BREAKING: Desir twins to return to FSU football for 2026 season
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the long, Noel National nightmare comes to an end, everybody. |
| 0:04.3 | Breaking news on WarChant TV on a Thursday night as Florida State and the Desir twins have reached a new agreement, |
| 0:11.6 | the DeSiers will take their names out of the transfer portal and return to Florida State to play in the 2026 season. |
| 0:18.2 | Irish Ophel Managing Editor of Warchand.com joins me here on Warchand TV to discuss |
| 0:23.2 | what was in a novel time in college football the wildest post-house settlement negotiation |
| 0:29.2 | in the brief post-house settlement era of Florida State football. Ira, what an annoying week |
| 0:35.0 | and a half this has been, but it comes down with good news for Florida State in the end. |
| 0:39.5 | What's funny is, and you know, did you get people peek behind the curtain? |
| 0:43.2 | You know, probably, I don't know, a half hour or so before it finally happened that they basically confirmed the twins and their agent confirmed that they were not going to, |
| 0:51.8 | that they were going to come out of the portal and return to Florida State. |
| 0:54.4 | You and I were discussing whether or not to post an update saying that that was |
| 0:58.8 | where it was leaning because how many times over the last two weeks have we reported |
| 1:03.8 | one way and then it goes the other way like 10 minutes later. |
| 1:07.6 | And so it's just what a crazy ride. |
| 1:13.7 | You know, certainly I think a lot of FSU fans, |
| 1:19.3 | by the time the twins went in the portal officially on Wednesday, I think a lot of FSU fans at that point were like, you know what, fine, let's find somebody else. But I think at the end of the |
| 1:24.5 | day, man, it's good news for Florida State. These are two guys that are going to be big parts of your defensive line. Mandrell just here had a huge freshman season with six and a half sacks, led your team in sacks. So it ends in a good place, even though I'm sure a lot of FSU fans wouldn't want to know how the sausage was made. I think they learned more than they wanted to. |
| 1:44.3 | If they were on the tribal council, they got a little bit more of a blow by blow than is typical. But when Ira, we get into this era, it's not the NIL era, and RevShare deals do have so many more dimensions to them. I mean, you're just going to learn these things about the kind of numbers that are being floated around. You had it. I had it |
| 2:00.9 | last week that the buyout figure combined for these two guys was approaching a million dollars, |
| 2:05.3 | if it wasn't a million, high six figures. I mean, that in and of itself just seems wild two |
| 2:10.8 | years ago or three years ago to think about such a provision existing. But in this particular |
| 2:15.5 | negotiation, which lasted so very long, there were things that |
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