Joel he’s a pillar

By the way which yes maybe this will make it down to Miami I don’t know if we’ve been so hurt we haven’t even announced if we’re going to have like an official party down in Miami for the bowl game which we should there’s so many Florida State fans down there yes

But Joel Davis is a guy that’s constantly around here helping us out and um the father of Josiah who we we should get ji on the phone I feel like Jai is probably the voice of the fans right now and he’s gonna be emotional upset but he’ll be able to kind of

Really communicate how he’s feeling but Joel says Norvell will win with whoever he gets the trolls can’t stop what’s coming thank you orchant for all the hard work agree I think the main thing is having you want to have Joel on I think Josiah would be a little too emotional

Right now it’s like just a little bit too much thank you Joel you’re the man appreciate the heck out of you um Jonathan Cook Marvin Jones Jr went to Georgia to get two years of development and two bags where’s the LIE where’s the LIE yeah that’s true where where’s he at now

Exactly exactly Jonathan pointed that out to us we appreciate it thank you Jonathan we’ve seen Jonathan at these events I think we saw him in Orlando maybe before the bowl game before the che a bowl I don’t think I don’t know if it was for the LSU game but I remember

Seeing Jonathan out at these events maybe at the CP who knows Mike Daniel with 50 bucks in the jar that’s gonna get you a little bit of sauce yes thank you Mike just remember Stars aren’t the end all Beall when it comes to how talented a player is some

Of it is who they play I’m from Wisconsin how many of their great offensive linemen and defensive linemen are highly ranked trust this staff’s eval of players love you all heart emoji great Point Mike I love your name by the way obviously but uh Works some great points there uh and that’s what

I’ve kind of been solidifying and we all get caught in the motion of of losses but it’s about the roster you build you know at the end of the day that’s what it comes down to that the 85 is it 85 now Aon is that how many players you can

Have 85 8 85 so it’s the 85 that you put together doesn’t matter if it’s high school or college yeah or or portal you want to build your debt with high school and yes the the point is to land guys like KJ bow Armond blun all those guys

You want those every year but sometimes it’s just not going to work that way and and that’s okay you just adjust it to and pivot to what you need to get from the portal and uh they’ll be fine and the avows are what matter like do you

Rather have a guy that can recruit or you rather have a guy that can coach obviously we want you want both but if you had to choose one what are you g to do there’s a tweet from earlier from Hayes faucet about LJ McCrae and his

Status uh so we’ll see how that works out plenty of people still throwing um really just want to get their names here and get their voices heard so we get it um no top 100 defensive lineman in three years hoping for Jared verse or Germaine Johnson every year is dangerous says C

Black um I mean the first part of what he’s saying is is true like I will you know have no problem acknowledging that they have to do better and I’ve said that on these shows several times CAC that they have to do better recruiting High School uh defensive lineman you

Know top 300 defens lineman but at the same time if you’re gonna state that why don’t you mention C black that they got brandan Fisk darl Jackson all these guys from the portal these are top players you know so you’re right about that and they do need to do better in high school

But you can’t sit there and just ignore what they also added to that defensive line is there too many defensive lines that are better than fsus uh this past year probably not so um while I do think they have to do better as far as high school recruiting in at the defensive

Line it goes without saying you got to get top guys Odell has to get guys whoever’s there has to get guys but you also have to acknowledge what’s going on or what their roster looks like what what guys did they get from the portal that help them because the portal counts

Just the same as a high school kid last time I checked a high school kid is a player and a portal kid is a player they count the same it doesn’t matter who makes the plays they’re all the same um you know Conrad hussy is the same as

Jamie Robinson that came over it’s the same thing um so overall yes need to do better in high school but let’s not lose sight of what they’re doing also with the roster in general I wish I could pull up my phone our guy Josiah Josiah’s like too

Depressed over KJ I told you laughing emoji it’s a laughing emoji though everybody do I know do I know my dude or what I told you like you want to get Joe on because he’s too upset like uh we’re not we’re gonna we’re not I’m not going

To say we’re not talk about him any longer on the program for now it’s fine people got a little upset we’re talking too too long about KJ Balden we’ll keep you updated if we hear anything else coming across here Tom Lang will be joining you guys at the quarter hour mark here

Tom the dude doing the breakdowns with Dominic so he’s probably got some more insight into how these guys will be able to integrate into Florida State when they do arrive Mr Kool-Aid maker dropping 10 bucks in the jar thank you says you can’t get offensive lineman from the portal we have to recruit

Better in this area so what is needed to do that um Lucas Simmons is a guy that you feel good about they they recruited High School Jay his time Jaylen ear Jaylen ear’s the guy I’ve heard a lot about um certainly Lucas I think is going to be a

Phenomenal Talent um they’ve certainly recruited guys out of high school um now you don’t want High School guys starting as freshman um but you have plenty um I think they’ve done well in the portal as certain guys they’ve gotten from the offensive line is it is it a for sure

Fire guarantee no but you know they’ve gotten some talented guys uh they just have to do I I say this so much and people complain and whatever way you want to word it oh hey hey hey family show Family Show whatever way you want to word it um

But like you have to get the right guy you know and and and they do a really good job with that um I think they’re going to continue to do that I think they can get kids from the portal offensive line I mean they’ve shown it almost every year they’ve gotten guys um

And I I hear people say this all the time that the portal is not sustainable when you get gu uh absolutely it is you there’s guys every year it’s going to get bigger there’s more guys in the portal almost every year it’s a part of the process they’re a player just like

Anyone else yeah you want to Stack depth at certain places from the high ranks but you have to have that mixture of both well said Michael again Jamari Howard will try to pipe in that feed when it does happen if it does happen here um and we’re keeping you updated

Obviously over on warchant.com if you’re a firsttime member if you’ve never been a member of warchant.com I know you’re like ah this team sucks you know they’re 13 and0 but uh the team at warchant.com has got you covered so come on home for $54.99 for only one year full access

Everything on on three you check out all the other boards every other program Tim Scala Scala love him good guy I know it’s crazy but as a game passing by Odell I I Counterpoint i i i i lob the question back to you Tim my guy did you

Feel that way after Braden fisk’s thirdd tfl three weeks ago in Charlotte it’s all I ask it’s all I ask everybody it’s all I ask I mean from a development standpoint no way Tim like I’ll answer it for you no way from Landing high school kids maybe

Maybe I mean I guess he’s just all this Deon everybody like they were they were roommates guys like we’re not talking about like an absolute false but again I get I hope I’m not I’m not coming I’m coming from a place of like we’re ribbing we’re all

Having fun around the beers that we’re having at walk on at the bar after a game we’re all just talking because we’re all friends uh my opinion is no more valow than yours everybody that’s watching this but like we can you know I’m just I’m a Believer in Odell I I see

Him at practice when we’re out at practice can’t report what we see it practice anymore but we’ve been out at practice um and the way he coaches is just as intense as he did five years ago which was as intense as he was doing when I was interning for war chant so

But I understand though you know we need some other players of High Caliber to be able to get here and get integrated quickly so I understand uh but no Odell slander no more Odell slander what else do we got here we got so many comments it’s great I bet we

Do Benjamin hey good which Benjamin I love you man you’ve been that’s like your fourth Super Chat of the day man you’re you’re good you can Cruise the rest of the day you can just comment we’ll pop you up on the screen although it helps when you do the money because

It makes it a different color and it goes into a separate column so I can find it quicker so but we’re posting everybody’s comments because that’s how we are we’re a very egalitarian thing at War chain he says all we got all we need Mike knows what he’s doing one player

Does not make a team it is a team sport go NOS we appreciate that sentiment thank you very much so yeah looks like LJ McCrae probably not happening today anything on Landon Thomas his signing was at 10:00 a.m. wonders wait for for it uh it’s 10:00 a.m. it doesn’t mean

He’s signing at 10: a.m. just means the ceremony starts at 10: a.m. so keep that in mind a lot of these you know signings are 30 minutes sometimes to an hour depends on compliance getting everything transferred over when these names are official but um just because the name on

There says 10: a that’s the time that they’re going on it doesn’t mean that it’s happening like right at 10:00 a.m. I think it’s 10:13 right now Eastern Tanner time um so um just give it a few minutes and these things will come through guys like I said they’re they’re

Not like automatic like you’re ordering M ribic McDonald’s and you’re getting it in in two seconds like it’s it’s takes a little time for things to go through there’s no problem so if there’s an issue I will tell you but um like just keep that in

Mind again as you see there on the screen those are the scheduled ceremony times starts for several of these prospects again Jaden Dodd Jaden Todd rather Charles leser Elijah Moore Micah Dany have officially got their letters of intent received if I’m not mistaken here by Florida State lne McCoy Kai

Bates did their commitments live on their social media BJ Gibs is another guy who I think is officially received and in as well um as you can see Z miny Landon Thomas Camden frier coming up here in the 10 a.m. hour we’ll be going until at least 3 o’clock Jeff Cameron

Show takes over from 1 to 3 o’clock but y’all need more Tom Lang in your diet so let’s get Tom in here now working hard for you folks this entire time we’ve been doing this show let Michael and Tom give you some fresh perspective on what’s going on you’ve heard my voice

Plenty long enough Tom you’ve read all the comments hope you know what you’re getting into yeah man and I wish you godspeed and I will be here uh if I can help in any other way uh good to see you take it away my oh thank you brother

Appreciate it hi Michael how are you it’s been a long time since I’ve seen you yeah long time no see uh already busy day um I can say that I was told um you know I know we’re waiting on Jonathan Dan I was told it’s signed uh

But I I have not seen a letter of intent yet so we’ll wait for that but that’s kind of what I’ve been told we are watching you are enjoying we are living Michael and I walk on Signing Day live with the entire of the war chant staff

Behind the scenes and in front of the camera Ben Spicer is directing the program behind the scenes Matt ler is sitting in front of Adam scher’s background as they called it they deemed it earlier today uh just pining through all of the information mining through

All of it for all of us it has been a not so ideal start to the day for Florida State when you’re talking about the high-profile players that Florida state was either in on or were committed so Florida State they might be leaning one way or the other but there is no

Doubt that Florida state has gotten a lot better as a football program today even with the signatures that are already in players like Charles Lester Elijah Moore among others to the 4250 plus of you who are watching right now hit the like button underneath the video because we’re going live for another

Four and a half plus hours my goodness close to five hours here on Signing Day live presented by our friends at Walk-Ons I’ll give Walk-Ons some love in a little bit Michael I know that you you find uh they’re they’re food delectable but um I do what uh what would you say

Michael as kind of want to reset the program because there’s a question I’ve been asking from behind the scenes I understand where things are leaning with Five Star Plus safety KJ Bolden and it’s not in a good direction even though if you go to on3 do.com right now you see

That he’s committed to Florida state is this a dead and buried issue or could it still be fluid because it sounds like you’re feeling it’s it’s kind of already gone in in a Direction that’s a little bit Wayward I mean it’s trending towards that way Georgia but I don’t think it’s

Like completely done um certainly I know people are are making calls uh and talking um so I wouldn’t complete completely dead but I’d say it’s likely you know trending towards that direction um as as we talk about DBS as Jamari Howard has now sent his letter intent so

There’s that but um I think it’s more of a trending thing and I’m I’m probably gonna hop off here in a few minutes let you hit up with Matt and maybe see if I can find some more information y on that situation uh I’ll talk for f five more

Minutes and you can get Matt to pop in there but that that’s kind of how I feel with the situation right now Tom that’s understandable like Michael you know I’m of several Minds here I fully agree with you that Florida State in general doesn’t have a a closing problem because

There are a lot of high-profile players of high four stars and five stars that have signed with Florida State over the last several classes I was also sitting with you when uh Travis Hunter tossed the Hat on the floor a couple of years ago so I do remember what that felt like

To me Michael I think it it boils down to a couple of things you feel good about where Florida state is from a an nil perspective you’ve been you know beating that drum loudly yes uh you feel generally good about what Florida state is doing at skill positions on both

Offense and defense you feel good about what they’re doing in the portal like a lot of things that you’re stacking that are positive there might just be a place or two if you’re talking about position groups and you’re talking specifically maybe High School where you’re saying all right that’s got to get better

That’s got to get tightened up a little bit it’s not that they can’t account for it in the portal usually do but you don’t want to have to live and die on the portal every single year is it fair to say Michael at that point that maybe

A position or two they there’s got to be improvements on on being able to close Talent like maybe defensive line if you’re talking broadly absolutely uh I’ve I’ve beat that drum a lot that you have to get better uh you know certainly development is great um you but you have

To have guys that ultimately pull guys in from high school you can’t have three years where you don’t get a top you know 100 or 150 or two 300 player um to be fair they did get KJ Samson last year he’s a four-star defensive line and defensive tackle um so there have been

Talent but it needs to be more consistent in my opinion uh so that’s something they’ll have to address that to see where it’s going because it’s like yeah development’s great but um that needs to improve and and and and I think I’m glad you worried that way Tom

Because there is certain areas that they do need to find to you know what they’re doing is not as good find out what the problem is what what the issues are is it is it the message at the end is it something um you know from a a

Recruiting pitch that people are using against them that they need to counter um just something is missing as far as you know getting uh you know certain guys at that position whether it’s defensive line whether it’s defensive end or um more so defense tackle I’d say I think defensive

End they’ve gotten some guys so yeah there’s some areas that you can get better um you know linebackers another one that we don’t hear as much yeah um that you have to finish better you know um they have one right now and you know it’s certainly a position that you have

To find to and see what’s working and address it and kind of see where you can go from there but like I said before you know you can get players in the portal yes that’s sustainable but you also have to get those high school kids because those guys are ones that

You can develop at your own pace you don’t have to you can go and some some are ready to play and some aren’t but you you still high school is very important so that’s kind of the next step and and I think what today shows us

If things do go the way KJ Balton looks like I think it tells you like they’re close but there’s still a process of growing of where they need to go they’re not quite yet to that Georgia level but they’re close they’re right there um certainly one of the top teams in the

Country but they’re not to the point where every year like when they get a kid okay it’s done you know uh he’s signed and you’re good to go so I think they’re not at that point yet even with a 130 season you have to show competitive stuff every year Georgia’s

Been good for like what six seven years so uh I think it’s a thing where there’s still growth for this program to go higher um certainly they do kill it in the portal every year and I think they’ll do that again but um certainly from a high school in positions uh I

Think there’s areas they can get better last question I’ll ask you before you go M for more tell Michael like there’s no doubt this is my own personal statement linebacker High School recruiting has to get better it feels like Blake Nicholson is more of the exception not the rule

And and that’s a great get but there’s gota I mean come on we’re Florida freaking State it’s got to get better there but with the Odell Hagen thing I’m curious because I heard your conversation with Aon before I jumped on you know everybody talks about Odell

Like he’s 85 years old here uh he is a peer of Deion Sanders you know Dabo is within two years of age of of Odell Hagen like you don’t think of it that way because Odell is is like a lovable grandfather but I feel like he’s been

That way since he was in his late 40s so is the reputation about Odell’s AG an overblown topic on message boards or do you think it’s something that is being knocked when it comes to uh other schools recruiting against Florida State for interior D lineman I don’t think

It’s necessar his age it’s how long he’s been at FSU you know that’s that’s the thing that’s what I feel like I feel people use that against against him like how long is he going to do it cuz he’s been there so long the Age part comes in

Where the length of his career at FSU I don’t know how many years he’s up to it’s a lot uh as far as being at FSU so I think that’s the part where they get used to get some on the recruiting Trail is you know other schools are using like

Well he’s not going to be there for your whole career they can’t say anything about the man because outside of a very select few nobody’s put more guys in the NFL than than Odo hains you know as far as develop uh we saw that this year with an incredible defensive line they were

They’re unreal uh Fisk was Unreal all these guys were unreal that’s why the guy it’s why I think they do so well in the portal because guys know what they’re getting they’re going to get developed you have to do all the pitch and recruiting stuff U but um yeah I

Think there’s there’s parts to it of of schools using that for a high school kid and with a high school kid you’re talking about four years so it’s like that’s a long distance away from if that guy’s going to be there so sometimes it’s Merit it works um but I don’t know

It’s just something I think FSU will have to address of you know is this working or is there something we can adjust to do this to help it uh help our defensive line recuit they got to do something to change it because they tried this for three years and it’s

Obviously the plan for high school is not working so they have to come up with something that is a more sustainable plan as far as getting some of these top defensive linemen in here um get some really good defensive tackles for the high school Market they came close a few

Times this year but there’s obviously something missing of that final touches to get it done get it signed get these guys in here from a high school standpoint we’ll get back with Michael Langston a little bit Michael thank you very much for the information in 30 seconds we will return with warchant

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Matt ler what’s going on from Texas warchant Texas headquarters uh it’s an interesting morning so far Matt what are your initial thoughts on the first two and a half hours of this broadcast and what’s happened since we came on the air feels like a KJ Balden funeral doesn’t

It uh it uh you know it pen still hasn’t hit paper like Michael said there’s still uh there’s still stuff going on behind the scenes Anything Can Happen we’ve already seen Charles Lester try to play games with us earlier this morning than sign uh not trying to be optimistic

Because it’s trending towards Georgia for KJ but it’s still anything can happen and we’ve seen anything happen here already yeah exactly you don’t want to be a state sponsored media that’s every everything is always positive all the time but then also you don’t want to be completely negative all the time because

The truth is somewhere in the middle we’ve seen Matt in the last 15 20 minutes or so that Florida State finally confirmed a couple of signings I know there’s an updated graphic on the signings that have been received in house by Florida State you’re seeing

That on the ticker in the bottom as well but here it is the official signings board uh Jamari Howard I think Matt uh with how long that ceremony was going to go for his signing they’re probably still giving out season awards uh so he just said the hell with it I’m I’m going

To send this into Florida State let’s confirm it so Florida state has a four-star defensive back in Jamari Howard we saw L McCoy’s ceremony that was interesting like he was he was live and then I think he went off the air so he could sign and then they came back on

Wearing Florida State gear so Florida State uh has a four-star wide receiver and lne McCoy these are two confirmations from Florida state that have come down again in the last 15 to 20 minutes or so and then the list of signes from earlier in the day include

BJ Gibson Kai Bates Charles Lester the aforementioned Matt said he was playing games for about five minutes four-star wide receiver Elijah Moore who’s a player that I really love four-star running back Micah Dany Florida State’s kicker of the future and three star Jake Weinberg and then the first s of the day

Offensive lineman Jaden Todd a large body to work with for Alex Atkins Matt I’ll give you the floor here maybe a story line from one of those kids or a couple of those kids because you’ve covered on the ground and you’ve watched this process of being able to get these

Kids on the field or on the practice fields for maybe a junior day all the way through today uh what do you think about any of those kids who have signed and are officially Florida State seminal go ahead uh I think everyone’s Gonna Love Elijah Moore is my top one out of

That list so far it’s not just how good he is because he is really good um he performed well at Elite Camp over the summer uh but also his personality this is someone who is very good on camera kind of thing where it’s like he’s fun

To talk to uh like a Jared verse or something everyone always and always uh thanks Chang uh everyone always uh loves watching Jared verse talk and how much he talks on the field I think Elijah Moore is very similar to that to where it’s just going to be fun and a lot of

Fans are sorry are gonna connect with him uh BJ Gibson’s also a good kid really like him he’s all about the work um him and dugans have been very tight he hasn’t wavered at all L McCoy is one that we thought a while ago we like H

Maybe he might flip at one point and then he came back and I think he went to a game and then he stuck also really like him but I’m still sticking with I think Elijah Moore out of the kids who have signed right now is going to be

Everyone’s favorite we’re gonna run in a few minutes a clip of Kai Bates and uh it’s Dominic Robinson’s breakdown of Kai Bates but before we do that Matt just I’m curious you said the turning point was the Orlando game against LSU this is a kid that Florida State flipped from

LSU it it took a while he was he was uncommitted for a little bit but everybody kind of knew where it was going the moment that he said I’m opening things back up uh what was it about Florida state that got Kai Bates to to turn the tide was it simply

Beating LSU on the field was it a relationship maybe with Coach San or somebody else how did Florida state land a quality player like Kai Bates I mean honestly I think it’s a little bit of everything there obviously when you’re committed somewhere and you see them

Play in your hometown and get beaten by a place you chose them over it’s not like a great look that’s not a good feeling it’s like going to it’s like if you go into the portal go to a new team then get beat by your old team that’s

Not a good feeling except he still had the chance to change his mind and did uh yeah he’s got a great relationship with Caine once he opened it back up it was between Florida State and Tennessee I remember him saying Mike Norvell is also someone he talked to a lot and which

Isn’t something you hear about it but not something a whole lot with like Mike norell hits up these kids every day that’s normally goes down to the position coach but he was also very tight with him as well we’ve got breakdowns here that are going to air on

The channel on warchant TV if you haven’t subscribed to us yet it’s absolutely free to subscribe to the channel hit the like button underneath the video but there’s going to be a series of videos for Florida State’s top signes in which our own lead football analyst Dominic Robinson breaks down

What it is they’re going to bring to the table to Florida State and just how ready are they to contribute right away or might it be a little bit more time before they make their Mark at Florida State so here are Dominic Robinson’s thoughts on Florida State’s one of

Florida State’s newest defensive backs in Kai Bates another installment of breaking down defensive back play for Florida State’s 20 24 signing class this time it is with Kai Bates a former LSU commit that Florida state was able to flip late in the cycle alongside Dominic Robinson the lead football analyst here

At warchant TV warchant.com my name is Tom Lang and these features are specific to breaking down what we see on the clips from high school players and using Dominic’s expertise to project what they can bring to the table at Florida State in the years to come so Dominic when you

Look at Kai Bates this particular defensive back what do you think what what do you see what stands out you know of all of these guys that Florida State signed I keep the one of the constant things that keeps showing up is these bigger body Supreme athletes um I don’t

Even know what his height and weight are he definitely doesn’t seem heavy but I you you’ll see his arms are in incredibly long and all of these guys um every defensive back that was signed all have incredibly long arms I mean you could see him in those white sleeves you

You could see his arms are are really long um so I I see that the other thing I saw right away that I love he’s catching footballs right away off the bat it’s it you know the the first three Clips are are you know him catching catching the football um you know the

Thing that I I I would caution myself um in terms of evaluating him is I definitely think the technique that he’s playing so here he’s playing press man this is a good press man rep um you know you can see he’s very proficient in in that technique but a lot of his Clips

He’s playing right there if you can go back to the start of that Ben he’s playing in a position that I call Dead Man’s Land when you are not in press but you’re not in off you’re in dead man’s land so that’s like anywhere past a yard

And a half and anywhere under uh three yards you can’t press a guy from there especially at the college level and and you can’t and you’re not playing off and you’ll get ran by and you’ll see you see that that wide out right there just ran

Right by him he ends up you know make having a makeup speed that will happen a lot in high school that will not happen in college that will be a touchdown um you know six points going the other way so that you you know a lot of these

Clips I was I was getting a little frustrated with his coach that’s allowing him to line up there on on a lot of these snaps and um but we love to see the the the wide receiver Clips I love um again you see speed you see athleticism you see ball skills you see

Change of Direction and then more than anything it’s a guy who has to learn the offense and if a guy has to learn the offense um he’ll be a better Defender he’ll have a better understanding of what the teams are trying to do to him

And um you know you can you can speed up the learning curve that way in college if a guy know knows has knowledge of of offense because that’s what a lot of the teaching is is we’re going to do this based on what they do you know when they

Do that and so a lot of guys will struggle with that that learning curve because they’ve never been they’ve never looked at it from an offensive perspective if they only played defensive back just watching some of these clips Dominic it looks like somebody who tracks the play well not

Just the ball with the ball skills but he’s aware of what’s going on around around him and uh at and also I’ll add something really quickly He’s listed by on three at 61 a half so he’s got the wingspan but then also the height to go

Along with it I know it’s it’s just you know short clips and the short spurts here but do you see what I’m what I’m kind of talking about where it seems like he understands what the offense is trying to do on a give him play well I love you bringing that up that’s

Actually a great question because the last note that I had on him is that this guy may be a plus plus coverage safety and a safety has to be able to do that thing that you just said which is track the play well not just the ball or the

Man that I’m guarding or where a coach told me to be sometimes the play will dictate you need to be over here um and and that may not be the man that you’re guarding you know uh that may not be where the ball is going if you’re

Responsible for cut back I can’t run to where the ball is going I gotta be I got to be back here in case it cuts back type of thing so that’s those are attributes that I think he has a lot of attributes that make me think that this

Is a guy that like you’re talking about an off theart safety um when you have a guy that is a proficient as a corner but now you put him at safety he has much better matchups um in terms of one-on-one you know if he’s going

Against a tight end or a lower end wide out and he has the ability to track the play and go make a play because he has great ball skills because he played offense and he can communicate because of his offensive knowledge you know you’re I I think this is a potential um

And I don’t know again I don’t know anything about the way that he was recruited I’m just watching the film and going I could see where this guy could eventually be like a plus plus covered safety because most safeties can’t cover the way that um you know he’s he’s a

Pure Corner that could move to safety or be in a in a nickel or dime package where he’s where he’s playing safety and has the physicality to do that also so we’ll take it to the scouting as well this side of it this is Dominic Robinson’s scale of Readiness for

College and what he sees from high school to college not necessarily about 40 times about uh star rankings this is about a scale of of Readiness and polish in the game how ready are you for Saturdays versus Fridays so Dominic as it applies to this scale you’ve created

