The West Coast/West Side 'Noles Movement (Episode 68)
On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
247Sports, Florida State, Florida State Seminoles, Florida State football, FSU football, college foo
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Florida State's commitment to recruiting elite players from the west coast will be evident in its season opener against Virginia Tech. California product Jaiden Woodbey could start at linebacker as a true freshman, while blue-chip recruit Kayvon Thibodeaux will watch on in-person while on an official visit. The Noles247 Podcast brings in 247 recruiting analyst Greg Biggins to lend some first-hand perspective on FSU's commitment to California area. Biggins, regarded as one of the most plugged-in recruiting reporters in California, shares his thoughts, insights and stories from closely covering some of FSU's top targets in recent years.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the Knowles 24-7 podcast. This is Brendan Sonone and we have a different kind of format for you guys today. |
| 0:06.3 | Chris Knee is not with us. Well, he's with us on this planet, but like not with me doing this |
| 0:12.0 | podcast right now. We have a special guest and that is |
| 0:15.0 | Greg Biggins the national recruiting analyst for 24-7 sports residing in California |
| 0:19.9 | he specializes in recruiting the West, or covering recruiting the West Coast and he covers the crap out of it, like he's as good as it gets. |
| 0:27.5 | And I'm gonna really just do a lot of giving Greg a ton of praise right now to soften them up and really make them feel nice and comfortable. |
| 0:37.6 | Greg, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:40.1 | You don't need to soften me up, man. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm good to talk to you always good to talk Florida State football growing up those are the you know Florida State Miami those are the team who's back in as a so-cal guy I love watching those games I woke up early to watch those games back in the late 80s. So, no man, it's a pleasure. |
| 0:55.8 | I remember going out to California when I was like probably six or seven and my brother lived out in San Francisco and we we my dad and I got up and went to a bar like at 9 a.m. I wasn't drinking obviously because again I was 6 or 7 but we got up to watch what was a noon Florida State Florida game and we watched it at 9 a.m. |
| 1:13.2 | And it was awesome. |
| 1:14.2 | I can only imagine how awesome it is to be able to watch like football in the morning all the time. |
| 1:18.4 | That's pretty cool. |
| 1:20.3 | It is. |
| 1:21.3 | I can't imagine, especially Monday night football. |
| 1:22.8 | I can't imagine being on East Coast waiting until midnight to watch games. |
| 1:25.6 | So that's one little advantage we have out here. |
| 1:28.0 | That's probably the only one, but you know, it's always good to watch football at a decent hour. |
| 1:32.6 | And you have the weather too, which is. |
| 1:34.5 | Weather's not bad. |
| 1:35.3 | Weather's not bad. |
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