Midnight Madness is nearly upon us

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🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On-campus recruiting is back on, and Florida State isn't wasting a minute. The Seminoles host nearly two-dozen priority recruits on June 1, the first day the NCAA’s dead period is lifted after more than a year. More specifically, FSU is playing host to those recruits at 12:01 a.m. Noles247 has the most extensive coverage of FSU recruiting, and we go over how the Midnight Madness event came to be and what to expect after midnight on this episode of On The Bench. 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 Brendan Sonone and today is May 31st at midnight. It will be June
0:18.4	1st. That means for the first time in more than a year, recruits will be allowed to visit campuses
0:23.6	on visit capacities on official official. It will be organized events where they can actually interact
0:29.2	with the coaching staff. It will be the first time since this pandemic started. That will be allowed.
0:33.7	At midnight, for FSU, it will be midnight madness. There will be a couple of dozen recruits, big time
0:40.0	names that we'll get into here in a few minutes. That will be visiting FSU and it'll start off a
0:44.0	firework display of what's expected to be a huge month of June for the seminoles. There I say even
0:49.8	a pivotal one. So at 1201 Joshua, what's happening here in Tallahassee? Is it a pivotal month?
0:55.2	Each month is more pivotal than the last and this is a good example of why because the NCAA
1:00.4	dead period comes to an end as you said when the clock strikes midnight and we go from May 31 to June
1:07.1	1st. You know the Florida State coaching staff is ready for this. They're going to waste no time
1:12.7	because at 1201 AM, Mike Norvell and his staff are going to kick the doors wide open at the
1:18.0	more athletic center and allow in some of the most talented players in the country for what we
1:24.0	have coined as midnight madness. I don't know if they're actually calling this midnight madness.
1:27.7	I haven't seen any graphics or any verbiage on what it's called, but we're calling it midnight
1:35.2	madness here at Noles 24-7 and we have confirmed a total of as of we recording this a total of 17
1:44.0	prospects on campus tonight. We've personally confirmed those help with Chris Nee and Zach
1:50.6	Ballstein in doing that, but midnight madness will be a chance for these recruits. You know,
1:58.4	Brendan, you were saying this is the first time since the pendant. This is the first time in the
2:03.0	Mike Norvell era that they're going to host recruits on campus during the summer and the summer
2:08.2	months are always important. You know, we've done whole podcasts on how important summer recruiting
2:12.5	can be. So this is going to kind of kick it off and if I had to compare this visit and it is
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