What do you think about Kai Bates yeah I have Kai at a 2.5 he’s definitely ready um you know physically moves really well um but just like I said earlier technique wise I feel like th that’s going to have to be developed and it’s hard because you when me as an evaluator

I don’t know him personally I don’t get to sit down with him and have conversations with him about football um so different guys pick up on the things that they need to to make that transition faster than others um so he could be higher than a 2 five in terms

Of um you know uh his actual contribution but I definitely think he’s a college Ready Player but he has multiple elements of his game and I also say if he’s going to be a safety you know with that position change that will take a little bit longer for him to get

Out on on the field um but he has the physicality to to do it you know his physical attributes are good enough to do it but he’s got some technique issues that are going to have to clean up and then he may have to you know learn a new

Position to get him on the field you know sooner um but long term you know he may be a guy that like I said he could be an absolute stud at safety um just based on the little bit of film that we’re able to to to look at on huddle

We’re break that was Dominic Robinson the lead football analyst for warchant.com warchant TV with his thoughts on Kai Bates a good get for Florida State Matt ler there’s been another name added to the list of official signes uh since we aired that feature that would be defensive lineman

Jamori flag from Booker T Washington uh tell me about jamori and some of the circumstances of his recruitment now that Florida state has landed a three star defensive lineman 63 285 pounds yeah like you just said he’s a he’s a big dude um but if you uh he’s been

Locked in for a long time just looking at his profile he’s been committed since before I was working at warchant almost a year ago or over a year ago now a year ago yesterday uh since he’s been committed to Florida State so he’s been

Locked in a long time um I like him he’s not going to be a guy that sees the field right away obviously uh compare him more to like Samson this past year where he’s probably be scout team but he’s going to develop um we’ve always heard Odell talk good about Samson

Odell’s a wizard when it comes to development so this is someone who we could see end up being good in the long term that makes sense KJ Samson towards the end of the year looked pretty impressive Y and that bodess well for Florida State so if that’s the comp

That’s obviously a good place for Florida State to go we’ve seen you know uh there have been a couple of delays today in terms of Signing Day against the schedule I’m going to pull that up right now but in this 10: a.m hour there have been reports now from on three that

Five-star defensive lineman LJ McCrae it’s highly likely that he is not going to sign today which uh that is bad news for Florida don’t know who it’s good news for just yet but that would be definitely bad news for the Florida Gators if LJ McCrae is not going to

Follow through and sign now if there any updates on that we will keep you a breast of the situation for LJ McCrae uh Z meny probably not a Florida State consideration at this point in the 10 a.m. hour but you never know Landon Thomas a Florida State commit at the

Time the number one tight end in the country when he flipped from Georgia to Florida state in the 10 a.m hour also expecting Camden frier and then uh Jonathan Daniels is one of those names that lingers from earlier on in the day I mean Matt as you’re looking at the

List and maybe some of the names that I just mentioned anybody that stands out is either a good good get for Florida State or a fun storyline uh in terms of some of the guys that are about to submit their uh nlis uh we’ll go with Camden frier the

Legacy I mean I have a Sports Illustrated of his dad on my wall at home so it’s uh that’s that’s a really cool one uh he’s also been locked in for a while it was really cool on his OV when he came back uh wearing vintage FSU gear 93 specifically all weekend um

That’s a cool one obviously Luke at 11 we all know Luke we all love Luke uh great kid going to be a very good quarterback down the road uh presumably at this point starting after Brock Glenn who knows down the road there could be a uh little battle yeah for sure and then

Of course what Florida state is uh potentially trying to do in the transfer portal too with either a cam Ward or DJ U young gele uh you know actually out of curiosity let me pivot to the portal real quick because you were able to grab an exclusive interview with Cam himself

After he left campus this past weekend and he seemed seemed like he was very impressed with what Ford State brought to the table now Matt that’s already kind of self-evident you’re not going to show up on campus as a transfer unless you’re interested and impressed by what

A program is doing but as it pertains to perhaps the the quarterback of the now for Florida State if Cam was to say yes what were what was your sense of uh how he enjoyed Florida State why he’s interested in Florida State and where it

Stands uh I think he really liked it I think the biggest part of it was the fact that it feels like a college town Tallahasse is a college town U Miami obviously doesn’t that feel other place he’s looking at and that kind of when I talked to him on the phone he compared

That to Pullman Washington where it was more close-nit college town um he was also very tight with Tony toar since uh he entered the portal he said he talked to him on the phone before uh and then obviously looked like every single time we saw him outside of Moore he was with

Uh coach to cars so that seemed to have started a good relationship I honestly think he’s before we said before all the visits we said uh dju was the number one Choice uh currently I’m going with Cam Ward as the number one choice and that if he doesn’t come here we’re going with

Dju and I think I heard you say it on one of the streams this past week and there’s been a lot of them that it feels like dju is the uh if you want me I’m here kind of thing um I I agree with

That to the point of if we don’t get Cam Ward DJ is a very very good option to have as a backup there as well it felt that way now you were there I mean you were there all day on Sunday in and around uh the mo Center in and around

College town where there’re couple of interviews but it seemed like DJ’s assessment was I could get used to this I could get used to being the quarterback at Florida State University you would agree with that because again you felt it more than we watched it through a a camera lens yeah for sure

Maybe it was The matso BLT dip he had a breakfast or something like that but uh yeah definitely he uh I mean you saw in the interview afterwards he was talking about the history the legacy of Florida State he’s obviously played here uh that’s a question I wish I would have

Asked is like how is that like you’ve played in the stadium you’ve seen the environment how’s that affect it but obviously didn’t get that I think that has to play something into it uh but yeah the feel there is great he obviously loved it um he hung out with

Uh Derek Ray a lot and he has ties to Oregon State in the past because he used to uh be there so a lot of connections there and I think he would be a great fit I honestly personally I think I’ve said it on the board once or twice I

Think he’s a better plug-and play to the offense than cam Ward and we’ve talked about it it’s just because the way the offens is and what they’ve come from yeah Jonathan Smith’s offense at Oregon state is as multiple as Mike norvell’s and it’s got more Pro Style Elements to

It I think it’s a natural fit as well you know it would be nice Matt if if one of the two quarterbacks this is just me editorializing but if you could announce that perhaps it helps push some things over the finish line here on the national Signing Day for the high school

Recruits because a lot of these guys think they’re going to play immediately I know that there is one uh large wide receiver out there that Florida state was in on into late last night that would be Jeremiah Smith who’s signing ceremony is after lunch today we’re

Right at noon it’s supposed to be so we’ll get word in that 1200 PM hour seems like overnights last 12 24 hours things had gone from man Florida State’s maybe gonna do this thing to uh well Ohio State might hold on to Jeremiah Smith uh give us a recap on that yeah so

I mean you guys if you watched last night saw my pick that was pre-recorded so I didn’t know anything about Ohio State Michael at that point in said Florida State 2 and then switched a little bit this morning um again I thought Flor State at all the momentum

Going into today you obviously had the last visit he hasn’t I don’t know the last time he’s been to Ohio State I can’t think of it off the top of my head but he’s seen Florida State play multiple times since the last time he’s gone to uh

Columbus the main thing here I again it’s just Brian Harline a good wide receivers coach can develop that’s what you’re dealing with it’s not nil in my opinion it’s none of that he’s even said it I’ve seen it on Twitter today that he’s even said that money isn’t the end

All Beall in his recruitment uh it’s more about getting to the NFL um so right now from what we’ve heard obviously it’s an Ohio State lean that he sticks there um like we said with KJ some things could be going on behind the scenes you never really know but right

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Today’s presentation of Signing Day live here on warchant TV so again over the next hour we’re going to see several signing ceremonies and get some announcements from Florida State here are the names that have already already faxed in shipped in I don’t know what they do these days maybe scan and send

Uh their nlis or their letters of intent as they used to be called Jamari Howard lne McCoy those have come in the last half an hour that’s a four-star defensive back and a four-star wide receiver BJ Gibson Kai Bates another combo of wide receiver defensive back Char Lester who gave everybody a heart

Attack for about five minutes I think even on the warchant group slack and group text uh that he was going to wait until Saturday or uh sign on the 22nd but then have the ceremony on Saturday that didn’t happen Charles leester is in the fold fourstar wide receiver Elijah

Moore 6 foot4 was very interested in Ohio State himself but Florida state was able to pry him away out of Maryland four-star running back local product Makai Dany here in Tallahassee the kicker of the future in Jake Weinberg for Florida State offensive lineman Jaden Todd and then the most recent

Edition was defensive lineman jamori flag uh you know Cam Davis is not going to surprise us a little bit later Matt and that’s uh one of the Bellows of the class uh a wrecking ball of running back who played a lot of quarterback in high school because he was the best player on

His team but the future of Florida State’s running back recruiting when you have a player like a cam Davis and then a Speedster like a Makai Dany I know there’s a lot of players that have entered the portal of late for Florida State that’s one hell of a one-w combination

That they’re bringing in today oh yeah definitely and like Dany is the next Lawrence toili and that’s what kind of I think brought him to Florida State too is like that’s how they marketed it uh to him and we’ve talked to him about it too he’s excited really excited to get

Into that role Cam Davis he’s gonna be a great leader on this team whether it’s in the first year or if when he actually gets on the field more he is a great kid um talks to everyone he’s one of the few guys that when he arrives at Mo he makes

Sure to shake all of our hands they don’t have to talk to us when they walk in but he always shakes all of our hands and says what’s up always make sure to give a chop and we need a picture of him uh great kid like super athletic

Obviously you said he played quarterback um I didn’t even know know he played quarterback for a long for the longest time and then I looked at his film and I was like wow this kid is actually slinging it like wow maybe maybe there’s uh maybe there’s some trick plays there

Like the deban versus LSU coming soon yeah and he’s also a hell of a baseball player too there’ll be a breakdown uh if and when he signs from our own Dominic Robinson but the Dominic’s got a history with him all the way back to uh Elementary School where he was one of

The top Under 12 baseball players in the country so Florida state would be landing if and when Cam Davis uh signs and sends it in to Florida State an excellent player you know Matt that’s another thing that people don’t hear about a lot you on a signing day it’s

About who did you get and that’s the most important thing don’t get me wrong well when it comes to dealing with the kids behind the scenes and either you’re texting with them you’re calling with them they’re here on campus they might be here for a showcase maybe some of the

Guys that have stood out in Florida State signing class so far to you uh that are unique and people the fan fan base the people here are going to like uh obviously we just said Cam Davis uh when dealing with him behind the scenes is’s awesome like when I texted him on

Monday to try to get his uh ceremony time I think he answered with literally within 30 seconds um great kid another one I have to look at the list so I know I’m a big Ricky Knight fan uh he’s a he’s a fun kid uh very easy to deal with uh good kid

Really fun he’s always been talkative and one of my favorites to talk to um if you pull up the list I can see I’ll pull it up on here I it’s hard to come names come to mind there we go uh Charles Lester is fun he uh obviously he

Likes to play the games like we all saw giving us heart attacks I think what happened there was that he does have a party slash like a signing slgo away party scheduled for Saturday that he’s tweeted I think he wanted to make it public there but then uh Flor State put

It out is what really happened uh that’s what just me like scrolling around trying to see like what was this kid trying to do Dany again we just talked about him another really good kid he’s he’s quiet you’ll probably see on um whenever we do these newcomer interviews

Who’s quiet and who’s talkative uh Dan’s very quiet but he’s someone who I’ve heard behind closed doors is a great kid once you get to know him and actually are close with him got a question in the chat just now about when is the next signature uh well like we just got it

Fla State just got it and this is a big time get for the nolles this is Landon Thomas Landon Thomas the tight end the signature is in he is officially a Florida State seminal that is a big time Boon for Florida State to finish the job

There uh that’s going to be a feature Matt that I’m excited excited for everybody to see on the channel because landed Thomas skill set for what Mike norell asks out of his tight ends the multifaceted nature with which they play he’s got really two different types

Landon Thomas can kind of do it all and I’m sure that his reputation amongst fellow recruits was pretty high as you were covering uh this recruiting class this year yeah for sure he’s a he’s awesome he’s um allaround awesome tight end I like you said how norval likes to

Use him something I like about him too is he actually loves blocking like his favorite thing to do isn’t to go out and catch pass it’s to block which I think if you hear any press conference from any floorida State coach uh that’s what they want right you want someone who’s

Gonna block first and put their team on their back not when they’re in the spotlight and that’s something Landon loves doing uh we’ve been up I went up and watched him practice with Michael uh earlier on in the season uh fun to watch fun kid to talk

To he can be a little quiet at times but he’s he’s gonna be really good here 6’4 238 pounds of course as the day goes along Florida State releases the Heights and the weights of players uh officially with what they check in but uh that is

The frame and he and you’re right Matt he’s got the attitude that you need as a player here at Florida State you’ve seen the culture shift in the last few years in terms of how wide receivers block you know Micah Pitman was one of the first

To really take that on uh but with a tight end room as well that was something that people were crying about and rightfully so you know for the first part of Mike norvell’s tenure but then that room has flipped in the last year when you get a Jem Bell and you can

Feature him and you bring in a Kyle Morlock uh you know recruits take notice and I would imagine I would venture a guess this is speculation on my part but when you bring in a guy like Jem Bell and he produces in Morlock that only solidifies Landon Thomas opinion of

Florida State and what he can do in this offense because the proof is in the pudding now for Florida State a position that was a question mark is now solid in terms of reputation would you agree yeah and they’re both South Georgia Boys so that helps even more yeah that’s

True that makes a lot of sense so uh Landon Thomas now that signature is in for Florida State you can cross him off the list to the good guys uh we had the list updated before Landon Thomas and here it is uh in fact it is just updated

Now director Ben doing Yan’s work behind the scenes uh but a bunch of blue chippers here to Florida State so far today uh this is about 3 hours into the live stream we’re going until 3:00 this afternoon warchant TV will be your home for signing Day live powered by our

Friends at walk- on Sports beastro uh it will be a warchant TV exclusive until one o’clock this afternoon but then beginning at one o’clock the Jeff Cameron show takes to the airwaves it is this exact same link you do not need to leave anywhere and then the JCS is going

To drive this bus all the way through to three o’clock so Landon Thomas adds his name to that list here were the Signing Day times uh again these things are always fluid as is recruiting in general but for the most part the guys on the left side of the graphic have indeed

Signed for Florida State Jaden Todd is the second man on that list he was the first Loi in the building nli in the building for Florida State Charles Lester Elijah Moore Micah Dany yes yes yes yes lne McCoy Kai Bates Howard BJ Gibson jamori flag we’re pretty much on

Schedule here just on the left side of the column we’re waiting on offensive lineman Jonathan Daniels out of Pensacola and then in addition to that you see third from the bottom on the left fstar defensive lineman LJ McCrae on Three’s Hayes faucet tweeted out I’d

Say what do you think Matt about a half an hour ago ises that sound about right to you probably probably about a half an hour ago that it’s highly possible quote unquote that LJ McCrae does not sign today now I think there have been maybe some confirmations out there to fortify

That case but LJ McCrae leading into signing day was a Florida commit and I believe Matt had him going to Auburn on Signing Day and Michael Langston said he’s gonna stay with Florida well it sounds like he’s gonna do neither because if he’s gonna wait until February to sign it’s anybody’s ball

Game again uh for LJ McCrae so that would be another devastating blow to the Florida Gator recruiting class which uh has been falling apart bit by bit over the last few weeks I know they had just another player uh safety I believe flipped to Texas in the last day or two

That kid that kid who flipped is from about 20 minutes from where I am so yeah Hometown pressure got to him huh yep yep yep yeah and then I don’t know anything about uh lagway just yet there were a lot of reports that DJ lagway was considering Texas A&M and I forget one

Other school maybe USC it might have been Houston surprising yeah yeah that would be very surprising no reports there at least that I’m aware of at this moment that there’s been a flip but uh Florida recruiting which was number two or number three in the country just a

Couple few months ago uh has gone like their football season five and seven and kind of into the gutter Florida state has not had an ideal start to the day going to be on balance here in walk- On’s Signing Day live it has not been all roses for Florida State but it’s

Been a successful day so far if you’re talking about improving your football team uh the latest developments for Florida State Intel on wide receiver Jeremiah Smith who is set to sign at about high noon on the East Coast roughly speaking uh it went from if he’s

Going to flip he’s going to flip to Florida State and that might just happen to apparently Ohio state has been very aggressive down the stretch to try and lock it down so the lean for Jeremiah Smith in short is Ohio State then as it pertains to KJ Balden the latest wave of

Information has been a surge for Georgia out of nowhere I mean Matt maybe you can establish the timeline in fact I know you can better than I but it feels like in the last few days if there was good going to be noise for KJ it was mostly

Surrounding Auburn not his home state in Georgia but make sense of of where we stand with KJ Balden if you don’t mind yeah so as for the timeline it was always it always felt like he was gonna flip this past two weeks I would say it

Was going to be Auburn he visited there I want to say the Monday before the Monday before that his official visit uh went took that visit to Auburn as his last visit there obviously uh there were also rumors while he was at Florida State that he was going to go visit it

Sunday night uh that he told us that wasn’t happening uh in his interview afterwards right after he told us he intended to sign with Florida State um but after he said that he then went uh well I can’t really speak on that right now so obviously that wasn’t super

Confident um right now as it stands George alen um I’m sure Michaels on the other side of the screen still Gathering info on that yep um it it is what it is at this point but again it’s all still fluid I think we dove in too much of

Thinking it’s a done deal I think it’s still fluid right now anything can happen we already saw Anything could happen with last night we went to bed thinking ah he’s coming to FSU we’re gonna be okay to we an hour into the show less than an hour into the show

It’s h he’s Georgia lean now so things move quickly don’t be surprised if it keeps flopping back and forth I wouldn’t be uh and you know that one o’clock signing time as I’ll put up the schedule again on the right side is where we’re kind of fixing our eyes moving forward

Now um it’s it’s slotted for 1 p.m and that would be at the start time of uh the JCS usually kicks in right about 5 after the hour on 933 FM in Tallahasse I wouldn’t be stunned if that thing goes to 125 130 140 you know how these

Signing ceremonies can go and then also if there’s a delay it feels like KJ Balden and this is not me taking a shot at the young man but it feels like KJ Balden will take and listen to every last person that he needs to talk to before making a decision Matt if he

Hadn’t Changed by now in terms of solidifying to one school why would he hold to one o’clock deadline firly I could see that thing going uh a little bit past that particular marker would you agree oh yeah definitely also keep in mind with all of these is it’s a

Ceremony for everyone at that school and normally not just football so that’s why it hasn’t happened at like I think Todd was the only one to happen at exactly 7 am. y it you have to go through everyone and they’re going to put their best player last which most of these players

Are obviously the best on their High scho team just so everyone sticks around if you have ESPN there media there and all that that’s why it takes a little long if you guys see like oh he’s supposed to sign it two like and he hasn’t yet it’s that’s probably the

Reason we have another signature that has arrived in for Florida State and this is one we were waiting for for some time it’s actually the first name on the list top left offensive lineman Jonathan Daniels is now in for Florida State that per our Michael LS and I just got the

Text I’m sure that means that Florida State themselves has acknowledged this uh but Michael Langston texting that Jonathan Daniels Loi has been received nli by Florida State so that would be another big get for the nules on the offensive line that would mean that Jaden Todd and Jonathan tels are both in

For FSU again coming up in the next hour you can expect the quarterback of this class Luke croman Hawk to send in his nli as we hit 11 a.m. on the East Coast we’re going for another 4 hours here on warchant TV for the 4,300 plus that are

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Watching on IG live your comments unfortunately do not get rolled into the software just yet but we we are working on that and we have asked Harry says great job as always on the NSD coverage 100 the ones we don’t get now we still can get them later Stay classy thank you

Carrie I believe that’s advice for the social media sphere we don’t condone anybody tweeting at teenagers ever period good or bad we don’t condone it but Carrie’s got a point it could be to your benefit as well because this time two years ago Matt I know you hadn’t

Joined the staff just yet maybe you were watching on warchant TV I was I was when mjj goes elsewhere and everybody’s decrying that and Travis Hunter goes elsewhere Well everybody’s saying this guy is falling nothing can be fixed here we’re going to continue to whiff until

We get better in terms of just straight Recruiters on staff well Florida State since that point has won 23 football games they’ve only lost three so things did get better and in fact the legacy is here on campus now in Marvin Jones Jr uh did you catch any wind of of anything

That went on when Marvin was on campus this weekend I know he walked in briefly and then uh he declined to be interviewed but any intel on Marvin’s experience as he came here for this second go round yeah I mean I think he liked it it he was very Incognito I saw

His dad his mom and his sister before I saw him and got even a glimpse of him as someone who wasn’t on the beat before I was beginning to question if he existed at that point just because I hadn’t seen him but um I mean I think it went well

All the connections were there right like you already had the the relationship with the staff him and Odell um all over it was I mean I think we always just thought it was a matter of time whenever he popped I didn’t he didn’t wasn’t going anywhere else he

Didn’t Vis schedule any visits anywhere else it was uh I would have been surprised if he went elsewhere honestly yeah that makes sense to me as well if you’re gonna get him on campus you’re you’re gonna close him yep uh Jared Jared is celebrating that Daniels is in

Is huge yeah I mean that’s that was a little weird that it took four hours I mean look I I think maybe just maybe Jamari Howard signing ceremony might go four hours but most of them don’t um we were working on that in the background

And they were doing a a trophy and uh I guess end of the Year Awards distribution thing where there might have been 30 trophies on the table and I think Jamari just decided to sign what was cool about Jamari signing ceremony I’m sure that it’s on social media now

He went with the old school Florida State logo he went with the old classic logo as uh he chose Florida State and sent in his signature Treasure Coast null asks so in the big picture what’s the difference between number one number five number seven and number 10 for the

Program well I I suppose Matt uh it depends on how you do in the transfer portal to mitigate that how would you look at it I don’t know I I don’t wouldn’t think it’s a huge deal I feel like it’s more of a bragging rights thing obviously because I mean this

Staff they’ve said I mean when I’ve heard norel speak at like camps andu stuff to all the kids that are there stars don’t matter to them as a staff so it’s kind of like they’re getting their guys the guys they want so a difference between four to seven while in the

College football playoff may be huge in recruiting for the staff isn’t isn’t all that right and also I’m looking at the graphic that on three posted of like the current rankings right now we got all big three Florida schools in the top 10 now which is something I I don’t know I

Don’t think we’ve seen it for a while right no it’s been a minute uh there’s been some back and forth you know Miami had made a habit of being top 10 even top five in like August and yeah September uh but they had a hard time closing uh we’ll see where Florida state

Stands when this all shakes out at the end of the day because I believe Armando blunt is still listed as a commit for Florida yeah that’s that’s done that is done if you’re just joining us that yeah he didn’t visit Florida State this past weekend so at that point when you don’t

Come up for your official visit at the very end end of the cycle that’s all set uh the difference is in in closing on the top flight players I mean let’s let’s not we’re not going to run from that it’s not it’s not our job to defend

And say that Florida state has a 100% close rate when you look at the facts and you say it’s that’s not even close to True uh they do need to do a better job of closing and I think rounding out their class in the front seven defensively Matt I mean that’s just one

Area where it sounds like they’re off to a very good start in 2025 especially on the defensive line but if you’re looking at this class even before what happens in the next couple of hours of the guys that they’re likely to get or likely to be involved with

That front s could use a little bit more presence in the 24 class yeah and that’s where you start looking at LJ McCrae and Amari Williams uh as guys that they kind of need and that’s why they’re essential right um with a blunt likely gone that’s why they brought Amari Williams in so

Fast for a visit like it’s you need that does need to get better Michael has said it multiple times that that has been the issue linebackers in 2025 is getting better uh I don’t don’t believe we have a blue chip linebacker in this class at

Least as of now and don’t expect one but again we already have a fourstar committed in the 2025 class obviously need to hold on to him for a year but yeah it does need to get better and that’s what makes LJ McCrae and marari Williams so important which Amari

Williams by the way right now we do not expect him to sign today uh when we talked to him on Sunday after his official visit he said he wasn’t sure um OB he just reclassified what last week maybe a day or two before he took the visit correct

So it I mean it makes sense for him to want want to wait till February but I think we were all hoping that oh he took this visit he reclassified let’s get this done yeah especially in the wake of uh Armando blunt going the other direction yeah it’s uh it’s disappointing at that

Position group it’s disappointing at linebacker now the portal can help uh because the portal isn’t always about one-year players like Keon Coleman sure you’ll take him Bren fist yes but there are several players in Florida State lore the last few years who are multi-year transfers I mean Fabian love

It’s a great example first Benson Jan Jones Jamie Robinson who left last year was a multi-year player as well so there are options there is a middle ground here but it could it could stand to get a little bit better in terms of closing uh in certain position groups in the

High school ranks this is Walk-On’s Signing Day live here on warchant TV we appreciate you stopping in and being a part of the nearly 4500 who are watching with us you’ve been here since we started at 8 in the morning if you have not ever been to the proper website that

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Football just so that means it is official uh Camden frier has now signed with Florida State we talked about him earlier Legacy his dad was on the 93 championship team he’s on that Sports Illustrated cover at least that’s how I wasn’t alive so that’s how I know him

Was off the Sports Illustrated cover right so that’s a that’s a good pick up for them that’s actually pushing pushing it for me too I’m I’m quite a bit older than you but I was I think in kindergarten or first grade when that play was made yeah uh Michael Langston

Also uh personally confirming Florida state has not put it out there just yet on their social media platforms that DD Holmes has signed for Florida State uh that is a blue chip defensive lineman right when we’re talking about front seven there right when we’re talking about front seven exactly right they

