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OTB: What to make of linebacker recruititng

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Florida State went 0-3 on its top linebacker targets this summer, with Tavion Wallace's shocking choice to pick Arkansas over FSU, Georgia, and UF highlighting what has become a recurring trend of subpar recruiting -- for FSU's standards -- at the position.

Zach, Chris, and Dane dive into this trend and search for clarity on why repeat missteps keep occurring at the position.

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0:00.0

And the Well, well, well. He took Brendan's vice, I see.

0:25.0

Yeah.

0:26.0

What do we have to-

0:27.0

I'm just gonna start by apologizing to Zach, you were right.

0:30.0

I'm now team Zach, if you make the shirt, I will wear a shirt.

0:32.0

It's all good. Apology accepted.

0:39.1

Yeah, so we're here to discuss some interesting developments that have gone on over the last few days.

0:48.0

Obviously, I think the main reason why we want to gather tonight is the news of Tevion Wallace and his

0:57.1

commitment decision earlier this evening Tevion surprised everyone and we'll get into why it was such a big surprise and a little bit but

1:07.3

surprise to everyone you committed to Arkansas over Florida State Florida and Georgia, and it was a complete shocker.

1:17.0

I mean, Arkansas did not come up one time in any of my digging on this recruitment and that includes checking in with

1:30.0

You know individuals that were in contact with Arkansas staff nothing

1:34.0

and yeah I mean just to be candid in my reporting on it because obviously I rolled with my Florida State pick and I was wrong on that.

1:46.9

I mean I called Tavian last night and had a pre-written, you know, quotes for either Florida or Florida state because I mean that was

1:57.7

Basically told to me that you know those would be you know his top two options that he would be picking from and that you know a decision

2:05.6

internally you know amongst Tibion's camp would come in the morning well you know that

2:12.3

we now know that Arkansas was already to pick at that point when I got that information.

2:20.0

And yeah, I mean, it's just digging throughout, you know, this this recruitment it was you know, was it Florida State in Georgia?

2:29.7

Was it Florida state in Florida? Like I said Arkansas never came up one time when talking with and checking in with any of these

2:37.2

staffs involved. And these aren't like, you know, we're talking about Georgia's recruiting staff,

2:42.1

like when is Georgia you know

2:44.8

wrong on a on a read on a kid like I mean they were they were feeling FSU Florida

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