FSU adds another from the portal, key off-field hire & recruiting updates

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Florida State added a key transfer this week at the defensive end position in Marcus Cushnie. The guys discuss what his impact will mean for the program this season. On today's show we also break down FSU's latest off-field hire of Kenyatta Watson and how he'll boost FSU recruiting. We also update a few of FSU's important 2022 prospects that may be close to making a decision. Tune in for the latest FSU football & recruiting news. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to On the Bench. I am Josh Newberg. We almost have a full cast here. I've
0:15.9	Brendan Sonone and Zach Boston and we are three of the four members of Noles 24-7.
0:21.7	Brendan, welcome to the podcast. Hello! That was intense. Zach, how are you doing?
0:29.6	I'm good. Good. We don't have much to talk about this week, but we wanted to get on. There was
0:35.5	some breaking news in the Florida State Market this week. The Noles landed another transfer.
0:42.2	It wasn't an offensive lineman, but it was a defensive name. Should sound familiar. Marcus
0:47.1	Cushney out of Alabama, A&M. Brendan, tell me a little bit about him.
0:52.2	So Marcus Cushney is a South Florida native. Like you said, Josh, people should know his name because
0:57.7	he was here on a visit in June. FSU offered him as a preferred walk on. Almost got him as that,
1:03.9	and it would have been a hell of a hall of you were able to get him as a non scholarship player
1:08.7	for this year, but then Purdue came in at the last minute offered a scholarship. He committed
1:13.5	to Purdue. As it turns out, FSU ends up using their final scholarship on Marcus Cushney to say,
1:19.1	hey, we ended up wanting you. We will use a scholarship on you. So Marcus Cushney commits to Florida
1:24.2	state. He is someone who is very, very, very productive at the FCS level and the spring season,
1:29.5	this past spring, just a couple of months ago, he had seven sacks and just four games. His metrics
1:34.7	were really impressive. His pressure rate was really high. He had seven sacks as a sophomore,
1:38.8	as well. Josh, he's 62, 245, he says now. So decent frame. Someone who feels a pretty big need for
1:46.4	Florida state. Zach, you were able to talk to him shortly after his commitment. What's
1:53.9	what's Cushney saying? Yeah, well, I think the biggest thing that he said during the interview was
2:01.0	he was literally planning to enroll at Purdue the day he flipped to Florida state. So this was
2:07.1	like a very last minute decision. Obviously, Florida state was holding out hopes that an offensive
2:12.7	lineman was going to answer the transfer portal by that July 1 deadline so that they could pick
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