Could still do better that’s okay that doesn’t mean that DD is not an important addition to this class so between Camden frier and between DD Holmes the latest two signes and I’ve got let’s see here we go see we’re starting to add column number two here uh DD Holmes is a part

Of this class Camden frier of those two latest SES Matt give me uh some some low down on those two players and maybe some story lines that the folks wouldn’t know if they weren’t covering recruiting like you do yeah so um I think DD Holmes obviously out of the two is the more

Important signing especially what he talking about front seven all that you need that edge guy Edge depth is kind of uh not great right now for state so that adds a lot uh he is someone who he visited multiple times over the past year um I honestly thought he was he’s

Very close with his mom it looked like from when I saw him on the visit and I thought it was going to be tough to get him all the way from Maryland um coach JP proved me wrong there uh but it seemed like after the OV in the summer

In June was when he kind of it was trending towards Florida State uh he loved it he was the he’s a good guy to where he think he likes to think of everything after the fact so I interviewed him at the airport at like 5:00 a.m. when he left after his OV and

He was like well I don’t want to say like where they stand right now because I’m fresh off the visit so you’re thinking too much about it you’re not your mind’s kind of clouded after you come off one visit just because that’s all you’re thinking about you’re not

Thinking about the UF visit you took two weeks ago you’re thinking about the Florida state visit that just ended um and obviously coach JP locked it down there kept it close with him that’s going to be he’s going to be a name to remember and I expect to contribute it’s

Big time size I don’t know how much you’ve seen him in person Matt but 66240 uh that in and of itself in terms of the frame is quite attractive here as you’re trying to bolster what Florida state does like for example last year you bring in a legacy in Lamont green

That that’s more of a a slighter build but quicker player this is somebody that might project to maybe even help stop the run a little bit at 66240 this seems like a three down player he could be there for all Downs yeah definitely he’s really good he I will say is really good

I didn’t when in the sorry I’m tripping over my words uh when uh it looked like he started to come he was going to come to floor State I was surprised again and it’s a it was a big pickup at the time and still still is

Now that’s a good one to keep on to hasn’t wavered at all I don’t think he’s taken other visits I think obviously being far from here I think he only came to one game this year uh but good pickup has stayed locked in always love it when

Kids do that yeah it makes life just a little bit easier that’s not always the case here’s our updated signing times uh so you know that DD Holmes second from the top on the list is all set uh Luke croman Hawk should be sending in his

Letter of intent at any time this hour Florida state gets its quarterback which that’s very interesting folks because behind the scenes leading up to today Georgia lost its Blue Chip quarterback it’s a leader of its class to Nebraska uh in the last two days yes you hear

That right there’s a legacy at play there for Dylan rayola and the uh and uncle’s the o line coach oh I didn’t realize that part of it he’s Nebraska’s o line coach yep oh wow well okay two good reasons uh for Georgia to lose a high-profile player to a program like

Nebraska but they made a run at Luke croman hawk in the at the 11th Hour no pun intended with his signing time but Luke said no thanks and he actually put it out on social media saying no I’m a n so Luke’s uh letter of intent National

Letter of intent should be arriving uh anytime now and confirmed by Florida state three star offensive lineman Ty Hilton is at noon Jeremiah Smith who we had High Hope hopes for an Ohio State commit is likely to continue down that path and finish as a buckeye that is

Coming at lunchtime then you get into the afternoon window and it gets interesting here three star linebacker Jaden Parish goes at 12:30 but then the man that everybody’s talking about Florida State commit Five Star Plus safety KJ Balden who has been tied to Auburn in the last 24 hours people were

Sure this morning that Auburn was the heavy lean that it was well Florida probably in a good position to hold on now it’s Georgia KJ Balton is playing the game people and people are going to be locked in in the one o00 hour for him

And then it rounds out the rest of the day there are some signings like for example Jake Weinberg his Letter’s already in but he’s gonna have a ceremony at two o’clock uh defensive back Ricky Knight Mona CIT out of the West Coast four-star offensive lineman who just visited Florida State this past

Weekend at 3 and then there’s a couple more signings for the defensive side of the ball at 3:30 and 6 I should also know note for those of you here on warchant TV that we will be over those of us in Tallahassee will be over at Florida State’s press conferences Mike

Norvell is holding his official Signing Day press conference at 4M and then we will be able to talk to all of his assistant coaches afterwards so even when we sign off at three o’clock the day is not even close to done couple of signing ceremonies into the evening and

More coverage of Florida State through the press conference view through the coaching staff’s words themselves Mike norvell’s stance on the class all of those things coming up on the channel in the very near future Matt any developments as we’re getting close to lunchtime that you’re watching I’m sure

It’s KJ Balden first but anything else that either makes you nervous or that you’re happy to see get done in the next hour or two uh I mean not really obviously like you just said KJ Bold and The Jeff Cameron show gets started off with a bang today

There we’ll see and I think that press conference questions those press conference questions towards Mike will be uh aimed at whatever happens at that that time but it’ll be can you pull that list back up again so many names coming in today it’s just hard to remember them

Off the top of my head we’re talking the schedule there you go there we go uh Cam Davis we went over him a little bit ago he’s locked in he’s great great kid uh hopefully after whatever happens with Balden we can talk about him more uh to

Get off of if it is bad news if it’s good news we probably keep talking about Balden uh TT also really like him he’s fun uh well hang let me cut let me cut in right there you like him but Michael is confirming that mana’s uh nli is in we

Will wait for uh Florida State’s confirmation to uh double confirm that but Michael Langston has been reporting for us early he’s got a line in to when Florida state receives these documents and so Florida State’s offensive line class should be according to our Michael Langston all set for the day uh Mana was

Here over the weekend for his official visit he seems to have a very good perspective on the world um given that he’s a late bloomer into the football game I know that there’s a good story you can find on YouTube uh where his high school coach talks about you know

Refining his basketball abilities into offensive line abilities uh but that is Florida State’s blue chipper Mony it why do you like him and what stood out to you Matt when you you interviewed him and you guys talked to him this weekend on campus yeah I mean obviously the

Story is really cool I believe he’s from the Kong the Democratic Republic of the Congo originally I’m sorry if I’m wrong on that but he yeah so he’s one of those International kids kind of like a Lucas Simmons I mean maybe Atkins should start recruiting International more he’s hit

On a few right the only one that hasn’t is zandel at this point Y um but he’s he’s cool uh when we were sitting there talking to him on Sunday we’re like oh do you intend to sign with Florida State while he’s literally holding the letter

In his hand like the folder it’s like well yeah um but I think he’s going to be a great Edition I know Atkins really likes him uh he’s going to be fun to watch this was a kid who was originally committed to USC too if you remember

That yep I do yeah 64290 he looked every bit of it uh when you were interviewing him over the weekend uh this again it’s it’s not a class that’s littered with uh five stars in the trenches but these are some pieces that you can work with between Jonathan Daniels out of

Pensacola which that was its own storyline if you’re just joining us uh it was kind of under the radar but it was a signing ceremony at 7 wasn’t until about 15 minutes ago that Florida State confirmed that they had Jonathan Daniels signature Jaden Todd who is a large body

He was the first sign for Florida State and then Mony itti uh out of the West Coast Modesto California by way I I think you’re right but uh by the Democratic Republic of the Congo uh again Florida state is bolstering its class today more in the skill position

Zones than anywhere else are they really bringing it home uh to give you a rundown of some of those signes we’re going to have the graphic ready in just a moment but I know Matt that we had talked about a little bit earlier uh that one of the best playmakers that

Florida state has brought in this year already is Elijah Moore out of Maryland and I find that to be interesting because I believe at the time he flipped from Ohio state to Florida State he was but a three star but now it seems like the service is caught up and realized

There’s a reason Ohio state was interested in this kid there’s a reason that Florida State wanted to flip him from Ohio State yeah I don’t know if he was committed but I know it was like a lean at that point yeah yeah um funny story about that of his rankings is when

He first came to campus over the summer um I missed talking to him I didn’t get to talk to him on campus so I was trying to get in contact with him and when he tweeted out when we tweeted out he arrived we put three star and he had

Gone under us and was like it should be fourstar even though on three hadn’t caught up yet in that point in time so he’s always known himself that he’s a four star and he is every bit of that four star and it’s he’s going to be

Really fun to watch and I said it earlier he is going to be when when he get when we get to his newcomer press conference I’m not sure if he’s enrolling early or not I’d have to look at the list uh so many lists right now

That they gets jumbled in my head uh but he’s gonna be probably your favorite newcomer press conference to watch in my opinion who is Florida State’s coaching MVP this year on the trail outside of Mike norell I’m GNA ask Matt ler that in just 30 seconds Bay at Walk-Ons is just

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They’re supporting us today on warchant TV war chant Signing Day live so Matt you know you’re connected you’re talking to the kids you’re talking to the coaches a lot sources around the program who has impressed you this particular cycle with their aptitude as a recruiter on Florida State staff gotta go with Pat

Seraine right I think that’s the obvious one um eat with or without KJ this is still one of the best secondary classes in the country even if you take him out Kai Bates Jamari Howard Ricky Knight is underrated Ricky Knight actually had a uh interception while covering Jeremiah

Smith in the state playoffs a few weeks ago so there you go there um again really really good secondary class uh I just wish I know there’s like a gift out there of or picture out there of Atkins smoking up cigar we need to get one of

Pat serain to tweet out there whenever he keeps Landing these big uh DBS and safeties yeah that’s been I mean this is his first year at Florida State uh it was coach Marcus Woodson before that and Florida state has brought in some very impressive secondary classes the last

Couple of seasons and you’re starting to see that on the field more as a Conrad hussy gets more playing time this year I believe that Edwin Joseph was going to get more time if he didn’t get hurt a little bit earlier in Camp uh AAR Thomas down the stretch was phenomenal for

Florida State it seems like ceran might have improved where they’re going you know even more than they were doing all right but it seems like notwithstanding what’s about to happen at one o’clock they’ve done a really good job of bringing in a different level of player

In the secondary maybe uh maybe DBU is back soon it could so uh at the bottom of the hour here we are going to be joined Again by our senior recruiting analyst Michael Langston as on Hud’s going to take the day as well again to let you folks know we’re going to be

Here live until 3:00 here on warchant TV to the 4300 plus that are watching we appreciate you throw us a thumbs up Florida state has already landed a bunch of signes uh today and this is the latest from director Ben behind the scenes here we are the official signings

Page Jonathan Daniels he was a 7 am signing ceremony came in around 11 o’clock landed Thomas in the last 20 minutes or so Florida state gets their tight end to be officially a seminal Jamari Howard L McCoy BJ Gibson Kai Bates mon CIT Charles Lester Elijah Moore Micah Dany Jake Weinberg Jaden Tod

Jore flag and Camden frier so Florida state is uh quite strong at this moment in closing out the kids who are committed coming into the 11th Hour there’s a couple of big ones big fish that are still out there Michael Langston has put in our group chat that

Uh he’s mining for more information any last second developments on Jeremiah Smith and K tuned for that at the bottom of the hour as for right now I had talked about how Landon Thomas the tight end is a perfect fit for Florida State’s offense well let Dominic Robinson prove

It to you why and how he’s a perfect fit on Walk-On’s Signing Day live here’s Dominic’s thoughts Florida State lands at the time that they got this flip the best tight end of the country when they flipped him from Georgia to Florida State and now the signature meets the

Paper as Landon Thomas from not too far from these parts here here in Tallahassee has signed with Florida State this is a high caliber tight end and I know that Dominic Robinson while he played on both sides of the ball in college uh Papa Robinson uh likes this

Position just a little bit because of what’s going on in Saturdays in the west coast of the country uh he’s our lead football analyst Dominic Robinson breaking down the film for 2024 players for us here on warchant TV and when you watch Dominic Landon Thomas what kind of football player do you

See um I see a player who’s got great change of Direction um for his body you’ll see multiple plays where there’s some run after the catch or you know where he’s making cuts um and making guys miss um that you you you like to see where he’s running routes where he’s

Got to change directions it’s not just a fade ball um which is what you typically see with the the the big body tied end um and so you know this is a guy who I think uh one of the things that existed at Florida State forever you know when I

Became a fan was every player at Florida state was the best athlete on their team when they were in high school and then when I got to Florida State it was the same thing every player that I played with was you know Rufus Brown who was a cornerback played quarterback in in in

El Paso um Anquan Balden who was a wide out played quarterback in in high school he’s the best athlete at his school um you know Chris Ricks who was the quarterback for us was a you know highlevel baseball player I when you watch Landon Thomas although he’s a

Tight end you can see you know he’s that Wildcat quarterback that that gives you such great information on who he is one it tells you that he’s Dependable it tells you that the guys love him tells you that the coach he means a lot to the

Coach you know coach isn’t putting a guy at quarterback who they don’t they can’t depend on Coach isn’t putting a guy on at quarterback who’s not a leader um so when he’s playing Wildcat quarterback that gives me great information on terms of this is the best athlete on the team

There’s a route right there where it just incredible you know stick nod that’s called a stick nod it’s a double route um let’s run that back Ben you’ll see him stick his foot in the ground you got to stick your foot in the ground twice this is something that usually big

Body guys can’t do if you go back just a little bit further so typically a big body guy isn’t going to be able to do this well he’s got to stick he’s got to make two sticks and uh and then avoid a you know the the guy

Who’s inside leverage on him you know that that that takes a lot more than it looks like that’s usually a little guy’s route where you gota you know it’s an out and up or you know rail Rail and go and he’s you know he does that you know

Makes the guy Defender Miss and and then again another catch with his hands away from his body that’s the other thing that I loved was his willingness to extend his arms away from his body you see him going over the middle um and and on all of these catches he’s extending

His arms away from his body which usually with the big body guys they want to catch the ball within their body they’re just not confident enough to get their hands away from their body and then um you know here again this is a screen that you’re throwing to your

Tight end you know down here in the Red Zone which we’ve seen Mike Norville likes now this is the point where the film really turns and it gets to bully ball he starts getting nasty here you know there he is on punt team here he is running

Counter where he’s got to pull around and kick a guy out here he is out on the edge just getting making a nasty block out here in space and then uh you know here he is in the in the wing go going split Zone that’s where if this guy was

Ranked the number one tight end in the country that’s probably where that comes from I’m not saying that he isn’t great when he split out but there’s few guys that can split out and do what he does and just do what we just saw in those last four Clips that’s what that’s the

Separator and that’s where you start to get excited about what he can bring because when you see him as a flex wide out you see a good player but when you see a guy play bullyball like he just did um you start to see a great player

So Dominic uh I salivate at those clips when I think about Mike norvell’s offense and the fit within the offense this can be a featured player in more of an unheralded quote unquote position but this could be a featured player in Mike’s offense because of all the things

He asks out of the tight end slashback whatever you want to call it yeah this was the one that if I were to say who fits best in terms of the recruiting class this is the guy absolutely this all of those clips that we just saw are are exact you know aside

From the Wildcat quarterback um are exact things that they asked Jahim Bell to do this year the split Zone you know blocking the backside end the counter you know trying to wrap and uh you know and block the end um the uh you know the obviously the the Special Teams you know bully

Ball is uh you know that’s that’s something that when you’re young you you should be on special teams you got to be on special teams so those are things that you know he’s going to be asked to do within the FSU offense so if he’s been coached and and taught to do that

Already and feels comfortable and competent there he’s gonna definitely give himself a leg up to get himself on the field early so this gets interesting to me then as we pull up your scale of prospect ratings and what they can do in terms of instant impact to Florida State

Or early impact or whether or not they’re going to be a player that takes some time to develop into something uh of a starter or contributor uh when you talk about best fit quote unquote how does Landon Thomas stand up on your scale here from one all the way to four

And a half yeah really close to that that 3.5 where he’s going to be pushing to start in year one you know maybe close to that Cam Davis area where I have a 3.25 where he’s clearly an instant contributor and um you know but maybe not starting

Just because I don’t know what the current class will have in terms of the transfer portal and and and whatnot but this is a guy who’s going to play year one um you know and I also I don’t know how strong he is although you know when

You see a guy you know manhandling guys in high school that doesn’t always translate because you don’t always know the competition so um but I definitely see in terms of what he’s been asked to do in high school and then what he’ll be asked to do in Mike norvell’s offense

There isn’t a better fit in terms of guys in terms of players and then the attributes that they have he fits perfectly he can do them at a high all the things that he’s asked to do in the FSU offense he’s already doing at a highly proficient rate so now it’s just

A ma matter of how quickly can you make the transition to the speed of the game and all of the things that are asked of you at the college level which is a lot of times a lot more than than what’s asked of you at the high school level

The best this is why we’re very excited yeah surprised you there didn’t I Matt this is why we’re very excited uh for landed Thomas to be a s for the Florida state seminal in this class as you can see beyond just somebody who splits out and runs routes uh the ability to block

The ability to line up everywhere relative to the line of scrimmage split out on the line in the back field it’s a really good fit and we thank Dominic Robinson for his expertise to tell us a little bit more about the nuances of how these positions work we’re going to be

Handing off at the bottom of the hour very soon to our own Aon hudy and Michael Langston uh that is the A Team coming back in to give us more Intel here momentarily and uh it looks like Michael is trying to find any last minute things about Jeremiah Smith who

At the top of the hour at noon will be making his signature and his final decision known it’s been a heavy Ohio State lean since the developments this morning KJ Balden at one o’clock this afternoon so that is also a big one that we’re watching he’s a Florida State

Commit but will he be a Florida State sige all things we’re considering here in the near future on warchant TV this is warchant game day or sorry listen to me it’s not quite a game it is for Matt lasair it is for Mich Lon but uh it is

Signing Day live presented by our friends at Walk-Ons so we will be joined shortly uh by those gentlemen uh Matt just final thoughts as we’re closing out a segment of the program here where we saw Florida state land several signes um again you get some pieces at the skill

Positions and a couple players in the trenches uh just your thoughts the last hour and a half as things have kind of stabilized a bit I think there was a lot of Victory all floating around but we’re kind of in the cut right now for Florida

State’s 2024 class yeah I think uh that kind of helped settle everyone down getting some good ones in like DD Holmes uh Jamari Howard signing uh that was a big one considering we’re talking about losing someone in the secondary uh in general it’s right now other than one thing it’s going as we

Expected uh so nothing nothing too bad here again still a very good class it still going to be top 10 worst case right if all goes wrong all goes to hell so like let’s sit in our seats let’s calm down let’s see we’ve learned already today and I’ve said this

Probably 10 times already anything can happen so just just keep watching one big sige that is uh in the fold Florida State hasn’t confirmed it just yet but the quarterback the quarterback has been secured for Florida State as uh there’s photo and video evidence according to our uh our little internal channel here

That Luke croman Hawk has indeed followed through done as many expected and this was not there were kids that might were that were going to bring some drama a cam Davis at running back a Luke croman Hawk at quarterback those were not going to be uh the ones to worry

About and sweat about but Luke croman Hawk we will await Florida state’s official announcement uh where you could use that language but signing with Florida state is their quarterback and that is obviously a big get for the nolles to close out that deal uh Luke was somebody that Florida state was on

Very early in the process Matt and uh he stayed with Florida State even after a late courting by the Georgia Bulldogs yeah this kid’s a null through and through great kid really good player I saw him throw at um Camp over the summer uh great arm uh just in general

He’s a also a kid who’s going to be a very good leader and going to be very good probably quickly I remember last year uh once we got into spring practice we were all very impressed by Brock Len and how he was progressing very fast this is something we could see with Luke

Up and there’s the confirmation right there there you go you gotta love it so the quarterback is in for 2024 you know who brought that up you know who pulled that up behind the scenes that was Aon thank you very much for the assist there

Aon we’re going to bring him on in just a second can hear oh he says stop it he said I see him behind the scenes he says stop it please uh so Florida state gets this young man and you know it’s Brock Glen luk croman Hawk for the future Matt

Now Florida State might be doing some work on the present but just judging by the guys they landed the last couple years this Florida State’s quarterback position is in a pretty good place very good spot 25 26 and Beyond yeah I mean keep in mind at one point Luke was a

Five star for about a week uh the reasoning for that was Armando blunt actually was the one who reclassified cuz he was the way on three industry rankings work it’s like the top 30 or five stars and uh he gotten that 30 then Armond blunt reclassified and that

Bumped him back down so he was he’s still borderline of five star um really we could call him one honestly that’s how good he is uh yes I would agree considering uh you know the Elite 11 a little bit yourself too and uh he he did not disappoint with his performance there

Not at all at the Elite 11 all right it is time for the anchor change now we bring back uh the man who has led the proceedings that is Aon haandi right here on war chain TV Matt stay right there stay right there gonna need your expertise until uh Michael gets back in

The chair uh but Aon all right man things it’s not not saying it’s totally calmed down because there’s still some big things to come but all right got a couple of these signes like there was a Jonathan Daniels worry they got him like everything seems to be starting to

Smooth out just a little bit just a little bit yeah I like how you pointed out Landon Thomas like he was committed to Georgia they’ve their tight ends have done a lot of good things lately and he believes in this program so um perspective everybody again y’all can be

Angry I’m gonna stop saying don’t be angry you can be angry but let’s just have some perspective and you know be polite in our commentary with everybody in the chat here so what did I miss guys fill me up fill me in uh a lot of signes

Uh let’s see so Jamari Howard I don’t know that that uh that particular ceremony is even close to over yet still going that’s still but the signature arrived I think he said the hell with this I think he walked out there’s there’s still 15 trophies to go uh but

But he’s a Sig now uh L McCoy has signed Landon Thomas has signed uh monest itti offensive lineman Jonathan Daniels yeah it it’s been a good run it’s been a good run now the question is when you hand it back off at one o’clock I’m about to Jet

Here when you hand it off at one o’clock will people be happier or will they be more Angry than they are right now yeah you you it’s been it’s gonna be this nice Crest and you know dips and stuff so I I think I’m here like on the on the

Bottom end of that Crest and I think by the time I hand it off to you you and Jeff will you know you’ll be putting out fires it’ll be like Backdraft you’ll be like Hawk and whoever else look man if Jeff wants to put gasoline on it he will

Too so we we’ll see what happens at one o’clock but gentlemen got speed that’s Tom Lang everybody director of original content warchant.com ultimate semble sport Source he and Jeff Cameron 1 to 3:00 live here as well as 933 FM terrestrial radio in Tallahassee so if you’re driving in your car you don’t

Want to be looking at your phone and driving just put 933 on you can listen to it Matt showing all of us up with the best backdrop of the day to him so where are you at in Dallas somebody was asking earlier in the show I think you have a

Female following so I don’t know but oh that’s taking ladies so say at a distance uh fris go Texas actually uh if you follow portal stuff Evan Stewart wide receiver who just entered is from here uh he’s from a high school on the other side of town but uh he is from

Here the kid from mcken I can’t remember his name we flipped from Florida to Texas today is also he’s from the town over uh the Cowboys practice facility 10 minutes down the road so it’s a good spot for football the FCS Championship game it’s actually it’s in

The same stadium where the frisco Bowl was last night yeah yeah which which by the way we hit the over on that kids so wake up War chance got you two for two on on Bold picks we’re going to go with USF straight up over Syracuse uh because

Just no faith in the ACC right now but you’re not here to talk about games and such Michael LS will be joining us here momentarily shortly as he continues to work on some situational information when it comes to Jeremiah Smith KJ Boling things of that nature so are they

Both at one o’clock oh gez that’s SEC the second time no no uh Jeremiah’s at noon okay and KJ’s at one the Jeff Cameron show gets to kick off with whatever happens with KJ all right well good Jeremiah Smith man I I feel like I I contributed to the problem possibly

Matt I think on Monday’s show on wake up with Corey um you know trying to just process with everything that floor State’s having to go through certain guys entering the portal guys opting out still not being in the playoff every day realizing that and not having it sit any

Easier with you I was like well you know what man the portal to in my opinion man I don’t know maybe you know it’s it’s it’s such a small sample size Matt this portal doesn’t seem to have as much like depth of Elite Talent it feels like versus

Last year and so all these guys keep getting picked up and you’re like man when’s Florida seate gonna make their shot when are they gonna make their run and cam Ward is obviously the first guy and if if that happens then you know all bets are off and everybody feels so much

Better about things but even DJ will make you feel good about things but like where’s the next Keon where’s the next Jared hopefully Marvin Jones Jr can give you something close to that but who’s going to replace Braden who’s going to replace Dre you know you’re you’re

Looking at all these guys and I’m thinking I’m like well man if you get Jeremiah Smith like I don’t care who you get in the port yeah so then and and Cory’s like you’re talking about we’re gonna get him I’m like I I mean it’s a legitimate shot but it sounds like Ohio

State is kind of you know trending well I guess I mean it’s crazy to say because he’s been committed to them this whole entire time but does seem kind of crazy that you know you’ve mentioned like how he commented and complimented his coaching staff I guess he hasn’t even

Really been to Columbus all that much lately but just the thought that if you were to get him that would really set everything off but you know we got to be reasonable in our expectations and maybe re-calibrate right now instead of going for that top spot they’re probably more

Likely to stay you know within the top 10 so I guess you have to all kind of come to grips with all that n fan 1893 saying we have a great receiver in running back roomp yeah all right okay I mean just currently running back a little bit thin

Right now but I’m never going to be too worried about running back with this staff and just the way the the game of football is played this day and age unless you have you know your bejan Robinson Dalvin otherwise everyone everybody seemingly dime a dozen receiver you feel good about hem and Des

