Alrighty, all righty. Happy New Year, everybody, and welcome into the first smash of 2025. He's

Irish Raffel. My name is Tom Lang, and this is the Monday Smash presented by State Farm Agent

Russ Forges, who serves Knowles and serves everybody, really, throughout the state of Florida,

Georgia, Alabama. We'll talk about him in a little bit. But in 2025, Florida State's roster

already looks really different than it did just about three, four weeks ago.

And we're going to talk about that tonight.

We'll also just be chatting about Florida State as a football program in 2025.

It's just like a draft night in the NFL.

Hope springs abound when the calendar changes from one month or one year to the next era.

How was your holiday?

How was your birthday? Happy belated birthday. And how have things been since our last smash a few weeks ago?

Thanks, man. Everything's great. Yeah, just like Florida State football, we're just focused on the

future. We're looking ahead. We're not looking back much of 2024. And now it's great. The kids

were home. We had a good time. We didn't do anything crazy.

It was just nice to be around family. And again, it was nice to kind of have some plenty of good news for Florida State over the last few weeks.

Really, I guess, if you go back to the end of the regular season, it's been one steady flow of new coaches, new coordinators, new players, and a new season lies ahead.

And with the new across the board, you're right about that.

There's the coaching changes, obviously, for Florida State then.

Once you got to the Wednesday evening portion of the early signing period, I are through Friday with high school players,

Florida State with a lot of high profile flips,

a lot of good tidings, glad tidings around the holidays. Next thing you know,

Deuce Robinson says yes, after Castellanos, he gets linebackers, defensive linemen, and four

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