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On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

FSU GM Darrick Yray on roster building, trench emphasis, and adapting

On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network

247Sports, Florida State, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State football, FSU football, college football

Basketball, Football, Sports

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A football roster is ever changing. The pieces on a roster for a season might appear to stay the same, but the needs and options to fill said needs are constantly being evaluated. That makes the job Darrick Yray holds, as Florida State's general manager, an integral one. From researching trends across athletics, to pouring through film, to self evaluating, Yray and the rest of FSU's front office have taken a meticulous approach in helping the roster get to the point where the Seminoles are expected to be back in the mix atop the ACC in 2023. Yray sits down with On The Bench to go over some general thoughts on roster building philosophies and trends. You can subscribe to On The Bench, X’s and Noles, and Beyond The Bench on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. As always, five-star reviews and comments on Apple Podcasts are appreciated! Also, you can watch the show on YouTube now. We'll do live streams as well, and you can get notifications on when we're live by subscribing to our YouTube channel. 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

Join us now is Florida State General Manager Derek Ray Derek. Good morning. Good

0:23.2

almost afternoon. Depends on what people are going to listen to this. It probably

0:25.9

doesn't really matter what type of date it is as far as their listing, but hopefully

0:29.0

you're doing well here. I know that the summer has been pretty busy for you. How are you

0:34.5

feeling with June season in the rearview mirror now? Yeah, Brennan, thanks for having me

0:40.6

on. Obviously been around Coach Morvela. It's all a good morning. Any no matter at the

0:44.4

time of the day. Good morning. Loudly usually. You know, feeling good. I'm proud of the

0:50.7

group and the effort that we kind of put forth and over is across camps and official visits

0:55.9

and unofficial visits and everything in between and some adversity that hit with a couple

1:01.2

storms rolling through during some different camps. You know, but excited for the effort

1:06.7

and the work that took place, but also moving forward and looking towards the future and

1:10.6

what's currently present right now with our current team. I don't think we've talked

1:15.3

about it on our podcast, but really the last day of camps with, there's supposed to be

1:21.9

the seven on seven big man camp. You guys got rained out like a massive storm popped out

1:26.4

of nowhere and just hovered over Tallahassee for like two hours. It was crazy. You guys adjusted

1:32.2

and you adapted. I know Coach Morvela is always big on response, right? Like, what was

1:38.4

the strategy of like, okay, how do we, how do we make this somewhat salvageable now

1:44.6

to get this a productive day? Because for my vantage point, you can explain it to our listeners

1:49.5

like what you guys did, but it was really cool to see that adaptation like in real time.

1:53.8

Yeah, you know, obviously we had 40 plus teams up here and you know, you want to create

1:58.2

that experience and you know, just obviously it's not ideal for anyone of kind of what

2:03.8

took place and being rained out and having various teams that drove, you know, some good

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