And Van dvis and what they can be in jakai but yeah I mean you you need you need more there so Jeremiah would fit nicely but we’ll see if it happens and obviously Evan Stewart maybe we can get Matt to go on his IG live yeah on some

Doors that’s somebody that they’re gonna have to look into I would think right yeah that’s someone um and I haven’t had time to update the portal thread so sorry for everyone waiting on updates I drove here from Tallahassee so no texting and driving but uh it he’s

Someone we kind of expect interest for right now I’m trying to still gauge it uh obviously I have some connections there considering we’re from the same town so still looking into it but I do expect that to be someone they at least contact all right it’s all we want man

Just yeah make you know make the effort which they certainly are and no reason to think that the staff will not keep it rolling when it comes to uh portal commitments um have you guys gone through all of these super chats I feel like I don’t know I saw a bunch of these

This one’s only for $2 but Rod Bostic interesting one does Smith sck in Ohio State indicate no I I wouldn’t think so what do you I I that’s what I wanted to put on I don’t think there’s any connection there right I mean I don’t as

Far as I know there’s no pass connection to them or anything again dju is still a viable option there too I I don’t think that I don’t think that who the quarterback is between dju and cam Ward or sorry flip that I don’t think Smith coming or not flips cam Ward going

Because he’s not going to Ohio State that’s been known right like it’s been known right now it’s between FSU Miami a mystery visit school which don’t believe is Ohio State uh and the NFL so I don’t think the two connect at all I just wanted to I saw that and wanted to make

Sure it didn’t start anything oh how say lost their quarterback which I know to Syracuse Ohio State fans aren’t that upset about losing Kyle MC which Syracuse right yep look at the orange man they ain’t messing around but like that Devin Brown kid you know if you don’t like Kyle

McCord you know they clearly felt he was further ahead than Devin Brown and he got all the opportunity to take that job away from him in those first like two three games of the Season before they had to play Notre Dame so yeah I don’t buy that Smith thinks that there’s a

Better quarterback situation in Columbus versus Tallahassee it just man that heartline relationship seems like really legit like when Florida state gets players like when you get a Charles leser you’re like yeah man like he really hit it off with you know whoever you want to say you can say it was his

Position coach you can say Sir tan that’s what I felt good about when it came to baling I’m just like man I just feel like you put me up against greasy no offense Hugh freeze and his staff and you I’ve got Pat certan like I feel good

About that but then obviously George is a little bit more of a factor so I mean I just it seems like heartline is the is the receiver Whisperer right like if there’s a quarterback Whisperer the equivalent of that is Brian heartline so why wouldn’t you want to go play for him

Exactly that’s that’s what it is at the end of the day he’s even quoted of saying you said it all the way at for me 7 a.m. that like he’s been quoted saying this isn’t about the money it’s about who can develop in into the NFL who has

The best track record of that right now Ohio State without a doubt so again it’s not an nil thing I think both the guys were talking about who were not getting the news we thought so this morning is not nil it’s all the program and de development side of where just Florida

State’s not proven yet right and it’s not a problem it’s not an issue I think Florida state will prove that fairly soon down the road especially especially once we get into this next upcoming draft and stuff like that but it’s just there hasn’t been enough proof there for

Development outside of in the college level is that is that fair to say disagrees with my uh take on the running back room I am camo 904 this is Avatar is that Randy Savage Oh no looks like it’s a maybe he’s an actual rapper maybe

That’s his like uh his check it out uh running back isn’t thin Sam Singleton Dany kaziah Holmes Cam Davis to aely what does this dude talking about we thin at running back he’s just talking I mean it’s mainly the fact with Hill right like it’s Rodney Hill going

In the portal and Trey Benson leaving yeah it just you don’t have a lot of proven Commodities behind Lawrence like I like kaziah Sam Singleton’s fast we’ll see if that can you know become an element that’s integrated into the offense I do like Cam Davis but against

Not a lot of proven reliable Talent whereas you know last year like all right you got Trey Benson you got to phy and you felt good about what Rodney Hill could be you feel good about what kaziah Holmes can be but you’re not 100 per sure what he actually is going to be

Well we can talk about it on New Year’s Eve see how he looks after he plays against Georgia goes for 200 yards on that Bulldog defense three tutties why not why not because I why not you why not you um yeah man I did say lt’s

Proven but behind that come on keep up everybody did you guys talk about Treasure Coast null who dropped 13 bucks in the jar appreciate you Treasure Coast null big picture what is the difference between being number one number five number seven or number 10 for the

Program yeah uh we did briefly it’s just kind of a and what I said is yeah it means something it’s more of like a to me it’s more like a uh bragging right kind of thing is my opinion on it like the guy the staff is going to want to

Get their guys they don’t care about the star rankings norella said that multiple times before they want their guys they want their class uh but it’s just a good thing to be able to say oh we had a top five class it kind of evaluates the talent you’re getting compared to other

Schools um 100 Proof football can you catch those of us in Western time zones up while the Doom and Gloom who have we officially missed on thanks good question we should remember that everybody here has not been with us for the last three hours and 45 minutes

They’re hopping on and off we have not we being the Royal we Florida state has not officially missed out on anybody of their top targets uh there’s just been some trending news that is not in the favor of Florida state currently namely KJ Balden and Jeremiah Smith but we’ll

Find out sooner than later on those guys but here are all the players that have officially signed and the guys that will be signing soon Ty Hilton coming up at noon Jeremiah Smith also coming up at noon again I like how we put in parenthesis there Ohio State commit he’s never been

Florida States so it’s always been an uphill battle Jayden Parish at 12:30 KJ Bal in one o’clock as well as Cam Davis Ricky Knight after that quarter pass the one o’clock hour Tamir Hickman Collins at 3:30 and then we got some evening news dropping too denas white and

Armando blunt blunt didn’t get the same treatment with the parenthesis Florida State commit but he kind of is supposedly but we all know he’s going to Miami so there you go 100 Proof football you’re talking nolles recruiting here with us caught up with it sign Day live presented by Walk-Ons we appreciate you

All being here Matt ler I’m Aon hudy we got Ben Spicer Tom Lang Michael langon helping out as well Jeff Cameron and Tom taking things over here about one o’clock or so but we got a lot of time before that happens president 229 has Keon Coleman announced he is leaving

No you know who also has announced that they leaving I don’t think Marvin Harrison Jr has officially said he’s leaving I don’t think Caleb Williams has even officially said I think he only opted out of the bulll he is not officially declared for the NFL draft

And I have no idea why everybody and I wish I could give you an answer as to why and it’s not just a Matt and Aon thing a Corey and Aon thing like I’ve all my group chats like my friends my brother and his friends is all like like

What’s what is taking everybody so and I have no clue no idea no idea whatsoever I wish I had intelligent informative opinion to give you on why these guys that we pretty much know are probably going to go to the pros have not decided to enter their names and yet January

15th I think is the deadline for most of these guys but Keon Coleman hasn’t even said about his b intentions he just yeah he just tweeted out like his broken heart emoji and like thank you for everything Flor say which sounded like a good bue but wasn’t a good buy so uh

We’ll see how things go with Keon president 22 9 as you’re watching us here on the show U yeah victim moan I think perspective is all I’m asking for we can all be angry 20-year-old ason would probably be angry watching this show um but Vic Deone JR says Smith was

Never committed to us so how would it be a miss right how would that be bad closing but there these again these are all open to interpretation it’s all interation here I don’t know if you call it a Miss but it’s just like U you were

Right there right so you had the shot at it so it’s like a I guess that’s perceived of don’t you can’t be as mad right because he was never actually ours but we were right there in it for a while I mean he’s probably since the summer at least I think he’s visited

Florida State much more than he has Ohio State they’ve had the momentum in my opinion up until this morning so you were there the whole time he wasn’t yours but it started to feel like he was I think is why people are saying it’s a Miss that’s not fair Carrie that’s not

True either it’s mean-spirited show respect to Tate rodmaker put respect on Tate Rod Maker’s name will not take Tate slander on the timeline Tony Ken Lawrence toil is proven he has been there the whole grind and has not thought about one time the portal transferring now why isn’t that not

Proving it is proven to me that he is committed to play at Flor State yeah man there you go I like Lawrence Shi everybody he has proven himself on the field uh the other guys that were mentioned in a very long push back I don’t think I’ve yet at this point but

Again man it’s running back put the ball in their hands they can make plays they don’t have to wait usually as long as somebody who plays on the offensive line or the defensive line so I get it I totally understand do we know how old Armando blunt is by the way see here’s

The thing when I graduated high school I was still 17 years old so I and he reclassified I guess there’s a chance he’s 16 177 I would lean more towards 17 right I know but even and this isn’t this is not a sour grapes thing

About I don’t even know why I guess if you’re a coaching staff you can’t say no to a kid but I just wonder this has got this is one of the weird I don’t know maybe maybe it’ll become normal just like enrolling early to me never seemed

Weird it just only seemed odd to me about like you would why would you want to miss out on like the great opport you only can be a senior in high school once and for me as a kid who did not play High School highle football like summer

Year of leaving high school going to college was awesome like you got to you know party it up and have fun I get it you’ve got bigger aspirations enrolling early would make sense but like a whole year early and a year and a half really yes when you’re like a defensive lineman

You got to go up against Jeremiah buers or Darius Washington I but give me another year give me another year but I guess not a year at least in a semester yeah but I guess you know with NI coming now it’s like well I’d kind of rather

Get paid now than have to wait another year but yeah yeah I there’s there is an outside shot he could be 16 years old but uh probably 17 Scott cron perhaps crony but we go with the silon E solid LinkedIn head shot from our guy Scott is there anybody you would compare

Jeremiah Smith’s skill set to former FSU player maybe even somebody on the roster I haven’t seen him play a lot is everybody even on that plays on Sundays that you saw that might compare to what you saw when Jeremiah went crazy in the state championship game in

Tallahassee Matt um I mean he’s a big dude and can go up and grab it and it’s fast so maybe a DK metf if we’re going Sunday I would go with that might be a stretch that might be a stretch but that’s the first one that comes to mind

And in addition I think I read it I think it’s on his on three profile Gino Smith is his cousin so there’s a Seahawks connection there okay but uh yeah I’ll go DK metat okay all all right I think we’ll all sign up for him um

Look at Bart Ross Bart Ross didn’t know that I didn’t play highend football that’s rude rude part rude don’t take your anger out on me man um Jordan Sean to Maryland somebody just put in the chat LOL really is that really I thought he was going to Dion I thought it was

Dion and then Oregon if were a flip I should probably check that out before I I put it as um gospel here on our show so I mean he’s from he’s from the DMV right so it wouldn’t be too far off yeah how about t Tong ofo opting out

Of the bowl game for them like what play the game man you’re not a first round pick the QB class is way too stacked for most people to be yeah Lan R Brunson saying Caleb Williams doesn’t want to play for the Bears that could possibly be the reason why but um

It’s still crazy that these high-end guys have not announced maybe I mean golly I would hope by Christmas we would know like from Jem they’re gonna do you know well Jem’s Jem’s in the draft but hasn’t said the bowl game right right right so it’s like I wantan to let’s get

That figured out like I understand like they’re still probably maybe rehabbing and doing stuff here but like you’re gonna figure you’ll be home around your family for Christmas at that point maybe you all get around when you talk figure it out yeah this one hurts a little bit I wasn’t high on

Canard but he committed from Georgia Tech the defensive end that was in the portal committed to South Carolina OK Lola was a guy that I wanted I like end up at Colorado makes you think maybe that highend ceiling that I was hoping for and forecasting maybe isn’t

As attainable as you would hope because again I mean no offense to Dion and what he’s trying to build at Colorado but there’s other programs that need a piece like that that you figure they probably wouldn’t let slip through their fingers and can develop them better right like

There’s been probably no development on the side of Colorado so far this year and at least Florida State’s proven that I said earlier that they’re not super proven with NFL terms but I think with with the ends is the one position that they are right because you got Germaine

Johnson obviously vers so that’s uh he can go to Colorado uh we do yeah SE in was fake news sorry everybody I’ll take a lap at 1:00 I should know better than the pull up nonsense here uh I usually read the comments before I put them on the screen

But this is our guy Kyle from Charlotte so I’ll pull it up it’s either going to be funny or informative so we we’ll see what it is what would be worse he wonders cam Ward waiting a long time just to commit to another school or Cam

Ward waiting a long time to go pro and say Florida state would have been my choice if I didn’t go pro um the former because if he goes to another school you’re thinking it’d probably be Miami and that would not be great agree you sign off on I I agree

With that because then it’s uh it doesn’t burn you right like it’s it has no harm right and then we get dju and Miami already lost out on will Howard so I will say the fact that Miami was so quick to get on KJ Jefferson apparently

Quick to get on KJ Jefferson makes you think they’re not getting cam Ward one would think possibly that could be a possible outcome of that situation not saying it is but feel like we’re probably in a good spot hopefully there for that um and that’d be another thing

Too again I get everybody’s frustration not closing whatever but man like if if one of these quarterbacks would have you know and by one of these quarterbacks cam W obviously because I think DJ U angal would would jump at the opportunity to play at the school so

It’s pretty much waiting for cam to make his decision but like if last night Cam Ward before we all went to bed if Cam Mo would have made some sort of video announcement that he was coming to Tallahassee that changed the entire way you feel right now and I get he did not

Do that so you feel the way you feel right now but just imagine he’s still out there that’s still a legitimate possibility for Flor C like if that were to happen on Saturday or Friday or Christmas Eve just you know you’d be like let’s go so I’m gonna keep that uh

Stored in my mind when I think about things here uh thanks to Ben answering Mark’s question here in the chat Mark’s asking about when’s practice today who is filming fudge of practice if we’re here if we’re here Matt who is filming practice I don’t know because if it’s not you it’s

Me uh practice is is not open to the media today but they are practicing today they practiced I think I should say past tense I think they’re probably done by now but they did practice today it was not open to the media tomorrow will be open to the media I will be

There with my camera and we’ll we’ll see maybe they’ll tell us that we can’t film it we really are not we’re being encouraged to not talk about stuff on our webites and our podcasts and our broadcast so I disagree with it but I’ll respect it I have to play by the rules I

Don’t make the rules but and I’m not tenured enough on this on this company to be like I don’t care we’re gonna do it anyways uh so we have to respect those wishes my thing Matt is that you know they don’t want us to talk about stuff because of competitive advantages

Disadvantages we’ve talked about it all year long and they’ve won every single game wasn’t a competitive disadvantage in the other 13 games but I guess this time around it could be so we’ll I kind of wish I was I was there yesterday for for this I think it would have been fun

To watch we work so everybody we’ll take behind the curtain I know you’re all here for signing Day news and we’re we’re scrolling it through your screens Jeremiah there’s no new signings or anything so we’re in we’re in a break we’re on a break we’re good right right

Jeremiah Smith coming up at noon is is so we we realize we’re at the top of the hour it is sign Day live presented by Walk-Ons check them out wherever City you are but if you’re in Tallahassee especially right there on Capitol Circle go to it can’t talk enough about how

Delicious the food looks and Drew is such a good pitch man I miss Dre breze good guy Texan loyal te West Lake uh chaparal I think right outside of Austin let’s go let’s go all roads lead back to Texas everybody uh let the road you’re on take you to Walk-Ons they’re bringing

You all this coverage I would not have gotten out of bed to be here at eight o’clock in the morning if it wasn’t for walk-on so show their appreciation to them hit the thumbs up we certainly would appreciate it Jacob brazwell is asking if we could put up a live stream

Of Jeremiah if there is one out there we will bring it up when he is ready to go ahead and make that announcement unless he’s going to be on a competing Network at which point we will not do that because we would not be allowed to but

Back to yesterday Matt so it was cold relatively speaking for a Florida boy so I just sit in my car when I get because there’s no there’s plenty of parking available because all the kids are out are gone after the semester is over so I’m sitting in my

Car listen to the rillo podcast shout out and I’m just waiting for the war chant to come on because when the war chant comes on then I’ll I’ll walk to this to the stadium and or to the practice fields and get the stuff going

That I need to so I hear it play I I walk in there everybody’s already in the ipf and they’re doing their stretch exercises and then like Ira comes up to me like 10 minutes later like hey did you speak to so and so about the the new

Rules or whatever so I didn’t I didn’t even hear anything so which was really good because I got second hand from Ira who can like calm because if I would have been there and heard it I’m sure I would have said something really smart aliy and I probably would have got ejected like

Right there I got teed up and toss so it all worked out for the best so I’ll be out there tomorrow and um we’ll we’ll film and bring you everything that we possibly can within the rules broe Carter wants me to answer somebody’s question um I can’t promise I’ll answer

It I don’t know what it’s going to be all right well go here then gard and gold until I am dead in cold that’s strong weird Avatar AI art looks like of Eminem eating Skittles no it’s gota be M&M’s oh see that’s why we got mad around here he’s one of those

Young kids he knows everything that’s going on in the culture uh what are Jordan Travis’s chances of getting playing time in the NFL I like that question more so than getting drafted um chances of playing time like on a scale of one to 10 where 10 is like Absol freaking

Lutely I’ll put it at an eight okay I I think even if he doesn’t get on a roster this year I feel like he will be so man I’m never gonna count that kid out man and I think it’s it’s a bone injury mainly I I don’t know the ligament damage that he

Suffered but it’s you know mainly broken leg dislocated ankle we think man let that kid let him rehabilitate I don’t wouldn’t count against that guy he gets an invite to a camp um I just would hope that maybe whatever he doesn’t have in like velocity coming off of his arm they

Would look at the film they would hear the endorsement from norell and Dillingham and to cars and Atkins that some team would keep them on their roster just PE Squad him PE Squad him for like I think you should PE squat him now get him get him on your on your into

Your facility get them on your practice roster on your practice squad and then by like 25 that kid’s probably legitimate part of your plan of what you want to maybe do at quarterback so I’ll go with eight I’ll go with eight I think if he’s given the chance

He’s gonna take advantage of it we all know that like you were just saying I I need to see the recovery first as my thing I think that’s gonna be a big reason of why you could fall in the draft but uh well not a big reason it’s pretty obvious reason but uh

We’ll uh I’ll give it a five right now I just want to see how the recovery goes is my my problem with it yeah shout out Carrie uh Brock pie does not have a lot of velocity look what he’s done he’s Mr rant too so Hey listen man

If Kyle Shanahan wants to take I think I might be able to win a game even I think I can win a game in the NFL if Kyle shanan was calling plays for me I think so I think I can make a couple throws

But I love Brock pretty I I I I could not I’m totally kidding I would I would get killed I would not make more than one minute out there on a on a football field uh but yeah man it all depends on your fit and who believes in you and

What you have around you so uh I’d love it if he went to the Niners everybody would love it if he went to the Niners because that’s where you want to be if you play offense yeah again everybody’s wondering about Jeremiah Smith again we’re trying to uh source and figure out

What’s going on with his commitment ceremony whether it’ll be live on conventional linear television or if he’s going to do it on his own Instagram I think we’re GNA have for Instagram is he do we know what do you know if what he’s doing no I I see it on a few

Competing networks okay uh but I don’t we we’re I think we’re gonna have to hope he puts his IG live on to get it on here is my assumption right now okay all right well we will keep an eye on that um I can tell you from watching what’s

On right now nobody’s even sitting down oh it looks like they’re walking in to the ceremony so we probably still have a while there um all right I think we could pull up Kane sport we’ll see somebody in the chat which Jabo that’s a really aggressive Avatar man we’re all

Here just trying to talk and be friends and you’ve got the barrel of a hand gun pointing at me I don’t I don’t know if I like that but uh we appreciate you chipping in and letting us know where it could possibly be viewed at right now so

We’ll see if we can get it up and then we’ll see what Jeremiah’s got for us I don’t know why I wonder why the Miami site would be out there he he literally called you guys out as being like crazy ex boyfriend ex-girlfriend just trying to throw all sorts of stupid money at

Him so well you also got Gary Ferman and them if they want to provide us some content we appreciate you guys they got uh the same school JoJo Trader committed to Miami and uh Shaman Shaman andon at school and zaquan Patterson that’s probably why they’re there oh all right

All right I gotta stay to Miami it’s a real thing apparently so let’s here bra yeah tell them C bro so what if Smith goes to Miami they still don’t beat us all right Smith’s not going to Miami let’s keep that clear so we’re keeping an eye on it

Everybody we appreciate y’all being here um somebody in the chat I shouldn’t even say this out loud to Ben because Ben’s reading everything but apparently somebody said that maybe Cham has her own YouTube channel and they’re doing it live on their own YouTube channel let’s see that might be a little sticky though

We’re on YouTube they’re on YouTube yada ya but we’re working everybody we got a whole bunch of people behind the scenes trying to make things work here we will be on campus at 4 o’ this afternoon to talk to Mike Norvell and I think pretty much I think we’ll get every coach every

Assistant coach every coordinator every position coach we’ll get to speak to all of them at 4 pm so we got you covered all the way up until supper time pretty much 1 to three o’clock Jeff Cameron show will take over fulltime he Jeff Cameron and Tom Lang and then we’ll have

The interviews with Coach nor and everybody up over on our YouTube page as well as warchant.com the ultimate seminal Sports Source um man all these people going crazy with with Jeremiah Smith St I see Jeremiah Smith more positive news about not news more positive stuff about

KJ in the chat which is something we haven’t seen in a few hours okay all right um Justice Mountain dropping two bucks in the jar appreciate that Josh storm says Jaden Jones as a freak could be a sleeper okay he he’s Mr looks the part

Yeah you want him at the front of the bus getting off and he did come off a pretty major knee injury and listen it was at a junior college where he suffered it so not nearly the amount of resources towards physical therapy and rehabbing so you know but they did say

You know they were on record the staff saying that yeah when they started preseason camp all expectations were that he would be over his injury and ready to go but maybe there’s still that mental hurdle so I’m definitely not counting that kid out but that would be

Great if he where’s a freak I don’t know if maybe Josh storm said that on another podcast or something but um yeah he’s 66 like 240 seems to have pretty good bend pretty good flexibility so maybe get some more power and some more explosion and then you’re really cooking with gas

At that point so Tom C says Aon says don’t be angry as he kicks his dog I don’t I wouldn’t do that I don’t hurt animals um actually I’m a I’m a friend of stray cats now I leave I leave food on my porch for for my from my

Neighborhood Riff Raff cat so oh just like in Charlotte oh actually jbo is right I did like your avatar when he bought that generator for the Miami game that’s right he did he was the guy that said he used the promo code for our guys of sorry jbo still aggressive though so

Kind of aggressive um somebody giving us the stats on Jaden Jones it’s a little bit much a little too revealing engin n 98 doing his part to try to get the Good Vibes going dollar dollar bills y’all 20 bucks 24 cents in the jar for the 2024

Class get us some good news if Jeremiah Smith flips a floor State it’s all because of engine n 98 you heard it here first y you all heard it here first um let’s see here we got some people talking right here all right his coach is speaking now apparently yep I’ve got

It on another screen so I can give updates while we’re not streaming it but yeah the coach just left the podium okay is he the I mean I guess Trader and Patterson are probably gonna announce too or no or is they’re yeah I mean I I would be surprised if they go anywhere

Other than Miami obviously Florida state was involved uh a lot not now anymore as much Trader there was a little bit of rumors there but I’m pretty sure he’s sticking with Miami I think he wants to stay closer to home for personal reasons um but zayquan also

I expect to stick to Miami obviously the big news as they watching the stream they very zoomed in on Jeremiah Smith sitting there right now okay are you watch are you watching Kane sport or you watching something on in are you watching 247 CBS CBS CBS that’s right

Um we can get it up here here we go go shout out our friends over at cane sport helping make things happen here yeah know I was only asking about Patterson and Trader within the framework of like he’s this is not just a Jeremiah Smith production that team that team is

Stacked yeah that team is stacked hey Jeremiah Smith not wearing anything right now so I guess that’s good like just wearing offwhite tea you are looking live at shamad High School in the Miami metropolitan area as we await the announcement from Five Star Plus commitment to the Ohio State

Buckeyes for now verbal commitment Jeremiah Smith and where that’s him right there on the screen right Michael yep I’m sorry Matthew you’re good you’re good but yeah that was him on the right who just sat down not the one that we saw fully sat down out of the frame a

Little bit there it is I can just I just picture Gary Ferman like on his cell phone right now like full dad mode sorry I didn’t mean to like totally take everybody off the screen there but just like like oh let me get it a son over here so but shout

Out to our guy Gary for grinding out there the Onre Network that’s why join warchant.com it’s not only warchant.com it’s everybody on the network all the biggest best baddest sites that cover College athletics for your favorite teams Brook Carter asking for some confirmation you would probably know

Better than I would Matt um did KJ bowan ever say at some point that Flor state was his dream school yeah so uh here’s some more with that is he said it all along Flor state was his dream school he’s been a lifelong fan of FSU um even

Before he committed uh when he was visiting he would say words like we as a fan kind of thing like oh we’re we’re going to be so good like we’re going to be really good this year um to add on to that both sets of Grandparents were

Actually on the visit with him this past weekend who are both diard FSU fans so that can only help in my opinion right right no that’s a very good point um just makes things that much crazier who say who did CJ herd flip to I don’t

Know I I know he visited Miami right after right after right before he decommitted he still decommitted he hasn’t committed anywhere else oh really so he’s still a free agan look at that very interesting very interesting all right looks like there’s players starting to get to the table out there at

Shamad I’m not going to apologize for the choppy video it’s 2023 this is how things work now everybody films things on their phones um although you’ll notice if you watch Sports Center yesterday they used footage from practice from Florida State yesterday that was filmed by warchant because we film it professionally and

