A calculated risk on the recruiting trail(Episode 88)
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
FSU is taking a calculated risk in waiting until late in the recruiting process to host official visitors. The Seminoles are not expected to host official visitors this weekend, and will instead load up on OVs on the weekend of Jan. 25. This strategy has worked for Willie Taggart before...will it pay off as FSU looks to close out its 2019 class?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the Noles 24-7 podcast. This is Brenda Sonone. |
| 0:03.6 | Joining me today, Chris, did you miss me? |
| 0:06.0 | Did you miss us? Did you miss this? |
| 0:08.1 | Of course I did. Come on, don't be foolish. |
| 0:10.8 | I don't know if you guys, well, I do know you guys can't see, but he's rolling his eyes. I don't know if you guys, well I do know you guys can't see but he's rolling his eyes. I didn't know my eyes. Emotionally you rolled your eyes. That might be true. So anyways guys, welcome to the podcast. Please as a reminder, five-star reviews I almost had four-star reviews I'm struggling today dealing with the cold but five-star reviews on iTunes if you enjoy the show if not just don't give us negative reviews it hurts my feelings but we got a good deal of recruiting stuff to go over today |
| 0:34.4 | and the last few episodes have been me and Josh or Josh and I and so today we're |
| 0:38.5 | going to have Chris kind of wax poetic here and let him talk about his vision of the program and |
| 0:44.0 | and more importantly where things are going right now with recruiting. |
| 0:47.0 | So I'll kick it off to you Chris right now recruiting. |
| 0:50.0 | Not a whole lot going on this upcoming weekend. It looks like they're saving all their bullets for the January 25th date. |
| 0:57.0 | That strategy, something that the staff has seemingly done previously and has had success with. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, this is essentially the fourth time. |
| 1:04.7 | We've seen them build up a individual weekend |
| 1:07.8 | during a period of a lot of visits. |
| 1:10.0 | The first time, obviously, was early signing period before the first early signing period for them when would be in that group came in, |
| 1:17.0 | had a lot of success with that. |
| 1:18.5 | Also got a lot of really high-end kids on that. |
| 1:21.2 | Then Saturday Night Live, you know, kids are visiting everywhere all summer |
| 1:24.2 | at this you kind of saw it piled everything to the end of July and they pulled it off. |
| 1:27.6 | Then we saw it again this past December last month before this early signing |
| 1:32.1 | period and they went 14 for 14. |
| 1:34.6 | Now we're seeing it again, January 25th. |
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