What's next for FSU after some misses on ESP?(Episode 85)
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Florida State looks to be exiting the Early Signing Period with significant work to do at key positions such as quarterback and offensive line. It was a rough couple days for FSU as QB Sam Howell flipped to UNC and OL William Putnam chose Clemson over the Seminoles in a tight race. The Noles247 Podcast takes a look at how the last few days transpired and where FSU goes from here as it tries to rebound from a disappointing Early Signing Period.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Noles 24-7 podcast. I don't know how, but this is going to be more unprofessional than usual. |
| 0:05.2 | And I think it's Josh's fault. He's the one bringing us down. Yeah, he's the weak link here. |
| 0:10.0 | What's up guys? How you doing? Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:12.1 | Hey, that's Josh Newburgh's voice. This is Brendan Sinones, the not so grumpy |
| 0:16.1 | Chris Knee over here too. He's jolly. |
| 0:18.0 | You can't be grumpy just before Christmas. He's wearing red. He's ready to go. |
| 0:21.6 | He's been singing Christmas songs, so we're going to lighten your guy's mood right now |
| 0:26.3 | Because a lot of people aren't happy with Florida State's results so far in the early signing period and it's not done yet |
| 0:32.1 | But we're not expecting any more |
| 0:34.0 | additions who knows after I said that they'll probably one more addition but we're |
| 0:37.3 | not expecting as soon as this pot ends something will come for the fax machine as though it still |
| 0:41.6 | exist they don't use facts machines. |
| 0:44.0 | I think they do. |
| 0:45.0 | That's stupid. |
| 0:46.0 | Anyways, FSU sits at number 14 right now in the nation and that's not terrible, |
| 0:50.0 | but given the background of Lily Taggart and his prowess as a recruiter, you expect more. |
| 0:56.2 | And I don't think it's just the ranking and where they sit, it's some of the losses they've had in recent days. |
| 1:00.5 | So we'll get into that. |
| 1:02.1 | We'll start with, how about Sam Howe? We'll go back a couple of days. So we'll get into that. We'll start with how about Sam Howe. We'll go back a couple of days and him flipping to North Carolina. Josh, I'll hand us someone off to you because you were pretty adamant thinking he was going to flip before he got some intel that led us to believe he |
| 1:13.4 | definitely was flipping and you wrote a really good story on it too Josh about the |
| 1:17.5 | whole Sam Hal the timeline of it so I'll kick this off to you and kind of you |
| 1:22.2 | tell our |
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