Everybody don’t need to toot your own horn there or anything no just that was that was this is me taking out latent shots on people which is not very professional right now because we’re all here to watch recruiting but like yeah just you know I film a certain way

Because that’s the way you film when you put stuff on television and you know that’s how it happens we’re over 5,000 people now watching welcome I’m Aon hudy that’s mat ler he’s one of our recruiting analysts is some say an upand cominging rising star in the profession

Depending you want to ask you but definitely has the best maybe the second best head of hair at the war chant staff Tom Lang maybe leading the way uh we are awaiting announcement from Jeremiah Smith Five Star Plus Onre Prospect receiver out of chaman high school in

The Greater Miami area a red hat just went on a kit I don’t know if that was an Ohio State I think it’s yeah that’s their quarterback who Miami was actually fighting for him to try to flip him at the last second too okay I think if that

Is an NC State hat that is him okay let me yeah I can make it a little bit bigger but I don’t think it’s gonna give us that much more clarification um I can enlarge my screen though you guys can’t see it any larger but I just did um he had an Adidas

Backpack I think NC an NC State hat yeah all right so there there’s one down we’ll see how it goes and yeah we will pipe in the audio once once it gets to Jeremiah yes correct correct we will do that so um because I don’t even know

What the sound quality is right now so we’ll I’ll Trust our guys behind the scenes keeping everything running smoothly we’ve been doing this for over four hours and 10 minutes it’s incredible incredible who does it who loves it actually and I apologize shout out to our guy Marlin Mr 305 chaan is

Actually in Hollywood he says so I will can you say the can I can I can I say Miami greater area the Miami metropolitan area what represent Hollywood I think I think Fort Lauderdale people might claim uh Hollywood more than Miami people okay all right is my opinion on it I’m not I

I can’t speak for South Florida I go you all right we got a uh a guy that’s going to pit looks like there you go hail the pit Matt yeah yeah I had to take some stuff down behind me before yeah that’s fine florid State beats the ACC team

It’s fine that you have them somewhere on your screen um so yes they’re kind of on schedule out there it’s supposed to start at noon so it started at noon and they continue to have their players go up there and make their college declarations so congrats to everybody out there uh at

Shaman for figuring out where they want to go and being able to play division one football and getting paid for it because tuition is expensive nowadays you’re watching sign Day live here on warchant TV presented by our great friends over at Walk-Ons go check them on out have a beer with your friends

Talk about the show that you’ve been watching the last four hours when you talk about things so also monitoring the KJ Balin situation Michael Langston working the phones trying to get the latest and the most accurate information when it comes to that shout out to our guy Walker Mississippi Ranger you guys

Are the best thanks for what you do thank you Walker good human being good human being I know we’re all waiting for Jeremiah Smith to make his announcement clearly this would just absolutely set this place on fire yeah but again let’s remember that he has been a long time

Ohio State commit also coming up later today around this hour Tai Hilton Jaden parish and then at one o’clock the AFF forementioned KJ Bolen as well as Cam Davis highly sought after highly talented highly skilled running back out of dhy high school in Georgia as well at

The one o’clock hour so plenty coming up thanks for being here when we do get confirmation that Jeremiah’s up there on the days we will then pipe in the audio but for now you gotta listen to this voice as well as Matts any word on Jason Zam the Mel the Carlile Chapman wonders

Aloud uh I don’t think so right now uh I think he’s gonna stick with USC there’s nothing that I know there was a little bit of smoke there maybe a month or two ago but it’s kind of it’s died down and it’s I expect him to stick with USC

Which is kind of funny considering he’s from he’s at Clear Water um he’s a he’s he lives in Clear Water and then zandamela lives on the west coast and they’re kind of flipping they were both committed to USC at one point I know that’s crazy right that’s a long way to

Go away but you know I guess when you also go to that Clearwater International Academy usually coming in from Far flung places to end up going there Luis mayz curious if we kick the tires on miny if we were miss out on bow and apparently he’s waiting until January 6th I cannot

Confirm that so he when we talked to him after I think it was the Miami game he had said that he’s probably gonna sign today but not publicly and I think he’s announcing at the UnderArmour All-American Game so he’s signing somewhere in this period but don’t know

Won’t know where until then um do you think that’s actually gonna hold up though Matt like if he were to send his nli to Florida say do you think we would not know about that until he actually commits at the Under Armour game or I

Mean that that’s a long time to keep it would probably leak honestly or we’ll see what happened with Lester earlier where the school accidentally posted what I think happened but uh well uh I don’t know about them going after him or not it just feels like

There hasn’t been a whole lot of mutual interest there in my opinion uh but I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a push if Balden if we do miss on Balden uh jt1 13 has blunt committed yet no that’s six o’clock if I’m not mistaken right correct okay uh a lot of

People saying not a lot of people it’s 5,600 people nearly watching us and there a couple people in the chat but apparently Miami board is feeling confident they’re going to get Smith I guess maybe because they have their guy out there actually covering it right now remember there are two Miami commits

Also signing in that group I said it earlier but that could also be why they’re there I mean he’s he has I when was the last time he visited Miami welli lives there well actually there because it’s more of Fort lale thing yeah I get

It um well I just don’t know how do you publicly state that you know Ohio there’s something about Ohio State and it’s not just about nil all kinds of people are throwing all kinds of crazy money at me like Miami and Florida but it’s not all about nil to me and I get

It man we can change our minds but that’s that’s a weird one to have to walk back less than 24 hours to be to to classifi like you can say nil’s it’s not all about nil but you cannot say that this school has been throwing crazy money at you and you’re pretty much

Saying like that’s not important to me I’d Ohio state has a a special bond feeling Vibe for me and then be like psych throw up a youu you know like that’d be that’s that’d be a pretty that’s Travis Hunter esque is what that is yeah so um looking at he hasn’t

Visited Miami since October 7th is what the on three record show and he’s been to both Florida State and Florida in that time period without going back to Miami so I would put both of those ahead of Miami to flip him okay is my opinion no I was laughing

At a comment I’m read I wasn’t I’m never laughing at you man you’re working hard man I appreciate you being here uh Michael Len also behind the scenes confirming sourcing working on stories for us so Ben as well director Ben hit a thumbs up for director Ben do you

Realize all these Graphics showing you who’s committed what time they plan on committing the tweets that you’re reading from warchant.com the video that’s on your screen right now he’s coordinating all of this somehow one man doing it all hit the thumbs up for the folks that you don’t see on your screen

All the time he’ll be back with probably another edition of Coach speak I think that people would be hoping later this week but I can’t speak to it because it’s a seal headlines production I’m not El enough um yeah he seems pretty levelheaded right now the few times that

We do see him on camera Jeremiah Smith for a kid that has a huge then then he sinks his head down but he’s all right what a I can’t imagine like what goes through your head and and you maybe have your mind made up but at the back of

Your mind you’re thinking like is this the right thing this other school actually said they would give me this I just said no to that can I do that like M here’s a Lon just uh sent me a tweet from behind uh the curtain yeah he said

There is here sent me a text not a tweet he said there is a little buzz on Jeremiah to Miami but we still are leaning Ohio State oh yeah our guy Kyle who asking the cam Ward question earlier remember like what would be worse cam Ward Waits goes to

Another school or Cam Ward weights Goes Pro and it’s like oh but Florida state would have been the school I’d have gone to if I would have stayed in college like the Jeremiah Smith is like you know you don’t get him he goes Ohio State

Like I can live with that we might have to live with KJ bowl and going to Georgia I said I want go to Auburn feel dirty here’s some more positivity in the text said LJ is still possible for FSU along with KJ okay so we’re getting better right

Okay okay there we go all right so that’s the first bit of good news that we have from our guys on this side of things y about KJ Bowen in probably two hours so we’ll take that little sliver of Hope and I mean at this point would you

Trade Jeremiah Smith away if you know you get KJ Balden and LJ McCrae I think so um in my opinion though if not if he goes to Miami yeah that would not be that would not be ideal um but hey man Miami doesn’t have a quarterback right now

Unless they were get Cam Ward and they got cam W and Jeremiah Smith things might get broken yeah on camera is that JoJo Trader I think walking up let me see here I wish I again Matt you might be able to enlarge your screen like you personally I can’t make

It any larger for anybody else but yeah that is it is yep that is JoJo yeah he’s only got a Miami hat so no drama there good kid by all indications yes very good kid very good kid so hope he does well other than when he plays Florida State actually I don’t

Know I don’t even know who he is but hope hope nothing bad happens to the kid I’m not that guy um fatal Jedi what are you watching the Jeremiah Smith School sign Day on kport YouTube oh yeah don’t say it out loud we don’t want people leaving us but yeah

That’s what it oh that’s true hey we got it right here guys we got it right here over 6,000 people that are watching us now Matt everybody’s on lunch break finally um you should have been watching the whole time you could have had us on another Tab and just muted us and popped

Over here every few seconds or put your airpods in yeah sorry to draw this out so long but again this is a very prominent successful program they’ve got a lot of players that are going to the next level we are waiting if you’re just joining us here nearing the bottom of

The hour here on Jeremiah Smith plus five star plus rather prospect wide receiver we’re waiting for him to make his official announcement on where he plans on attending what you see on your screen right now is JoJo Trader signing what appears to be his nli to Miami as

He flashes the U along with uh his family and support staff around him so uh shout out to our friends in the Philippines it’s 1:26 in the morning Matt time machine is partying Grand Rapids Michigan in the building oh here we go Jeremiah stood up that’s where this the moment okay here

We go uh we’re gonna we’re gonna take the audio now we’ll be here we’ll stop talking and we’ll let uh jerem Smith again festar plus wide receiver chaman High School down in South Florida longtime commitment to Ohio State gonna make his college announcement I don’t see any hats but

He’s got a microphone he was holding a bag he was holding like a a a bag I think first off I want to thank my parents my coaches all my team I loveys next years take my time all right he uh tried to psych us out he could

Not you win some you lose some you never had him in the fold you made a good run at him Ohio state had the relationship established with Brian Hartline and the track record of what he’s done Jeremiah Smith Five Star Plus has gone ahead and committed verbally and apparently now

Reaffirmed his commitment is going to sign with Ohio State as he pulls out the hat with all his family and friends around him there at shamad high school so um have fun explain to Ryan Day your new head coach why you think Mike norell is the best coach in the country

Jermiah but I’m sure once he catch a few touchdowns he’ll forget that you said that about him but uh that that’s a bummer and again unless I get it you he was never committed but you just there was that good vibes window of like a week and a half two weeks especially

Here recently Matt that it felt like maybe things were really possible because the summer you know there was that talk about he made that comment about Mike norell being maybe the best coach out there uh you felt that oh wow like could we and then as you see become

13 and0 Ohio State’s offense maybe not nearly as prolific as you would have thought the door might have been a jar for Florida State but Smith sticking with his commitment to the Buckey yeah I mean I think it was the last week or so after the official

Things were getting really good and we thought he was he was in uh disappointing for sure but it’s we we’ve said it all morning that it’s been expected that this is what we thought was going to happen Miami apparently made a light push too from what we just heard uh again bright side

Of it for Florida State fans you don’t have to face him every year he’s not going to Miami he’s going to Ohio State a school that at least right now not haven’t moved conferences or haven’t anything announced yet um but as of now we don’t play them every year uh it’s if

We were going to lose them it’s better to lose it to Ohio State than it is to the other schools that in the running yeah yeah good question Kevin why would anybody leave Florida to go to Ohio I don’t know I’ve said that many times

Some do though I mean s I think San Antonio Holmes I think San Antonio Holmes was from South Florida he went and played Ohio State and did well um yeah it’s gray and cold in Columbus a lot but hey you know Brian hartline’s your Guy Brian harlin’s your guy and that’s where you’ll

Go not going to do Doom and Gloom in it but somebody here was asking what are the chances this you know this is a little bit sobering but we’re not going to get too down in the doldrums because there are plenty of good prospects signed and committed to Florida State

Here but what are the chances Now Matt that Florida State ends this class without having a fivar so we’re talking Blunt’s already gone or not officially but probably gone KJ we’re iffy about right now and obviously didn’t get Jeremiah is that the three yeah and I so I guess maybe LJ M

CRA your outside dark horse if things go sideways later with KJ I mean I still have confidence in KJ like we said we’re starting to feel still possible uh it’s not it felt like we were having a funeral earlier on here it’s not there yet uh but

Uh it I think it all comes down to KJ in my opinion I’ve said before I said yesterday I’m not super confident LJ McRae I just haven’t gotten the right feel on it it’s it’s a gut feeling uh I think if he flips it’s more towards

Auburn than Florida State but uh KJ I think is the deal breaker when it comes to whether or not they have a five star yeah you know we felt really good about that sort of designation a few months ago but now we sit here and have

To maybe face a reality that that’s not the case but you know Landon Thomas was he not at one point a five star I think five star one point so yeah so he was so is Lester I believe Lester might still be industry or something wise it but at

One point he was uh yeah Landon was as well but in general I think he’s still one of the top tight ends it’s just most tight ends AR five stars yeah is the main thing there uh for Luke he was a five star for like three days so

The way the on three industry rankings work is that if you’re in that top 30 you’re five industry five star and then Armando blunt flipped or sorry reclassified yeah and bumped him he was 30th and it bumped him down oh no really I’m sorry that’s awesome but like

Sad at the same time but crazy that’s nuts oh man what a what a time to be alive Yeah Tim how do these players not see how good of a coach Mike norell is they do yeah they all do yeah it’s also me Ryan day’s not you

Know not chop liver no but I get what you’re saying I get what you’re saying it’s it’s frustrating you because for so long right it was you need to prove to these kids that you’re going in the right direction which last year did and then they go 13 and0 you’re figuring all

Right well the like Florida state is back like any school in the state of Florida if the Gators or Miami were 13 and0 you would figure like you’re probably getting whoever you want no matter what especially if they’re like in the State of Florida especially if they’re in your backyard yeah but Miami

Is not 13 and0 so they did not get Jeremiah Smith Jeremiah Smith is not in Flor State’s backyard um so I understand that frustration for sure and then the nil component just so hard to really quantify just how important is to everybody because man it’s really

Important to a lot of people but to Jeremiah Smith it you know he’s gone on the record and saying that it wasn’t so how do you walk that balance between proving what you’ve created proving what you can provide financially and proving what you can provide in terms of getting to the next level

So I I get it it feels like we’re kicking the can down the the street here and telling you oh this is what Flor State needs to do to be able to recruit at the highest level all right well they went 130 now what so I get your

Frustration I’m not gonna tell anybody to not be frustrated um I just say to not take shots at the crew out here you can take them at me I’m fine I’ll be fine but the guys that sit out front of that stadium for like 13 hours a day and they sit

Around there just to get a photograph of this recruit walking to the stadium and get a two-minute interview um you know the kids telling them what they’re telling them so and they’re going based off of that and the resources and the sources that they have behind the scenes

I’ll stop bin mark Perez five bucks in the jar any chance we land Aon hun of Andy Jr number one rated quarterback class of 2044 need a COR absolutely man I will there’s no way there’s no way I would I would no way I would let my if anybody

Ever knew that like you you had a you were a Florida State Legacy you could not come to Florida State you would not be able to live it down if Twitter if FSU Twitter is this strong right now think about how strong they’re going to be in 44 after a few more national

Titles under the belt so uh I would not dare cross my lovely alma mater why Baylor for that comment I I just want to know why Baylor oh man uh yeah briyan wils explain yourself Jeremiah Smith should have went to Baylor SMH maybe he’s a coach speak fan maybe

He likes matanda wanted matanda to get a shot in the arm keep him around for a little bit um oh maybe it’s it’s it’s a it’s a it’s a coach speak thing appreciate that okay I like that I can’t watch coach speak it’ll make me too jealous so but

You all watch it do it it’s gonna be great Cody Johnson when will we get Cam Ward DJ News man I don’t think we really know I I’ve seen some stuff of like Pete noos and Josh Newber on streams that we think it could be somewhere around this week

Don’t quote me on that that’s just like guessing um maybe by Christmas again all a guess it has to come sooner rather than later just because of when classes start and when you have to be enrolled and all that so it maybe it could be tonight if to uh

Shadow some other things nobody really knows both of them when we asked them said they didn’t know decision timeline well here’s the thing like it’s really it’s cam Ward yeah because I don’t DJ DJ’s in if we want yes they’re waiting on cam Ward yep everybody’s waiting on cam Ward I do

Wonder though if that timeline does change and this is all you know all of us hanging around talking chewing the fat together on this live chat with everybody left there’s only 5,000 people here now so the 1,000 Miami fans that want to come on us when they got my

Smith have left the chat because he didn’t commit to Miami sorry fan Kane fans but how much of the fact you know I I wonder aloud here with everybody in the chat Matt is that listen you have nil you have a finite amount of resources to provide so when guys start

Falling off your board once Jeremiah Smith Goes elsewhere once Armando blunt goes elsewhere Etc you never like to tell people a Chase when it comes to gambling right like if you lose your bet just go to bed sleep it off don’t try to do something crazy to make your money back usually

Never works out but I wonder in this high stakes game of college football if you feel the need of like all right well we miss out on this guy and we had this allocated we thought we were we were gonna be able to give him this amount

Well hey cam Ward if we got we’ll give you this much now yeah so and I think a lot of this is about PR and timing and you want things to come out at a certain time so if you don’t have a good Wednesday I wonder how much more

Obligated you would feel to have a good Thursday and have a kid maybe hurry up his plans if you give him a few more $10,000 I mean it’s just like ARMA and AZ last year it’s the same thing like it’s all it’s all Optics hey I haven’t been able to play

This uh Sounder all day long let me make sure I have the Tweet pulled up so I can I can flip to it I know it’s probably not the news you all want but we’re gonna go ahead and we’re gonna pull up on the screen it’s gonna

Be a little bit too old for you I think Matt to really appreciate it um but Tamir Hickman Collins is official and with that I play my my favorite Sounder that’s right that’s right that’s the fax machine sound with the ABC breaking news bulletin coming in there Tamir Hickman Collins three star linebacker in the fold for the nolles so position of need position of need everybody addressing needs part of your signing class do not hold back your excitement

For Mr Hickman Collins because maybe somebody else went elsewhere we need to all be appreciative of who wants to commit to your favorite program Michael lsen got his headset back on just in time hopefully he’s got his flame proof suit on as well to deal with The Angst

Of uh I think most people are keeping it pretty level ahead when it comes to Jeremiah Smith and realizing what’s going on there Michael I know some things might have been moving at the last minute with him what do you ultimately think led to Jeremiah uh not

Making the full plunge and flipping to floor State and sticking with Ohio State in the long run I think it was mainly the pedigree of what they’ve done done at receiver um that certainly was a big deal I think U certainly uh how state is

Is a proving product and FSU has been a rising product in improving this year but uh that’s that’s one 13 and0 season where Ohio States every year you know consistently every year and then consistently putting out and uh gushing out top receivers left and right um I

Think that was certainly a high selling point and uh I think he’s going to a a really good League hopefully FSU is eventually you know uh you know that’s another topic but I think uh overall there’s a lot of things to like about you know just how State and what they’ve

Done and it’s been committed over a year it’s really hard to flip guys you know when they’ve been committed for a year um but um especially a program like Ohio State so I mean FSU made a push it was a time where we we felt like you know

Probably early evening that hey it was goingon to there’s a good chance it could be FSU and then and then as the night went on and then later when I got ready to put my predictions up I got a few calls that you know he likely he’s

Going to stick with high State and the confidence had gone down from FSU and that’s that’s why I put the predictions in the way I did but um overall there was a lot of things that lead you believe that it could be FSU I think

They made a really good run I think they did everything right I think they checked all the boxes uh he loved Norvell he love what he does with uh development receivers but in theend end uh he stuck with uh you know just kind of where his heart was of how he felt

About high State and how they’re going to develop him that’s fair again Tam hickin Collins the most recent sigy for this class good excitement here in the chat can we talk about him people ask yeah what do you see when uh you look at Tamir Hickman Collins there Michael Lon

A guy that covers a lot of ground uh as far as a linebacker you know not quite to the level of kayin Doo as far as coming out of high school but some similar things of of what he does you know hard hitter covers ground laterally really very well uh very nice addition

That FSU was on you know fairly early in the process and and and they went in there and got it done I know a three star is not going to excite people but I go by what I see on film uh more so what some guys are

Just like guarantee like hey this guy impresses you and blows you away when you put in the film you kind of see that when he plays when Tamir plays he’s going to be a nice fit he’s got the body frame to to play there and play there

Early and and do some uh you know good things for that that linebacker core and as I’ve said throughout the whole this whole broadcast uh for the day is is you you’re trying to find guys that fit you know what you do and what your your defense and what your scheme what your

Set does at the position and I think Tamir fits that to a te of what FSU is looking for I think uh Jaden parish is another one I think um fits that uh I’m assuming his his uhi will be coming in soon that’s a guy that I’m very excited

About I’m very high I think I think Jaden is one of the to me the Dark Horses of the class doesn’t get talked about enough and I think Jaden’s going to make a big splash so I’d like the linebacker as sign I mean do I everyone

Has an opinion how they rank them but I mean when I look at Jaden I think Jaden’s a fourstar talent okay take to kind of give you I can give you the backstory of Tamir while we’re here abely um so so basically he came and worked out at the second Elite camp this

Past summer and he absolutely loved it he got along really well with uh with Randy Shannon they’re really tight uh and he pretty much I think he pretty much committed on the spot after they offered him there uh they really liked him at the camp and it was it was a

Pretty fast uh moving cycle once uh once they liked him there you go there’s your official signes thus far here on Signing Day our coverage presented by our great friends over at Walk-Ons lots of high-end Talent Jonathan Daniels at one time of five star guy Landon Thomas one time of five

Star guy Luke croman Hawk one time a five star guy Manas TTI Elite offensive lineman Prospect Charles Lester at one point a five star Prospect so lots of like there I know it doesn’t have the cherries on top that we had hoped for right but we need to take that all into

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Yep um do it everybody do it uh we’ll get some final thoughts here from Matt before we get Michael to give us the latest thoughts on uh what he knows what’s going on with KJ Bolan who I’m sure everybody wants to hear from uh but Matt KJ’s obviously still out there

Armando blunt six o’clock most likely going to flip to Miami um are you going to start shift at what point do you start shifting your attention to the transfer portal or you still dialed into what’s going to happen when it comes to high school kids right now um honestly

Probably right after KJ is the real answer just because it’s the rest are expected there’s no other real smoke for schools out there uh it would be a surprise if something else happened um so yeah I’ll go with I’ll go with right after KJ when I’ll start focusing on it

More and start getting some updates in and looking in people like Evan Stewart yeah he’s in Texas right now Matt you think he’s there for some random reason no because EV Stewart’s in the portal now that’s gonna try to figure it out Matt’s gonna be helping us out

Throughout the day here on the live shows we uh go till three o’clock when Jeff and Tom take over at 1 pm uh Matt thanks for coming up here and helping out man we’ll be hearing from you throughout the day Mr ler everybody um Michael KJ Baldin what do

You know what do you know just get it out um yeah I I I do know there’s still some conversations that are going on I think he’s still contemplating I think a lot of people assume that the decision’s like already been done but I think um there’s some still contemplating I here

Going on uh I still lean towards you know likely being Georgia but uh I’ve heard there’s some contemplating and still thinking about you know what he’s going to do um certainly um I’ve said before I do I do think niil does play a certain role in it not a lot not

Everything but part of it um fit and you know Comfort also is two big things that a couple sources have told me that are a big deal of why he’s kind of wrestling with everything it does feel like FSU or Georgia um you know based on the teams I

Hear um so that’s one that you know we’re just GNA have to wait it out but I still Trend Georgia but you know right now I can’t say for sure like it’s going to be locked in that it will definitely be them gotcha uh as we sit here and wait for more news

To develop in regards to the KJ Balden recruitment we do have another official sige across the table Ty Hilton there we go offensive lineman you want it you got it everybody OVO so b game hangout watch well your thoughts on a Ty hton and what kind of

Prospect he is right now Michael uh yeah he’s a guy that camped a few times there uh they like to a lot um they went to see him in person several times as well a guy that I feel can play center too um he’s a guy that that plays both and

That’s kind of what they they’ve coveted uh you know both what I’ve said from the portal is is they want to get a center so having one that’s young that you maybe could cross train there at Center is is something that’s attractive to FSU um you know Tai’s a really good prospect

That they they just love his get off the way he gets down and then finishes finishes off his blocks I think it’s really stood out to them Florida made a hard push uh there early on u in the process and then and then FSU finished

It off got it done and had him got him committed uh but I think it’s another one that kind of fits that AC andile blocking of of what they do as far as you know pulling you know um you know certainly putting them at Center if he

Needs to play there and and the guy that’s uh certainly very athletic uh he has no problem getting out there as a tackle and and certainly uh doing a lot of different things so it’s a lot of Versatility Michael I don’t want to I don’t want to put you out on a bridge

Too far that’s good but when you do talk about and again not to take away from the good news of Ty Hilton joining the fold here but when you talk about KJ Bolen and nil being a factor here the news that Jeremiah Smith is gonna go to Ohio State I would think if

You you had maybe some hope I don’t know if the coaching staff was just as surprised when he made his announcement as some of us were watching this but we talk about things being fluid as well too Michael I mean how how fluid do you think nil is when it comes to school

A school be offering this package I mean do you think that changes hour to hour almost on a day like today or do a lot of these collectives and schools this is what it is this is what it always will be best of luck let us know I think uh

It’s definitely fluid when you’re talking about a Five Star Plus type of guy that you know um you nil is a factor I don’t want to say it’s everything because I know there’s other parts to his recruitment but yeah it’s it’s definitely fluid it definitely could

Adjust I I kind of get what you’re getting at that you know the the funds for Jeremiah maybe you can throw a little bit more towards KJ so I get that uh so it’s definitely fluid as far as it’s involved I I was told like that was

A part because I mean that was part of a reason of the draw of of Auburn of of that plus the excitement of what Hugh free is also you know building we see a lot of you know talented prospects that are signing there and going there so um

Definitely uh you know nil does play a role in it and certainly it’s fluid in regards to that stuff I mean I’ve heard it change a few times you know through the last weeks so I’d be foolish to not acknowledge that it could alter again so

We’ll see I wonder if people in Columbus are like well if we got Jeremiah Smith this probably means that we’re not going to give $25 million to Marvin Harris Jr that’s another show one o00 coming up here soon Jeff Cameron show he and Tom Lang will take you guys through till at

Least three o’clock then we’ll be on campus Irish oel Corey Clark myself I think you you don’t have to go Michael if you don’t want but you usually show up every year feel like I probably do I’ll probably pop in I just like to see what the coaches say and you know just

Uh yeah just be around them um you know so I’ll probably be there when when is that 4 4 pm yeah so I’ll be there I’m gonna try to get a power naap in at one o’clock because I’m I’m a psychopath everybody but one o’clock Cam Davis

Ricky Knight coming up at the one o’clock hour and then still scheduled is KJ Balden five star defensive back out of Buford Georgia Florida State commitment solidly for a while um how how long did he commit it’s been months right I this this is It’s been months

Yeah he committed uh early uh prob want to say before the season started um so uh it was pretty early with him and like I said outset going into that event there was nervousness of hey is he actually going to follow through what the Intel suggesting that it’ll pick FSU

Because a lot of people were thinking the first choice was going to be Georgia I mean people playback the video you’ll see the one teacher introducing him and she’s like go dogs you know during it so there was a lot of people around there that I think thought he would pick

Georgia the first time around they were the they were the favorite at that time so this isn’t like Georgia coming out of the blue or Georgia coming in the darkness and just appearing you know they were in it early you know when he made that decision but I I don’t and and

And I want to stress it again it’s nothing I don’t think FSU has done really that wrong uh in the recruitment I think they’ve shown you development with DBS development within the team de develop a culture uh winning 13-0 I think they’ve shown all that but I do I

I I’d be a miss and I’d be not being completely forward and saying that I do believe that that snub thing certainly threw some doubt in his eyes I think that was part of the reason there was more interest in Auburn and I think Georgia saw that and then Georgia jumped

In there and just kept working it and um you know sounds like it’s uh working out so far for them the way it’s trending say that don’t say that Michael no give me some juice give me some juice from the dentist Ben can you find a

Dentist out there that wants to give us some juice get us through the rest of this day thank you there it is you can buy you can buy a lot of mozzarella sticks for that a lot of cheese indeed my friend dollar dollar bills y’all what a

Dude dude awesome we appreciate and all the people that contribute it doesn’t matter if it’s a dollar we we greatly appreciate it guys we really do I know this is probably pissing so many people off they’re like we’re losing all these five SARS you guys are throwing money at

These idiots on the screen I hate the world um sorry shout out to Z Chan here’s some juice to get y’all through the next couple hours love our class so far hope it continues to climb here’s some juice again to get us through these next couple hours he loves his class

Hopes it continues The Climb yeah and again I love the class I love the class I mean that’s the thing that’s the the thing that’s lost on all this because I mean your emotions are being you know drained out because you’re you’re losing a couple of five stars and uh but I

Understand people feeling the way they do uh at the same time though man can I get lost on this I mean the number one tight end the country Landon Thomas is still the number one tight end in the country guys like the number one uh Georgia wanted him they flipped him from

Georgia um so there’s a lot of talented prospects that are in this class and I know that doesn’t make anybody feel better when you’re when you’re potentially losing somebody to the level of KJ Bolton but you have to look uh back when things settle down and let the

Dust settle and then see what they do in the portal guys that’s the part that people have to let their bodies and their emotions get under control if you address those places where you lost you’re fine you know and I think they will um so that’s the biggest part to people to

Remember there’s a headline right now on our website Florida State Hall of top 200 SES of seminal largest in nearly a decade courtesy of our managing editor Irish oel which we have not said his name nearly enough oh yeah we’re doing all this stuff on this part of the

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Beastro on your screen I guess you know those will be updated soon enough but Flor State’s still going to finish with a top 10 class right Michael even if things go completely I would say I would say 10 or 11 if if if they lose both of those

That’s kind of what I’m thinking maybe it’ll keep them in the 10 I don’t know we’ll see um but that’s kind of what I my my mind’s working you know if if it did come to that but also they’re not done I mean you still have Amari

Williams that that’s the February one we have to wait on if you get that guy that maybe shoots you comfortably inside the top 10 and then if you add somebody else you know from the high school Market in February um so it’s kind of a wait and

See all right uh one o’clock hour again the Jeff Cameron show and Tom Lang will get you back we get some fresh eyes some fresh voices some fresh perspective Michael is going to continue to work the phones continue to get you updated as he hears everything how many different

People are you talking to right now Michael uh well uh it’s it’s around 15 17 people you know different prospects you know um you know there there’s still a chance that even though he had indicated to me that Amari Williams wouldn’t do it today I I would not be

Shocked if he just says you know what I like it there that’s where I’m going to go um you know so we’ll see uh if that materializes um but um yeah talking to a lot of people and a lot I mean most of the contacts are surrounded around I

Would say LJ McCrae and and certainly KJ bow that’s been most of my that time as far as calls but it’s pretty consistent I mean it’s 17’s like a broad just uh guest number could be a little more than that so it’s been it’s pretty consistent because I’m checking you that’s the

Thing I’m not checking just people with FSU Intel I’m checking with people in the Intel of the teams that are involved I’m checking with people that are close to the prospect um so that’s it’s a lot of different calls and you have to mesh all the information together and you

Know uh figure out how you present it you know of where things stand so that’s that’s kind of where my life’s at right now we’re on we’re near the end but uh still trying to finish it off and certainly if FSU can rally for to keep somebody like KJ Balton it would

Be historically massive for FSU if they somehow could pull that off but um like I said there’s still work to do and certainly um you know we still Trend you know Georgia on that but um you know we’ll see if uh their work uh pays off good perspective Michael I

Appreciate that Michael has been just running on nothing but optimism and hope and doing his job and trying to be the best at had so we appreciate it yeah man I I hope I I don’t like us talking about this out loud and I know you mentioned

It and it’s a real thing uh but I don’t I I I don’t want to know how the sausage is made when it comes to I I would not want to hear any kid mention at all that you know and I’m sure listen man negative recruiting is part of the game

Y and I’m sure somebody and I’m not saying Kirby or Hugh but I’m sure somebody within those programs and every other program around the country is going to use maybe that as fuel against Florida State I guess the good news is that you know Florida state is exploring

Options when it comes to what is out there for conference realignment and and what they can bring to a conference so hopefully that won’t be something that will need to be addressed very much longer yeah I I agree and uh the other thing is you know we’ve reported on a

Lot of these portal guys that came in for this I’ve heard there’s more than what we have that actually stopped in um so they’re involved with a lot more portal guys than we know about you know that that’s my sneaky suspicion on you know just Intel I’ve gotten so that’s

Other thing to consider like I said the portal is a big part of this guys all counts the same um it they’re players um obviously high school is like right now so that gets people excited because of you know they’re in um but what they do

On the portal is very pivotal um to finalizing this Rost and rounding out this roster and SO waiting and and seeing what they do there is is a very key Point obviously it got off to a great start with Marvin Jones Jr that’s a great start obviously hope we you hear

Something about a quarterback that will really uh pick up steam and then that kind of would make it elevate even higher where you start to see more portal decisions but um overall great class not not Elite class but a great class um that I think is is is is a

Solid jump to compare to if you compare it to what they did a year ago but there’s still work to do and as I told Tom in the last hour it’s a an evolving process of growth of growing they’re not quite there to the level of those teams

That are getting guys every year like Ohio States and Georgia but they’re not far behind they’re right there it’s just they’re just not there yet they need to keep uh figure out some stuff that’s what’s working see what’s work not working obviously defensive tackle recruiting that’s something I think

They’re going to have to us high schoolwise that it’s whatever you got to do to adjust it uh needs to change and then you know linebacker recruiting same thing you got to really talented guy in 2025 committed but you know he’s not signed yet so you want to see more out

Of those I think those two positions for me when I look at it I think that’s thing that you need to address and see what you’re doing wrong and you know make some make some moves and see uh how you can shake it up and make make it

Better and increase it like thing Mike uses all the time to climb well the climing also works in high school recruiting and think they need to step it up a little bit higher even though there is a a big improvement from a year ago I think uh there’s still growth for

FSU to you be better at at certain spots all only got about a minute left here before we toss it over to the Jeff Cameron show 1 to three o’clock Mondays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Cal headlines usually on Tuesdays Michael are you in I know it’s a really tough thing to kind of forecast

But will there be more Elite Talent jumping in the portal in the next s days 10 days uh because it seems like the big names that have put themselves in the portal have kind of found new homes so I wonder where Flor State sits for who’s

Left or they hoping for more to enter well I think you also have to consider those guys that have made decisions they’re not binding decisions so if they want to come visit someone on January 3rd they can do it like the deas Johnson kid from Georgia committed to Kentucky h

He could visit FSU in early January and those are guys I know they’re still talking to people that are committed elsewhere so that’s another thing there but I do expect more names to pop in there um that are big you know big time I think uh we’ll see a lot more of that

I think it’ll be very fluid uh as far as how many are in there how many jump in I think we’ll see it pretty much daily so I I do expect a lot more guys to be in there I do expect FSU to address most of

The needs that are holes uh both for they didn’t get in high school and both just overall that are just really big holes all right uh what’s better than five hours of live coverage of Signing Day for your favorite football team brought to you by Walk-Ons seven hours two more of it

Coming up with the best in the business Jeff Cameron and Tom Lang the Jeff Cameron show Mike will be hanging out as well we’ll be here throughout the day have a good one been present to today on staff on this ongoing stream it’s my turn and here we go I’m excited to be

Here I I know that um over the years you know my perspective on signing day has been a little bit different it’s um all the way going back Tom to the fun times when we used to uh you know declare today I follow the kitty.com day and uh

That was always fun as the founder and CEO of that website yeah happy anniversary thank you buddy uh it’s GNA be a good class it’s not going to be the class everybody at Hope or it’s not going to be if they don’t get KJ Balden

It doesn’t uh you know it’s not going to be the class that everybody thought would be the cherry on top of 13 and0 uh instead it’ll be what I just said really good class really really good class but there’s a feeling out there and you know

How it goes and I’m not just talking about the people that are inherently and always consistently negative I’m talking about just your average Observer saying you know you you may want to look at your staff you may need to look at your staff and try to find a couple of

Coldblooded killers in recruiting because it seems to be an area where perhaps when it comes down to that that final piece of the puzzle that that last kid that that extra whatever it takes to get that five star to say it appears that uh we at least for

Now are lacking a little bit of that now again I’m not going to sit here and tell you that I’m depressed or upset even about where this is at signing day is always filled with a few of those moments where you’re like oh wow they got them good it’s also always filled

With a sense of um damn man really thought we were gonna get that guy too but we didn’t so big picture for me is again I think the class is really good obviously when you go back to last year’s recruiting class and the recruiting class before that Florida

State has made massive leaps forward from where they were but we evaluate and re-evaluate all the the time based on expectations which change with success or failure and what you do is you kind of assess differently as you climb that ladder we continue to talk about that and we say all right

Well you know you you you had to go first from having losing Seasons to having winning seasons all right we got there and you go okay well that winning season will help us recruit better and it did and then you had this season so you went from five- seven to 10 and

Three to 13 and0 so it stands for reason you would recruit better and they have the next step and there’s not many more to take guys the next step is that you have to recruit as well as Georgia as well as Alabama as well as Ohio State and you have to do it

Consistently well you have to do that year-over-year because it’s the stockpiling of talent that we’re talking about and they’re not quite there yet they’re not quite at that place yet and so the frustration that people feel in the fan base about that is understandable but it’s also probably

Something still to come and I I think Mike has to it’s got to be a hard thing to do I think Mike has to ask hard questions I think when you evaluate yourself in your staff uh the way that goes best is when you have the opportunity to be if you’re

Capable of being brutally honest the hardest thing we talk about it all the time Tom we talk about it all the time like how well do I evow do I self Scout my entire operation I talk a lot about the modern coach being the CEO coach

That that’s what this is now like now Mike is the exception in college football right now Mike does a lot Mike might some people say do too much Mike has to be the primary recruiter yeah Mike is the play caller Mike puts together the game plan Mike calls plays

During games Mike Mike Mike you need some other dudes that you feel feel very good about in every one of those areas to continue to elevate this program and maybe that’s where the evaluation begins when this is all said and done am I maximizing what we’re capable of based

On this being a blue blood blue blood program being that they have one of the elite collectives and that now you’re winning games you’re winning a all of them in fact you want every one of them yeah I’d say you know if you just look at the pieces to the puzzle

You know Florida State in terms of a collective I want to say collectively but that means something different so in terms of an nil collective in a really good place yeah in terms of portal recruiting in a really good place in terms of skill position recruiting been

Very good oh the secondary they they’ve got even without KJ bowon they’ve got a really good class in the secondary and they fli their reputation as a wide receiver destination even with Jeremiah Smith going somewhere else this is a good Hall this year on the heels of

Getting high Keem Williams and a bunch of dudes last I love Elijah Mo by the way so yes I’m very excited about that running backs as well M okay offensive and defensive line baby that’s where this conversation starts and then from there it quickly goes to linebacker and

I’ve been talking about this at nauseum about linebacker I’m a broken record it just serves to bring everybody down I would make a change there I don’t see Improvement there I don’t see depth there I don’t see good recruiting there what else do you need to see yeah I’d

Say linebacker is the biggest problem defensive line mixed results mixed results mixed bag offensive line better than mixed results and then everything else is is pretty well okay yeah because the offensive line if you think about last year you get a kid like Lucas Simmons and Otto and this year

Bringing Daniels and Mony from the west coast and um missing one Jaden Todd and is another one and you do pretty well in the portal there so I don’t think there’s a red alert on the offensive line maybe a yellow alert but they’ve been okay it’s been above it’s been

Above linebacker it’s been above Edge rusher a defensive line the last couple of years I think so if you’re talking about who’s in the Batters box right now when you’re saying hey man it’s time to hit it’s Pastime linebacker well that’s number one who’s on Deck defensive line

Who’s got their feet in The Dugout but they’re in the whole offensive line everything else has been pretty good and that is specific to the high school ranks because in the portal we’re doing a good job across the board yeah but we know that there are certain segment

Groups in the portal where you can get a good player a serviceable player a plus player but you may not get that foundational five-star dominant upside first round draft pick player certain positions like offensive line by the way is one of them offensive line is one of

Those um linebacker might be too you got to find those kids out of high school and get them here and groom them now we’re having a hard time with that right now that seem nson seems to be the exception not the rule you got him but

You know there’s there’s more work to be done certain coach didn’t get him that with somebody else but I agree with you he’s here I figured you would take that point well I’m just gonna point that out gonna point that out so that we got to

Do better there but this is I mean to me when you watch the the growth we’re in lock step with where you think that should be you know you you you going 19th rated class or whatever the hell that was and then now you know it’s

Definitely a top 10 class I don’t know where it’s going to finish right we thought for sure this was going to be a top five class I don’t know that that’s going to be the case now and that will piss people off and I agree you go 13-0

Here and win the conference and you’re Florida State you ought to be able to sign a top five class you ought to be able to do that that’s not too much to ask I I think that’s a fair expectation um really good recruiters do that this is an area of uh

Of weakness that can get stronger and of course this is what I was talking about Mike having to assess right you know you think Mike wants to sit around and rest on his Laurels Mike wants to win and win and win we all all do and the only way

To do that is to bring a huge collection of talent in here now this is a very good class and we’ll see how it fills out with the portal by the way it’s also a unique set of circumstances that I don’t know how to gauge and apply correct the

Thing is you always have to wait on Signing Day for the portal but that’s not an excuse you’re allowed to be pissed off that seemingly you know you can hold the reservation the reservation but then you can’t let the person sit at the table like I I think it’s beyond

Take the reservation and hold the reservation you’re holding a commitment like you’re holding it for months and months yeah this isn’t like the Jeremiah Smith situation is disappointing but he was in Ohio State commit he was already in Ohio State commit it’s just disappointing because you thought you

Had a real chance at him if KJ goes the other way and we’ll check on the latest developments you know these ceremonies can take forever I know it schedule for the top of the hour if it goes the other way that’s different you know that that’s in that’s I don’t think it’s

Quite the level of Travis Hunter but it’s the same category you know where you’re saying well what’s the point of of holding somebody’s commitment for months if on signing day it’s going to flip at the 11th Hour why why is that happening well that’s what you have to

Get to the bottom of you have to figure out why it’s different every time though I will say that it’s not always the same so for example correct so for example if a kid chooses to go to Georgia last second so I’m I’m using KJ Balton here please

Tell me when he announces if you would keep me posted I don’t want to be behind but let’s use KJ Balden for example if KJ Balden chooses to go to Georgia as opposed to Auburn well these are two very different reasons for having lost that recruit if you lose them to Georgia

Admittedly it’s frustrating as all hell but you kind of get it it’s not like they haven’t been churning out NFL defensive Talent left and right for years they have and they win and they are formidable in the world of recruiting especially on the defensive side of the ball Kirby’s a

Defensive guy he’s a former def you know what I’m saying like you’ve got a lot of obstacles there because your program is not at that level just yet it’s just now entering the neighborhood we’re new here oh we’re old if you look at our history but this version of ustion this

Iteration is new we’re new here okay we just bought the nice house down at the end of the culde saac we’re going to introduce ourselves there’s Georgia there’s Ohio State there’s Alabama There’s a few others all right gotcha good to be here I like this neighborhood I’ve always aspired to be

In this neighborhood now a stay in this neighborhood got a lot of things you got to do you know obviously the uh HOA is tough here it’s it’s a tough stingy it’s a pain in the ass but that’s what it is to be here that’s the new

Standard this is what you got to deal with so you get a moment in time where you can say hey good to be in the neighborhood what what are you doing to uplift it what are you doing to stay here what are you doing to ensure that we don’t have to sell this

House and I I think those are the questions Mike has to ask does he have the people in place that ensures we stay here and that we do our due diligence and are able to right up to the very end close the deal with a couple of

Those five star kids this is where it’s very much like the discussion we had about the quarterback room two three weeks ago as it pertains rer and Brock Glen and even in general with the transfer portal in the class and you said the coaches are going to

Tell you how concerned they are with what they do and who they go after yeah and while we debated that perhaps at the time this is before Florida I think but you know if you want to let it play out with what you have see how he plays see

How Tate plays in the spring yeah and you might you might think that Brock could give you a run at that point and if there’s an emergency go get somebody in the spring as a and you knew you had kman Haw coming in so yeah right so

You’ve got he did sign today you got a succession and yeah he signed in the 11 a.m. that’s a really big signing it is that’s aiz that’s a really big signning I feel bad for Aon on the broadcast this morning because he’s been there for all

The bullets I kind of had the stable period when things were going according to play the kids thought supposed to sign did there was one kid that you know at 7 AM was supposed to be Jonathan Daniels out of Pensacola he arrived during my window like I had it kind of

Neat nice and neat and tidy it’s starting to get a little messy again here but the point is that coach norell is going to tell you if he believes that the recruiting aptitude of his staff is a problem by what he does and what changes

He makes or he does not make and last year we made a change at defensive back coach and Patrick ctan is here now may have had a talk show host who mentioned that needed to be done for over a year and the coach may have agreed with you

You know the question is will he agree with you in this particular circumstance I I don’t know we might be in an argument uh I I will I will say this Tom I I you know there are no guarantees when you do this evaluation there are no guarantees when you’re self-

Scouting that the person sees what you think they need to see I mean they may not see it the same way and maybe they’re incapable what happens over the course of time is you follow a program talk about a program analyze a program is you begin to learn things

About said program and about the individuals who run it and that’s true for the coaching staff and that’s true for the administration that’s true from the athletic director on down and there are strengths and weaknesses to every organization you’re trying to minimize those weaknesses as best as possible but

We all know every Organization no matter how well run has strength and weaknesses and your best CEOs are the ones that are constant L trying to improve seeking ways to get better and it’s a hard thing to do because you have to make hard choices and sometimes those choices

Involve something that is Gonna Hurt it’s gonna hurt to have to tell a guy you’re not good enough I need more out of you this isn’t working especially if you love them especially if you like have a personal relationship with the person where you where you say you know with the

Individual where you say I really love so and so and I think his Acumen for the game is where I need it to be but damn it he doesn’t bring me players and I got to have players and I can’t do all of this myself and maybe maybe he needs to

Go somewhere else maybe we need a fresh set of eyes maybe we need new blood but but you don’t always get that you don’t always get the guy who assesses it the way that you’d like him to or sees it and then that would be counted as a

Blind spot for him so what you then do because we’re constantly changing the discussion and having a different one with every season and every game and every recruiting class and the results dictate a different conversation some of those conversations are delightful well I mean if you really think about it

The last few years the last two years the conversations around Florida State and Mike Norvell specifically have been really delightful conversations to have you know when you when you find out you got the right guy that’s a damn good feeling Florida state has the right guy we’re not debating that anymore that was

The debate two years ago we were going into that season two years ago and I’m Mike right this has to be the one well and you know you could look to one of his assistants and Ron Dugan The Narrative has completely shifted and it’s awesome that it has it’s awesome

That it has and we’re root for that and you want you w have to keep starting over it sucks to have to keep starting over and it sets you back so you you know that by and large this has been a oh man I really enjoyed

Our cup of coffee today this was good this was nice we talked about the company in a very positive light the growth seems to be in place the way we want it but as each step takes place and improvements happen you’re still looking for other ways to get better and right

Now you know I think there’s probably a larger discussion to be had about are you as good as you should be in recruiting giving what Florida state is the cache the history the location and then of course the success on the field Tom the success on the field so the

Question is in terms of cups of coffee you want to deviate here because on the YouTube channel we can provide the live stream of KJ signing ceremony and then we can continue to talk on the radio and rejoin them would you prefer that or do you want to do you want to patch

In I mean I I don’t we could continue to talk and rejoin after the people on warchant TV see yeah well we’re due to take a break anyhow so on the radio side of things let’s take that break and go ahead and patch in if you’d like I’m

Sure a lot of the viewers would like to see that I for one don’t care I hate watching that’s why I asked you you know you cups of coffee cups of tea which is your pref preference I don’t really care yeah so he flipped he went to Georgia is

That right it is yeah we don’t need to see it now that’s the end of that all right just popped up on my screen it’s Banner Day yeah well okay but again losing him to Georgia is very different than losing him to Auburn those are two different

Things you lost him to you still don’t have him I get it yeah but the loss to Auburn would have been an awful lot about an overpayment the loss to Georgia is that right now their credibility is greater than ours their program is better than ours period it’s inarguable

I’d be interested though as it pertains to and we’ll we’ll figure things out as the dust settles in terms of an overpay quote unquote actually you don’t have to quote that anymore an overpay because they lost their quarterback so do they have some extra scratch around and and

They’re willing to Georgia you mean yeah yeah they don’t have a history of overpaying for recruits though they don’t not in that space they don’t yeah they don’t have to you it’s like for years we would talk about how coach Kay didn’t have to be a good recruiter Duke

Recruited itself you build to a place where the kids just want to be there yeah and you know I used to sit around people would be like well you know Duke’s I’m Duke doesn’t have to pay anybody anything they the kids want to go there they still do but yes they

Don’t have to go above Market they could go at sticker they go to sticker price but I’m saying Georgia is in that place right now we’re trying to get to that place and we’re not we’re not there yet it’s evident today we’re not there yet Jeff Cameron 933 real talk radio warchant

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This thing they want me to read and tell you all about their great food and salads and all that and the shrimp but I was just there like I visited there I was visiting our great friend Andy Mahoney from Orange Theory Fitness and we sat down and have a lovely early

Evening dinner well and the food was fantastic I think that they would accept that endorsement as long as you say Walk-Ons for the win Walk-Ons for the win all right and by the way they got a new dry rub flavor Louisiana kick I you know as I’m getting

Older I’m going from the sauces to the dry rub I like the dry rub yeah he now I think that’s wisdom yeah it’s uh it is it’s good stuff yeah as you get older you normally wouldn’t say that but it’s funny that you do you you like the dry rub now

Indeed are you you seem depressed I I want to put think I think you’re a little down about this class and I you know this is a conversation we have here you and I and I I’m not depressed KJ Balton go into Georgia stinks I wish it

Hadn’t happened but I kind of get it Georgia’s program’s at a different place than we are right now and you’re G to lose a kid or two to a program that’s slightly ahead of you now it doesn’t have to be that way you don’t have to accept that lying down it doesn’t have

To constantly be something that you just kind of every year were going well but you’re not always going to be able to Stave off off a program of that magnitude and so I kind of get that that happens now you said it right last time last segment I always say it right but

Yeah in this case I’m gonna agree with you more this time than I sometimes do Fair okay and what I would tell you is that you gotta analyze why this is Big Picture stuff Mike why’d that happen is that on you is that on your new secondary coach

Coach ran he had a pretty good haul this year that’s what I’m saying you’re just asking the questions allowed is that on your defensive coordinator right is that who is that on are we poor no you know we’re not poor so who is that on did you

Lose him to money did you lose him to prestige did you lose him because your coach wasn’t good enough to get him these are the questions you ask yeah well the problem that I have is this specific player and the Optics of the player he doesn’t go anywhere else he

Comes here for the final official visit weekend and you know I got to give Michael credit Michael asked him the question he said so you signing with Florida stayed on Wednesday he’s like come on man you already know and then the way that he followed up that answer

Michael went on the airwaves on warchant TV on Sunday and said I don’t buy it I it’s not good enough that’s not a good enough answer even though he gave it definitive he’s like ah you could be like Cam Davis and you could just say no

Way no how you could be like Luke croman Hawk and and clown Georgia on social media and say no man I’m not going there you could so the problem I have is I don’t know why just yet now Mike Norvell can give us some Clues as to why based

Upon his his next actions that he takes if any if any it could be your right that it’s as simple as you have a higher profile program maybe The Prestige of not making the Invitational and being a peg down had something to do with at a 5050 moment if you couldn’t overcome

That talking point that’s stupid either the either the kids’s dumb or you didn’t present it properly because there’s no way that that can be used against you at this point I mean for starters a 12 team playoff next year that kid will never have to deal with anything like that

Yeah but it used to be about how many fun house slides you have in a football building that you’re hardly going to be in for fun anyway so this has never been a realm of The Logical you know for for what kids perceive to be a Difference

Maker I’m just I’m trying to find why at the at the margin because clearly this was at the margin because if you listen to all the experts this morning they’re telling you it’s Auburn if it’s not Florida State it’s Auburn it’s Auburn this Auburn that they thought they were

Gonna throw a huge number at him and then somewhere mid morning late morning it turns into Georgia so clearly this is a decision at the margin and I just well it’ll it’s going to take a day or two for people’s emotions to settle down and to get a

Clearer picture as to why yeah and by the way again I want to reiterate something you can acknowledge that a program is having uh you know let’s say we’re talking about Georgia right now because you know they didn’t lose a game for two and a half years like ridiculous they won

Back-to-back national championships and they’re not one of the best four teams in the country they’re not one of the best five the committee has spoken now what I what again what I would say to that is there’s a difference between me acknowledging what they are and accepting that as a good reason

To lose a kid no no I’m accepting that Georgia is right now the preeminent football program in the country right they they passed Alabama that happens when you win backto back national titles that that’s what happens yeah we all laughed when Nick sain had to hear that from was it

Pollock I forget yeah but on the desk on the desk yeah and you saw the look in his eyes he’s Furious right well that’s where we’re trying to get to and you can’t keep losing to them in these recruiting battles and surp it won’t it won’t happen that you surpass them if

This keeps happening but you can acknowledge a reason without being you know this isn’t like oh I love Georgia more than FSU or hey you know so and so is just so much better than we are uh in recruiting no that’s not that’s not what I’m saying I’m acknowledging that when

You’re going up against a a team that’s won back to back national titles and has lost one game in three effing years they’ve got some cach a it’s going to be tough but you got to find a way now that’s the other part of it the other

Side of the conversation is I know it’s tough that’s a real reason that’s not ass kissing that’s a real reason but it’s not acceptable to keep having it happen got to find out why it’s happening beyond their good if there is something specific you can do that you can do something about

It I mean you can really address it right well yeah I mean you could look at it the other way and say okay we’re not good enough why you know just very simply again it probably will take a couple of days to let emotions subside and look at this clinically if you’re a

Decision maker like we’re not decision makers we’re just pointing at it and telling you what’s happening but when Mike norell needs to decide why it happened it could be as simple as they’re more prestigious as a program in this moment than we are and so the kid

Was in and when in doubt you go with a place that think that you think is going to get you paid at the NFL level and sooner it’s what happened with Smith right well maybe I think that I think they might have gone full Auburn plus

Terms maybe maybe but In fairness he was already an Ohio State commit yeah and all they do is churn out first round wide receivers that’s all they do every year we sit around and we like there’s another one there’s another one and they’re about to do it again with Marvin

Uh Marvin uh yeah Marvin Harrison Jr yeah so that that’s exactly what they’re going to do there’ll be another all World player that gets strapped it in the top five and that is tough to overcome you have to find a way correct the other part is this is where it gets

Tough because this is not a simple as even like MLB Hot Stove there’s no limit to what the Yankees or the Dodgers or the Mets can spend there’s no limit and so you’re gonna see 700 million for Sho Otani it’s not salary capped but at least you know what the numbers are

Right and when shohi otani’s contract comes out and it says $700 million if you’re a fan of like the Rangers how about the Pirates you got no shot at Shani but a team that thought they might have or Boston you know like a random team that think got a shot or the the

Braves were tied to him for a long time if you’re a Braves fan you see 700 million I don’t care how much is deferred I’m like no that’s crazy that’s not how we do things here in Atlanta we’ve got a pretty good system here I’m

Not paying $70 million a year for a guy who’s gonna hit for one season maybe two or three because who knows about how his arm goes your owner would because he’s got more money than he knows what to do with different philosophies that’s right you should pay we’ve got to overpay cuz

We’re the Mets too that’s the other thing we got to overpay the Mets but it’s easier when the numbers are out in the open now the math you got to do two kinds of math how much does it cost now and how much has it cost me in my locker

Room in the future yes there’s a lot there because if Jeremiah commands the figure that maybe some are speculating that he that he might have could he be the most well-paid man in your locker room not having played it down at college football how your locker room G

Handle that it’s not gonna be a good thing so is is the juice worth the squeeze even though he would be a GameChanger immediately for you it’s not to say that you’re poor in terms of collective and resources but that’s a tough decision to make but also and

That’s done in the shadows you just can’t know the other part of this is that fans never remember they’ll go back far enough because on this day this is the emotional day but if you go back with a lot of these kids recruitments so you’ll hear somebody say well you know

What kids flip on us do we ever get anybody to flip for us yes we have in this class there are kids who were committed elsewhere K Bates is a yeah Hawk was going to Ohio State well that was Glenn last year but yeah but I’m saying like he there was another kid

That was those teams were interested and you saved them off yeah you saved off Georg you’re right the other kid but Georgia called on choman Hawk this weekend yes they did when they knew that they were about to lose to Nebraska yeah yeah and they lost to Nebraska by the

Way Georgia lost to Nebraska in Fair now they’re analyze that and say what were you going to do the dad was an All-American at Nebraska I mean that that that killed us was like they’re Nebraska oh and hurts it hurts but you know there you go now again assess that reason and attack

It yeah that’s the thing that’s the next thing you know assess that reason and attack it you’ve got a class that you’re GNA be happy with it’s not perhaps the class that you wanted with every Bell and whistle it is reason to be frustrated you are going to continue to

Look at that staff and say are they good enough you’re G to continue to look at who recruited which player right right and then if you see a themee we got to talk about it when you you know that that’s the whole thing like when you’re assessing your coaching

Staff there are a lot of factors here’s the good side of it you know we’ve done some features that are going to roll out over the next couple of days with Dominic Robinson who is breaking down the the caliber of player at the top of the board here so he’s looking at Cam

Davis and croman Hawk Elijah Moore Charles Lester Kai Bates you know it’s seven or eight kids and in between recordings I don’t think he’d mind me saying this he goes I got to tell you this a lot easier than two years ago because even the best players that we

Brought in two years ago I felt were two or threee projects they’re bringing in athletes and dudes that play this time around it could be Landon Thomas at tight end it could be Kai Bates it could be whoever and and he’s saying man I gotta tell you these kids are the best

Athletes on their team just like it used to be when I was coming to Florida State everybody that showed up in Tallahassee was the best athlete on their high school team yeah unless two of them play together otherwise they were the best and he and so at this point what you are

Seeing is in certain position groups absolute upgrades you know there are different types of four stars there are four stars who could be first year red shirt year impacts and then others who yeah man they got the tools but we’re not going to see them till they’re 21

Years old we’re bringing a lot more of those early impact guys it’s just we’re missing some very important positions in that process well let’s just say it for example so that people have proper perspective on this you mentioned Kai Bates so I love Kai Bates I don’t dive

Into these recruits tapes the way that recruit Nicks do right the way that didn’t all them do but when I was told about Kai Bates I like okay let’s take a look at it so what was the first thing that I did well I always look at

Measurables I want to see what are you even if you’re an Elite Corner Prospect if you’re 5’9 you’re 5’9 I said this about Hunter I said this about other guys where you’re like you know you can’t overcome 59 59 is gonna be a problem for you you can still make

The league you can still be good you can still be all these things but 59 is going to be a problem for you when you face a 6’4 receiver unless you got arms down to your shins or you have a 60in vertical we got problems all right so

The first thing I did was look at Kai bat’s measurables well nice golly 61 and a half almost 6’2 that’s a tall corner all right what kind of athlete are you gotcha you’re up to almost 185 pounds already as a freshman coming in got a little something here all right who’s

Recruiting you this this is what I’m doing all right what do we got well I saw somebody right off the bat that I thought oh wow look at that Alabama is recruiting him LSU is recruiting him the SEC was recruiting him across the board Tennessee was actively recruiting them

As well we won Florida State won that not Alabama not Tennessee not LSU Florida State won that battle these are the things that when you’re frustrated about a kid or even two you got to go back and go all right where’s the progress well in these kinds of

Recruitments you see the progress but this isn’t the same across the board in every segment group you see a lot of this right now in the secondary we’re winning big in the secondary for players we’re not winning big at linebacker for players we’re not winning big right now

On the defensive line for players and we’re certainly not for offensive line we’re kind of middling yeah correct yeah middling and you could argue it either way and it’ be a compelling segment to do about where are we on offensive line recruiting but skill positions generally speaking unless you want to call

Linebacker skill position but skill positions otherwise yeah man we’re we’re where we need to be quarterback running back tight end receiver Corner safety good things Lions of scrimmage and linebackers and you’re doing better in Lions of scrimmage in the portal to cover up the deficiencies of high school obviously that problem everywhere little

Buddy you got Blake but linebacker is a problem pretty much everywhere and you’re doing a pretty good job in the portal across the board otherwise so the lines of scrimmage are concerning in high school defensive more than offensive you’re doing great in the portal in those two places yeah but

Again there’s limitations of what that is is what that means yeah yeah you can’t count on it every year to be like buyers came in from UTEP yeah oh so you got a kid from UTEP well he played like a kid from UT right he doesn’t look like he doesn’t

Look like George’s offensive line doesn’t look like Alabama’s offensive line correct now if bless ever stayed freaking healthy he would have been far above Lamar you know where you got him from yeah he would have been we’ve hit on a couple guys now don’t get me wrong but oh frisky fisky from Western

Michigan was that was a huge hit get huge get I feel like the offensive lineman in terms of the hit rate you’re you’re having much more success if you build that up through the high school ranks and grab five stars and get them to you know that that’s where I’m a

Little frustrated there are you know there’s a couple kids you mentioned Simmons he may turn out to be that kid they like early a lot they like early a lot and ‘s a good player yep you know you you’ve got at some point well I don’t we’ll see we’ve been

Waiting I know this you have to have waves of those bad boys you got to have some big sons of waiting in the wings ready to roll because kids get hurt at that position every year and you better have an elite player behind him the other thing that’s going to tell you

A little bit it doesn’t even have to be about the actions that come in the next couple of days um you know Mike rll’s had a couple of these press conferences and you could sense in the room how he felt about the day he’s frustrated and he speaks today at four o’clock and

We’ll see exactly how he feels about the day will be available on warchant TV after it’s over we get to talk to all the assistant coaches afterwards as well here’s what I think is gonna happen Tom I I I think that mik Rell is going to be

A Pros Pro and he’s going to thank his coaches for hard work and he’s going to point out the highlights of this class he’s gonna look at a player like croman hawk or Charles Lester and he’s going to say um you know great things about what

They’re going to bring to the table for Florida State and that it’s a top 10 class and they feel good about the work they’ve put in and where the programs going he’s not going to sayou know my linebacker coach is useless I mean guys God dog I apologize he’s not

Going to do that he should but he’s not going to do that you can see in his eyes though what how he feels about the moment and right now December’s not been a good month to Mike norell generally speaking he’s frustrated man and I I saw

It yesterday and you know that that made the national rounds his comments for the first time since all this went down how could he not be and that is another factor that it it is interesting to watch him have to go through this you didn’t expect this you didn’t expect to

Not be rewarded for 13-0 after asking them to give everything they had you didn’t expect to have to try to spin this into hey this is another one of life’s lessons and here’s here’s something that’s more material than reputation points for not making the Invitational he said it yesterday after

Practice that one of the hardest parts of this past two weeks three week period of time is that the players needed the coaches and they were on the road it makes it made it very difficult to be there for the players in this time of of unforeseen crisis because you just went

13-0 well think about this but those are the players that are hosting recruits on obies the last couple of weeks and you’re trying to settle these players down they’re entering many are entering the portal or you know tweeting that they’re going to enter the portal and then they never do all these stupid

Things that could have and should have happened in January have to happen while we’re all on the road trying to close the final you know two weekends of this class and in the wake of real Devastation and I think the hard part is that you’re dealing with 18 18 to 22

Year old kids 18 year old kids primarily and and well obviously if you’re talking about within that locker room it’s 18 to 22 year old kids and you’re you’re trying to explain this to them you’re trying to deal with their emotions but what do young men not do very well

Channel their frustrations and emotions in a positive way we’re all dumb asses men mature later than women there have been studies that show that our brains are still developing at 25 we’re a mess it helps explain why we all did really dumb things in college and Contin it

Also explains all kinds of things like death rate in young males and all bet but my overriding point with that is you get dealt this major blow after being told all you got to do is this this this and this and we’ll get there and if you

Do it and we win and we find a way to persevere you’re gonna be rewarded and then you’re not and those kids are not handling that well and that affects the locker room and now coaches are on the road and the head coach has got to figure it all

Out that’s a brutal two weeks it’s a brutal two weeks because there’s not a good answer for getting bent over by the committee there there’s just not a good answer you got screwed politics F you there’s a lesson hey have a good day have a good day yeah talk about a dry

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Yeah that’s a little bit more AJ’s esque back in the day yeah yeah good good stuff um you know it’s I think every year what I what I crack up about on this particular day is you just have extremes everywhere it’s as if people cannot deal

With the gray area they can’t it it has to be all of this or all of that you can 100% be frustrated with not bringing in KJ Balden Express that frustration and say damn it we’re still just a little off from where we need to be for whatever that reason is Mike

Better figure it out because this has to get better as we move forward if we’re going to be an elite program annually you can also say holy moly based on what our recruiting class was a year ago two years ago we are making massive strides even with the loss of a

KJ baldon in this class what you now have is a very good signing class not an elite signing class what you now have is it pertains to the secondary a lot of really good players he would have been the cherry on top it’s no longer an elite class in the

Secondary it’s just a very good class both things can be true it’s it’s okay to be able to say that hey we’re a lot better than we were but we got to get better and we keep losing on a couple of guys and that’s got to change and why is that and I’m

Mad about it okay got it but you don’t you don’t say that and then say well this class sucks because that’s stupid right and not true yeah it’s fair to say that this is an elite group and in terms of portal recruiting like their method

To get kids in the portal that are fits and their eye for talent development um scouting eye it’s really good they bring in kids that might be power five might not and they hit at a really high rate the staff does so in the portal I think

They’re Elite it is you can’t call them Elite in high school recruiting no they’re not they’re not you yet have to sign a top five class they’re good to very good they’re very good actually yeah if you if you sign the number seven class in a country you you’re doing

You’re doing well you’re doing very well you’re not Elite you’re not a top five you’re not top five we want to be top five I get it I get it everybody I want to be too sucks it just does it it just means that look they got work to do it’s

Self-evident I get it but it’s not oh we’re not therefore we’re terrible it’s not that either it is not that clearly agreed and it sounds like you know again given the influx of support for the collective know that people don’t want to hear about the collective

Per se today but the hard part is whether you’re a coach making decisions and you’re not allowed to make a decision with the collective right nobody oh never never the coach never talks to the collective whether you’re coach or you’re Collective the question is use it in last year’s terms let’s say

That KJ Balden or Jeremiah Smith was a part of last year’s recruiting class could you with a straight face make that player earn more money than Jared verse for retention could you say to your locker room and Jeremiah Smith is worth more than Jared verse and bringing him

Back because I think that’s the kind of conversation that a collective has to have these days every single year we’ve got to retain but those 21 year olds who have been here it might be all conference or projected second round from the day that we learned this was

Going to be a thing and you’ve got now a 17 18 yearold who hasn’t played a down in college football is worth more than that dude those those are uncomfortable conversations it’s a it’s an impossible juggling act but if you stay by your standards you are less likely to lose

The locker room to a culture issue that’s another thing you’re guarding against it’s impossible math to do but that’s what they’re all trying to do I generally speaking do not want to overspend for a high school kid that’s never played a down of college football I don’t think that’s a good way moving

Forward to run your operation I don’t think it’s sustainable you might get one good year out of it but then you got real problem you got real problems on your hand so generally speaking if you lose a kid and it’s and you can prove it’s because of money for example and I

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Day walkon Signing Day Live Jeff Cameron show in progress now as we continue to monitor I’m wondering what is on the horizon here uh in regards to who’s left Tom who’s left I should pull that list that um we’re still waiting on in terms of times Well Ricky Knight defensive back

Uh had just signed and that is now official um most of everybody I’d say before we signed on I think there were maybe five signes to go most everybody had kind of made their decisions and and sent in their uh their paperwork like for example on the west coast monit the offensive

Lineman plays well I watched a great video on him so his high school coach said his name enough Mana for short is how is how he goes basketball player converted to football player which I always love because that means they have great feet and he’s mean love it so he’s

Got a ceremony I think in the three o’clock hour but he’s already sent in the letter of intent so it’s already done like he’ll have the the celebration but the paperwork has been filed same thing with Charles Lester who is playing with everybody’s emotions for about five

To 10 minutes this morning yeah but he signed right away so we’re good FL State released the letter they released yeah they’re like yep he’s in don’t you all worry about it interesting I I know the root of the frustration is two things okay for people that are frustrated today you’re

Mad about let’s start with what you’re mad about first the first thing you’re mad about is you really thought probably because you were told in this industry by a lot of people that Smith was going to sign with Florida state that Smith was going to flip to Florida state that you were

Going to get the number one wide receiver in the country that you were going to bring him in and that didn’t happen he went with Ohio State and so even though he was a verbal to Ohio State you had never gotten a verbal from him you didn’t lose him it felt like you

Did it felt like you lost him because there was a lot of smoke out there that he was gonna flip that he was gonna come to Florida State to the point where I think that anybody that follows this very closely and is invested emotionally right probably goes to all the sites

That cover the sport right whether it’s on three National or 24 any of the sites right all of them then they go to the individual places where you’re competing for kids and you read all these reports and I’m I’m thinking that the vast majority of people who were watching that

Recruitment clo closely kind of got a sense from all these different places that Smith might very well be coming to fla state it felt good it felt like it was going to happen and when it did that was the first Domino to fall that was frustrating again even though he was

Never a for State commit balen was the guy that you thought okay well stinks we couldn’t get Smith but we’ll get KJ Balden seems like he’s close to a lock then The Whispers got louder then the concerns grew greater and then right when we were coming on

Tom KJ committed to Georgia and and those two bitter pills to swallow I think has informed the vast majority of the opinion that this class is is lacking fair I think it’s kind of fair to be mad about a couple of kids that you thought you might get especially

When you were led to believe that you were gonna get them you can be mad about that you just can’t have that be the only thing that you talk about in regards to this class because there are other aspects of the class meaning it’s a top 10 class we haven’t had one of

Those in some time haven’t had one of those in a while we weren’t good enough hadn’t gotten to a place where we could do that they’re at that place now they’re at the place now where they can do that you’re just asking the right questions which is okay I’m not content

To be seven or eight or nine I’m not content to be there I want to be one two three four certainly top five what do we have to do to get to that place that’s what you’re asking today and that’s all fine that’s all part of the larger

Conversation yeah I think the the frustration that’s one part of it is you know wow seems like we lose these guys at the last minute an awful lot like Fair yeah it does seem like that uh the other part is this class specifically had a lot of cherries on top a lot of

Skill position players who could really play like they’re better than the skill position players we have now and that’s awesome like that’s the great part but when you’re talking about the substance being the trenches it wasn’t overwhelming that’s why Armando blunt was a huge development that’s why potentially flipping LJ

McCrae who is not signing apparently today at all that’s that’s a maybe worth checking back in on LJ see what he’s up to but you’re just looking and you’re underwhelmed by trenches and linebacker and you’re saying all right we have become Elite at getting the the following positions the shiny positions

The flashy positions how about the the ones that deal the body blows can we get a little bit better at that and that’s fair leading into today then you lose a couple of Cherry’s on top and last week you knew that blunt was not going to

Sign with us because he didn’t come to Tallahassee in the first place yeah you knew that that that ship had already sailed you shouldn’t be digesting that today you should have already had time to do that that’s correct but in general you were supposing that we need

To get better on the substance part of it and we’re good on the flashy stuff now we’re not El lead at the flashy stuff we’re very good at it so you’re coming down to Peg on that part and then you still are worried about the the

Stuff in the middle he’s got to assess his staff and find out who it is that he needs to move on from if he wants to be an elite destination for the highest level of recruiting success okay Florida state is right now really really good they kickass in the portal they are not

Elite in high school recruiting if he would like that to change he’s got to assess why it is they are not there’s one more detail about today you’re asking about what’s upcoming Cam Davis had his signing ceremony in the one o’clock hour the LOI has not appeared in

Terms of Florida State you know confirming it because once they go social once they go on Twitter and they announced the kid that’s when it’s official anyway Michael Langston was just told that he he heard from Cam that he signed so it had been an hour you

Know people were getting nervous in case you were there’s no need to be that kid was Rock Solid but uh you get your star running back well and he is and he’s a stud and I love that kid and I’m really excited about his commitment that’s a

Kid to be excited about when you’re watching him run over people next year perhaps right you you’ll remember this day and he could spin it I mean he had to play quarterback in high school so that’s why he’s got the presence he’s got the Charisma about him the leadership thing you know you’re

Wondering man that usually running backs just want to hit somebody like they have that attitude if they’re like him a bruising back they just want to run over somebody he’s like I want to be a leader oh okay this is a player that it’s a Cornerstone type player and it’s because

He had he had to he was forced to throw the ball around a little bit in high school so um again I would say that all you can do now is to find the areas in which you’re lacking so you you say whether it’s the coach or whether it’s something you’re

Not doing right you know is it systemic to your operation what’s the problem but also I mean pragmatically like right now all right so you didn’t get KJ Bal in you weren’t able to to slip uh to to uh switch Jeremiah Smith from Ohio state to Florida State you couldn’t get him to

Flip all right got it what does that mean for you now as it applies to the portal now were you counting that like you’re going to start KJ Balden next year I don’t know maybe he might be that kind of an impactful player you might have been thinking that probably

Rotational at very least right and and then if Smith had committed to you if you’d gotten him to flip from Ohio State he does seem like a plug-and-play receiver so you probably were looking at that all right so let let’s start looking where you can fill some of these

Gaps it may not be with the caliber player it probably won’t be with the calibro player that those two individuals will be in all likelihood but you you still have some needs that you got to figure it out and that’s that’s where you go from here you’re

Saying to yourself all right what do we have to do now you and I talked about the first first out I’m going to continue to talk about it I’m going to hammer it home as often as I can they do not do a good job recruiting linebackers they are struggling with

This you better find some readymade linebackers in the portal and now because if you’re gonna have to start freshman or red shirt freshman at linebacker you are in trouble now I don’t care that Lundy left he wasn’t very good but he would have been useful for third and short second and short

Obvious running Downs if he didn’t pick the wrong Gap to run to which he frequently but that said you lose a heavy hitter in that regard but you don’t have anybody right now that you look at at that Core group and say oh they’re outstanding we

Are good here no we’re not good here we’re not good here we think Blake’s gonna be good we’ll see but we don’t we don’t have anybody there’s nobody you’re not sting there like oh Omar Graham’s great no he’s not so you don’t have anybody you better go get somebody that

Like last year when we got Keon Coleman I remember being so pumped because he was readymade he had over 700 yards receiving in Michigan State they didn’t even have a quarterback and he put put up numbers against good teams so you knew okay he is plug play G to kick ass

And did until he got hurt you know he was I thought the last few games he was an average player because he couldn’t run yeah everybody Hur yeah but but man he was electrifying through those first six seven games and he basically won US the LSU game along with our defense in

The second half you know that that was that’s what you had we gotta work on those cold tubs get them a little colder so now who’s that guy that you’re going to that’s like a Keon Coleman esque player not at receiver I’m saying at linebacker oh look at this we just

Grabbed this disgruntled second Team all SEC linebacker from Georgia put him in let’s go like that’s the kind of thing I need to see otherwise I am concerned a little bit about that unit in particular and you know I’m concerned about the coach of that unit have been from Jump

Street the first I heard of it and so I just think that you know we’ll see we’ll see what they do now the portal is interesting to me because we have found a way to overcome some of these weaknesses in high school recruiting through through the portal now there are

Some you know again the levels of clay that you’re molding are not always the same per position group you can find a Germaine Johnson you can find a Kier Thomas you can find a Jared verse clearly you can somehow if fla state has found a way I

Don’t think you want to always rely on it but you have found a way to bring in defensive ends you just you haven’t found a way to bring in a five-star Elite offensive lineman and you know you’re going to need to do that you haven’t done it with linebacker either

Yeah is where it’s like professional sports uh maybe a salary cap sport where you say you’ve got three types of things that you can spend your resources on draft picks uh contract extensions fre the free agency market yeah but the dollars go to each place and it’s the

Same money it’s the same currency and my point would be if you lost out on three players today that you had set aside resources for Jeremiah for a flip KJ for a commitment Armando blunt the last week I mean he classified committed here so clearly we were invested in Armondo

Being a part correct of Florida State and you had a couple unexpected dues hit the portal like Rodney Hill for example at running back I’m sure we were taking care of Rodney that’d be my assumption yeah you should have resources to go hit that portal now or retain what you do

Have a little bit better there there should be more resources that’s always the plus side of this when it happens you do have to point that out because it’s a reality it’s a reality yes you go get more aggressive on those fronts in the retention front with maybe dudes who

Like to go tweet every 10 minutes that they’re whatever and then the guys who hit the portal that maybe you thought ah luxury item don’t necessarily have to have them but now if you’ve got the budget you’ve got the room under the budget all right go get them you’re

Gonna go get one of the quarterbacks so we think that’s either going to be DJ or Cam that will help remedy some of this what ails you right you’ll have a little bit of Sav moment there where you’re like okay okay that feels good we’re good we got a quarterback now he played

A lot of football they’ve both played a ton of football they’ve both been successful okay we got that and then you’re going to have to really I think lock in on are we good to go with Payton and farmer what’s Daryl Jackson gonna do I know he’s playing in the bowl game

What’s he gonna do hey I didn’t mean to uh Jinx that whole situation when I when you said well what reason do you have to worry about farmer and I said past behavior and then there was a dust up that happened that night yeah know I

Laughed about it I mean I I think we can just get to a place where that’s going to be an annual occurrence so long as he is here and this is why there’s so much animosity towards him I mean there’s a lot of push back to him and you know

What that’s as it should be man get a grip we’re not renegotiating every year stop it it’s ridiculous good luck yeah I just wonder how many how many players we have that have left our situation and said oh God that’s what the world thinks

Of me well you know in terms of in terms of the bottom dollar well why don’t we just do this you already can follow some of these kids and see what’s out there right yeah some of these kids have an offer for example a player has an offer from Indiana and

Liberty my understanding it is for far less than what they were making here good luck with that have fun at Indiana with Coach sigs good luck to you uh at Liberty buddy is that his name yeah sigs is that because of Coach speak Signet sigs yeah he’s garbage yeah but but

Anyhow yeah so that’s like good luck good luck with that yeah they’re but the thing that sucks is when you watch a kid have to learn a lesson somewhere else and he could be playing for you and making more money than what he had asked it’s ridiculous but you’re like well

That’s what you got to do what are you g to do and and and some players let them hold your program hostage of course not and some players obviously you know how this works in the in the real world in the Working World it’s this way at at a

Business as well as a football team you’ll put up with more if that kid’s good if he’s really good you’ll put up with a lot of nonsense look at NFL teams putting up with receivers on the regular who do amazingly dumb things and say crazy dumb things all the time but they

Also have thousand yard seasons and they’re really good and so we’re GNA have to figure out how to deal with it well some of these guys it’s hilarious to watch them attempt to Strongarm the program through social media and you’re like well my man you’re you’re not war Dunn you’re

Not Greg Jones you’re not cam Acres you’re you’re certainly not Dalvin cook you’re a guy who’s got some promise buddy have fun at Indiana or Liberty you’re just not going to be held hostage and when we lose players like that people think ah we’re we’re cheap N

I disagree with that I don’t think that’s true you’re not going to let people hold your a I think it’s hard when you’re making a decision on a high school recruit it is easy for fans all fans to say well wait a minute I want this player he’s a fivestar player we

All want him and by the way if I’m hearing Auburn’s willing to pay him why can’t we Auburn is more desperate they haven’t achieved anything thing in a long while they’re they’ve got some Lunatic Fringe elements to them right now they’re tired of sucking they’re tired of losing by 31 to New Mexico

State right and this is where you know the analogy does not hold between professional sports and college sports because if you’re G to go grab a guy let’s say he’s an international Prospect in baseball or a draft pick in football and you sign them to a rookie deal

They’re locked in for a long team control is the term in baseball they use but you have Team control of a player for a long time but let’s just say the kid is playing games with you into the 11th Hour beyond the 11th hour and saying come on now best and final what

You got well if you locked him in at a number he could come back to you in six months or after six games his freshman year and say I want more and what are you to do in that moment because he’s not locked in under team control or Collective control or program control

Like it is in professional sports if you could tell me that Jeremiah Smith I could get him now for a million dollars and that’s what he gets and it’s three years until he go you might do that you might do that hell yes I would do that well

Probably you probably I would take the risk for that film absolutely I would take the risk for that film but I know but you would know you had him for three years it would be worth it and yeah yes but that’s not the the realm that anybody’s living in now it’s that kid

Could be back in the portal double dipping in two years or one year we just got Marvin Jones Jr right we just got Marvin Jones Jr exactly add this to the class we just got Marvin Jones Jr that dude was wanted by every team in the country Alabama Ohio State Georgia one

Out they got him guess where he is Florida State so you know today it’s aggravating when a Balden goes to Georgia or a Smith stays with Ohio State hang in there maybe watching that kid play here in two years if it gets to that point where high school players if it was a

Different and they could do a a three-year guarantee a three-year committable offer both in terms of scholarship and nil and you tie those two things together at that point I would spend so much more money on high school kids because it’s it’s a cheaper commodity when you break it out over

Three guaranteed years but the big part of what you just said is if it were a different and that’s not the world we live in right it’s not at all you don’t think amardo blunt can ask for more money next offseason from Miami of course of course this is what we’re

Getting I mean I go back on this all the time and have this conversation all the time on the air about wait a minute now hold on you want to throw $2 million at a star wide receiver coming out of high school you do well when you you lose four players

In that locker room who decide to go elsewhere because they’re not making a fraction of that they’re not making a third of that a fourth of that a fifth of that a sixth of that and you lose those players don’t come on here bitching you made that decision that’s

Why you lost those four guys because you just Eed them and they said Peace this is the interactive play that we’re dealing with here it’s not all of this or all of that it is always the gray area and if it sounds exhausting imagine being the head coach

Well this is why and I we if we’re talking big picture college football I’ve said before if I’m a coach and I’m well thought of by an NFL franchise peace man I’m not doing this I’m not doing this I gotta re re-recruit my roster every day every day this guy

Comes in bitching about how he didn’t get 17 more snaps that he wanted in this last game and a 35-point win I got to deal with this I got to bring him in and tell him I’m sorry about that and really listen it’s okay we really like your

Trajectory I got to do this every day linebacker Matt Mal I’m glad you bought a SEO Mr marar but that’s not my problem I mean the number was the number that was your budgeting you chose the Seido yeah you bought a $90,000 truck that was stupid along with that dumbass necklace

You’re wearing that was stupid you want more money because you have to pay that off I can’t help you they won’t give you dollar for dooll back on the necklace you don’t say no imagine that resale value on the truck is not what you thought it was

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Month when you write that check you’re going to be pissed that you bought that thing that’s now sitting alongside by the side of your house just collecting dust with a cover you’re going to be so mad no you’re crazy it’s going to be awesome six months later I need to sell the SEO

Thing I never use it I know man I know that’s and that’s the conversation you have with these kids every day you know I hear oh I’m sure you do oh I hear that my friend that I played with in high school is getting 25,000

More more than me at Missouri you do do you well you know what actually the person they need to hire this is a total inside joke was an old president of one of our uh radio stops yeah cuz he would just do the Kermit and

The bail it was the best it actually was a really shrewd uh negotiation and conversation point it’s just not profitable it sucked you just sit there what could you do you were just like all right anybody want lunch yeah I’m gonna have better luck with the wall so

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Celebration doesn’t feel much like a celebration to him if you dive in it’s a day it’s a day yeah no I I can there are aspects of it that I would call a celebration um obviously losing KJ Balden already having lost Armando blunt it hurts you hurts you and you’re

A little frustrated by it but you’ll ask questions and you can you can ask questions about why that’s happening you can also acknowledge who you did get and where that class is going to be I would would point to uh a ass signing of a top 300 quarterback in Luke

Chomok who is a you know you’re talking about this probably procuring a top 10 class gotta get better gotta figure out why it happened you’re not wallowing uh it today you know for example the way that um Florida would be and a few other schools I mean I think there’s some

Folks at USC kind of what’s going on there I get it yeah I would think Florida uh today would be a uh special kind of tough situation now I don’t know what what became of the quarterback situation in Florida with lagway I think they kept him they kept him I believe

Yeah but LJ LJ you know postponing his decision at least that as we signed on today that was the collective wisdom and then Florida being up there I think as high as number two in the country just a month or two ago and they’re losing guys left and right at different programs I

Know Texas poached a high caliber safety well they lost the they lost the Waller kid they lost the Williams kid um they lost the Matt kid they they lost a ton of kids I’m not trying to dabble in too much shod in Frey today because today

Wasn’t the home run it might have been a solid single I don’t even know that’s an extra base hit but uh but it’s a stinging single good contact just needed that to get in the alley Florida at best is a blooper maybe on with an E4 maybe a

Little Chuck knoblock fisted oh yeah that’s it play byplay guy dream term for a Texas leager it’s so fun to be able to say that because that’s a real descriptor yeah that’s right and it also seems appropriate it’s also a baseball term Yeah I think we’re gonna bring Michael Langston in here in just a second do we have him I’ll ask him I mean Michael’s not afraid to have a conversation Michael’s a grown ass man he’ll talk about it what’s up Michael hey man how’s it going

I’m all right I don’t know that our fan base is so no they’re not let me get straight to the skinny why are they failing on some of these Elite guys what’s happening there in your estimation what happened with Balden I know as late last night Michael

Industry folks really felt like I know you did and a lot of others did I mean we felt like smth was going to happen it did not then you get word that Florida State really wasn’t even in the running light you got Miami and Ohio State if

You believe what was in that bag right that ain’t good what’s happening there um not finishing you know not finishing the product of of what you’re doing um overall uh obviously each one has a specific like tail to it you know just on certain guys like KJ I don’t think

Yeah obviously there’s some nil stuff involved but it’s also just not finishing of of maybe executing the plan that you wanted and and I don’t think the plan’s going right and I agree with you that earlier a few minutes ago you said you have to address what what’s

Going wrong and and and especially in defense attack with recruiting you know uh it’s not working you know so I think you have to figure out some solutions I don’t think there’s like a pinpoint thing I can say what happened with every one of them I think with I think with

The Armando blunt one that’s more where FSU did everything they were supposed to do they made sure he was coveted from an nl’s perspective uh he knows what the product is he they sold him on the culture he was there and then you know was a little boom and boosta you know

For Miami for people pressuring him to stay home and then and obviously a nice little bonus for nil I think with KJ it was more um you have to plan for everything happen it’s like when he took a visit to Syracuse everyone’s like oh that’s not a

Big deal but the former DB coach from from uh Georgia was there he’s the head coach now you think he’s not promoting Georgia so you have to have these plans in order where I think you should have found a way to just make sure that things are solely focused on FSU and I

Think that was a big moment it sounded Innocent but those little things are little details that you have to know um so I think uh those are just a few pieces of of kind of what happened today Michael is this a good recruiting class oh it’s good it’s good it’s a solid

Recruiting class it’s it’s just a lot of this what happened today is going to take away the steam just because you’re losing you know two five stars losing two premier guys that especially one in KJ that’s an impact guy so it’s going to certainly affect but same time um you

Know there’s still a few more left uh the fourstar defense Manan Murray Williams is one that uh they could possibly pull in and then um and that would kind of ease the pain a little bit with blunt but then uh and then also denos white later today I feel good that

You know it’s going to be FSU but um overall you know you’re going to have to do what you did last year and nail it in the portal you know nail these spots that you missed on uh that you weren’t counting on something happening and uh like I said last

Night things felt good about KJ and then um you know we learned today it he says like well he’s kind of known for three weeks but recruits say that all the time you know once they make the decision they’re kind of like yeah I was I was

But realistically it was it was a your last like surge type of thing you know uh that we had heard last night so it’s a good class and it’s trending in the right direction for this group he’s just got meaning he meaning Michael uh Mike Norvell excuse me Michael has to he he’s

Got to assess are there some is there some dead weight in this coaching stuff right like we got to be honest about how these conversations happen are there are there some guys that are damn dead weight in the recruiting world right and that’s what you have to look at it’s

Like the development’s great but that’s great when they get there you know portal when they get there great they’re you develop them and all that stuff but at the same time you need that death pizs uh from high school and you can’t uh it’s not acceptable to not get a top

100 uh defensive attack will recruit uh I think it’s asking a lot to get one or a top 200 you know nearly every year so yeah that’s some stuff they’re going to have to figure out you know you can’t just keep rolling and doing the same thing it’s like there’s obviously some

Issue there is now three years so you got to you got to address that uh same thing with linebacker position uh you got a few guys I like but that’s like you have to there has to be if you’re gonna talk about the to me it’s like we

Talk about the climb and stuff you’re going to go climb well it it’s also addresses like what parts are not as strong that you have to address as a coaching staff and Mike does a great job with that he knows he he he addresses things where I felt like at one time

When they had Woodson there Woodson’s a great guy and all but they needed a boom and they certainly got that I think with Patrick but there needs to be Parts where you address you know whether it’s your staff or things you’re doing uh you have to address

It it’s interesting I we we watch and we watch the development of the program Michael and we see and you really you think about behind the scenes which you’ve watched remember when I was talking to you and I’m not going to flip this into a feel-good moment but I am G

To per perspective purposes have this larger conversation when I was talking to you two years ago I think and I’m paraphrasing my own question but I was asking you about why it is we can’t get anybody who’s worth a damn visit remember when they were bringing

Kids in for camps and you couldn’t get anybody who was any good at all you’d get like a kid here or there that was it that’s not happening anymore so they’ve clearly taken huge steps forward in that regard if you look at the recruiting rankings Forida state has taken a

Massive Leap Forward from two years ago from last year to where we are now but there’s more growth that has to be done and what I’ll be intrigued by is does this does the failure of a couple of of guys not signing make the difference for Mike

Norell in deciding whether or not he has to make some changes in this off season I I’ll be very curious to see how soon that could happen I am too um because it’s like when it gets to be a pattern uh Mike does not let last long we’ve

Seen that with certain things that you know his staff and his team and he just doesn’t allow it so I’m interested to see that too um obviously and too uh you know I talked about this early in the show with both Tom and Aon that you know

Them being in the league they’re in kills them like kills them like just I hear that consistently you think that’s the number one thing they’re up against is the sorry ass ACC I think it’s a big part um I also think the snub really hurt them recruiting wise uh because it

It told people like it left doubt you know anytime you and that’s recruiting anytime there’s left doubt in there you know the coaches have to do more work to clean it up and say well look we’re going to be there and and whatever whatever pitch they have but I think the

Main problem is that is the ACC if you get out of that league and you’re in a good League say the Big 10 or somewhere like that you don’t have to worry about that stuff that stuff doesn’t happen you don’t have you you’re protected you’re right now you’re not protected you’re basically

FSU your name your program your prestige we know they have value ESPN can’t talk about them for five seconds what they’re doing something I mean there everyone wants to talk about FSU but they don’t have protection in my opinion of a league that protects them so I think

We’re talking about factors plural it’s not you’re not saying it’s just the ACC because obviously Miami’s done a good job recruiting and they have a and they have a stone cold killer who’s a terrible in-game coach and a really good recruiter so we’re talking about balancing these things right Mike’s an

Awesome in-game coach right now he’s not a stone cold killer in recruiting but you got to find some people if you if if you want to get over the hump and sign these top five classes you’re gonna have to get somebody who is that that’s the

Reputation and is there a guy that they would look at I mean we I can’t ask you to predict the future but there are some guys out there some people will tell you Kevin steel and people like that and I roll my eyes but like do you think we’ll

See that do you think Mike will make a move I think Mike will will address it like I don’t know what type of move it will be but I I think he will address it because that’s what he’s done throughout his whole career at FSU when there’s a

Problem he addresses it and it’s clearly a problem it’s clearly something that they uh certainly have to do something about I I think it’s it’s quite possible um I I guarantee no because I have to see you know have to hear what what’s going on behind the scenes but this is

Obviously a problem that you don’t grow unless you if you unless you adjust to what’s going on and I think they have to adjust what’s going on so I I definitely think it’s something that will be looked at and addressed uh overall I think I think it

Almost has to be if you if you don’t because you’ll you’ll keep going through the same stuff uh but my number one thing for FSU that would benefit them the most is getting out of this league it just kills them like it just it really sets up everything with these other

Factors are there kids final thing Michael are there kids that Florida State’s on that were sort of fallback measures that they think they had a chance I know you mentioned a couple of names out there a moment ago when we first hopped on when you first hopped on

But you know there’s always a second plan right you’ve always got a you know a way to Pivot if something doesn’t go the way you want are you hearing that there’s you know maybe fireworks to come that would be good news for Florida State either today or in the portal I

Think mostly in the portal but yes there’s been you fireworks that I’ve heard that you know they feel good about um and and like I said when you get poor people don’t understand this when you get portal catch you don’t have to worry about all that drama and stuff like it’s

It’s it’s focused directly on football which is perfect for FSU that’s why they do so well in the portal because they can use development FSU is really good at development if you go past and you look everything on their team defensive line phenomenal linebackers very improved the productivity is there the

Development is there uh but you know so I do expect fireworks in the portal uh you know for filling these holes but you have to fix this high school stuff like you you can’t have guys flipping top commits every year um you know this is like the third year I think they’ve had

Somebody a top guy you know flip for whatever reason like you have to curve that and stop it um and figure out what’s what’s causing this and um I guess fix the problem what if what that means coaching changed then so be it you

Got to do what you got to do but uh at the end of the day it comes down to addressing what the issues are but do I expect a solid group of of in the port absolutely I do Michael I always appreciate it I know how hard you work

On this day and all the days leading up to it and you still got more work to do we’ll be tuning in of course and checking on out on warchant.com be good brother talk to you real soon you got it Bud take care always appreciate the

Cander from Michael he knows I ask him you know what’s the story here he’s gonna answer it I appreciate that I those are tough questions Mike’s got to ask I mean they’re good the program’s good they’re 13-0 they just had an awesome season you can say I’m mad about

This I’m frustrated about this they’ve won 19 straight games they’re good they’re really good they are now in another they are at another level and with that come very lofty expectations and and that’s fine too nothing is nothing Everything is Everything if you’re in the playoff field right now

This hurts but it’s not quite the same level of frustration across the board from the fan base there’s still pain from that that lingers in this discussion it informs this discussion and perhaps it led to some things like for me I don’t know about the damage

Control for the pitch if you’re not good enough to make the playoff out of the ACC like I hear you and that’s probably legitimate to a degree from Michael but I think also the problem is when you have a locker room that is reeling from that reality and they are devastated as

They should be because they were screwed yeah but that is what a kid who’s on an official visit two weekends ago and last weekend comes in to feel that aura man that is ult especially they have official hosts like what’s their host going to tell them man this thing’s

Pointless I I can’t believe this we would hope they wouldn’t say that but yes in a moment of honesty like you would like we often say that the best the coaches we the coaches often say the best recruiters are the current players they have on campus yeah this ain’t an

Ideal time to come to Florida State for an OV with the feelings and the emotions that are legitimate that those players are feeling from what the college football playoff committee did when you put together the conversation around recruiting you have to talk about all of the aspects all the facets of what we’re

Discussing so for example I get it fora State fans rightfully would look South and say well what is Miami doing to get players their team sucks every year they have for 20 years useless program haven’t accomplished a thing in Forever never even won the ACC there that is a

Sorry ass program with a fake indoor practice facility and no Stadium how are you getting people to go there well the number one thing that Mario Chris Ball does recruit he is an awesome recruiter and he has to overcome all of the things that I just laid be War State beat them

Again just as they did the year before and we know that Miami’s not the program fora state is they’re desperately trying to get there they have failed miserably they continue to fail but they do have a good moment every year at this time and they’ll have it so long as he’s there

They’ll be able to bring good players in because he’s a really good recruiter now he’ll make colossally stupid decisions game in and game out that will cost them the game with those great players and they’ll grow frustrated with that but in the interim you do watch it you go oh

Man that kind of sucks well the other part is their ni culture is probably not sustainable whether it’s Ruiz or not I doubt they’re sticking to a plan but what I’m saying is I I doubt they’re sticking to a plan of this is the value

And so this is what we’re willing to go to and if you got an issue with that you can walk I think they have to fake it they have to say yes a lot more than they want to say yes in this moment because they’re desperate to try and

Fake it until they make it until there is legitimacy and they can stabilize the process but it’s a more risky pitch like Mario’s a good recruiter independent of the nil that’s true independent of nil but then in the nil game when you’re a bad program you’ve got to overspend yeah

And when you overspend you are begging for culture issues you’re begging for culture issues so you got to win in order to not let those culture issues rise to the surface so they’re walking a tight RPP they’re forced to but Mario is proof that recruiting still matters in

The era of the the skill of recruiting whatever that is it matters that’s why I brought up earlier like okay look there are guys out there who have always been good recruiters the reputation as coaches may not be good but they’re really good at recruiters so what you do

When you put together your staff is you find an ex’s those guy that you love who’s maybe had another level maybe he’s pred naturally great you got a guy who’s an unreal recruiter he’s the Crim Crim a recruit in at his segment group or his position in general and then you you add

That to the staff for every one of those kinds of guys if they’re not great with the X’s and O’s you’ve got to fill a spot with an x o guy then you got to fill a spot with a guy that does something else you need as a head coach

As a CEO right I need this guy who you know what this guy does this very well organizer I don’t do this very well but I’m gonna bring this guy in because he does that’s and that’s the balance you’re seeking to create to have a perfect circumstance perfect situation

It’s kind of rare but the more you win the more you’re in a position to do it obviously the more you win the better the reputation gets the more money you make the more money that can be passed around to a staff the better balance you

Create and the more the people want to be a part of your staff who are really good at what they do yeah and he’s got tough decisions coming up je G show will come back wrap it up momentarily moment game day at Walk-Ons is just different and it starts to the

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That if they go into bumpers the food is always good I mean everything on the menu everything at gordos is delicious I always of course get the what the bungalo chunglo is I call it the pan Chong Jeff is that the what is the pork

The B Chong Jeff okay the B CH it’s delicious all these things all the items everything you do a master cook but sir I would ask you what is a skill that you possess that you’re particularly proud of that nobody would know and that uh that you could

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93.3 we’re live tomorrow we will be on the air Tom we were GNA do I’ll just do our business out here in the open for everybody oh boy we were gonna do um something tonight I think recording wise we’re not we’re not doing anything

Tonight okay a I’m sick as a dog B it’s my son’s football uh banquet oh was banquet all right which I forgot about that’s like Jamari Howard’s signing ceremony today they had a banquet beforehand on the table like he went live like all right we got some awards

To hand out and he pivots and he flips there must have been 40 trophies like there were about 24 trophies and then another 15 plaques I was like oh man because we’re trying to time it out for the broadcast we’re like he’s never gonna Never Gonna never mind we’re

Leaving this anyway good luck at the banquet should be a good time uh safe travels for you you got a long drive uh we’re not doing some big thing because you and I are gonna be working together every day even though you’re moving so I can address this at a different time but

Uh that’s what we’ll do that is true that’s the way to do it right yeah I think that’s the way to do it moving that is true you are moving yeah yeah and uh out in the open now yeah you’re moving uh but that’s fine you’ll be here

Every day and we’ll do the show together every day and we can give whatever details you want to give moving forward so that’s how we’ll do that you’re gonna be back here all the time too so I’m not as concerned about that so I’m going to see you otherwise I’d be blubbering

Right now so we’re going to be fine it’s all going to be good fora Mana Texas thanks to the whole team for a great full day show it made working the week before Christmas bearable go NOS thank you fora Texas are there others that I just absolutely glossed over that you

There are quite a few and as Matthew pulls those up we should thank everybody who was involved in the broadcast today like Aon great job Michael Ben director Ben Matthew you I was awesome today walk on this has been really good thank goodness for Walk-Ons uh Ian RS this program was in

The trash 13 and0 and we have people losing their minds over Stars well they do every year Ian you you see this every year uh hopefully Florida state does make some changes to this staff I think they’re gonna have to if they want to cash in on top five classes but there’s

No doubt it is an upwardly mobile situation for Florida State uh Jared writes thanks for the level approach jents especially that we can be critical and ask questions while being thrilled with the aspect with aspects of our class biggest concern to me is our Rivals closing the Gap at positions of

Need linebacker defensive line defensive tackle sure well I I the only area in which I’m not all that rational is I continue to be frustrated by our situation at linebacker this is off the beaten path with 30 seconds to go but just I love you city of Tallahasse this is home

That’s all there you go yeah I figured we wanted to just keep it moving just love this city that’s yeah well you’re gonna be here next month I will probably yeah oh you have to be I already deemed it so so you’ll be here all right thank you for paying for

It good work brother good work uh to you uh as well director be well everybody talk to you soon peace