Recently, FSU has been trying to clean up it's act after an embarrassing academic scandal. Making things worse, their top commit E.J. Manuel revealed in an interview that he was told up to 800 students were involved, and the focus had been on football players. That story has it's own credibility issues I'll tackle another time, so we'll move on.
Part of FSU's self-imposed disciplinary actions was to cut football scholarships. Though we don't know how many were cut quite just yet, it doesn't seem to have been affecting the 2009 recruiting class. Yesterday they landed their 4th commitment from a high school junior looking to play football for the Noles.
The problem is that this commitment doesn't come with all-around praise like the previous 3 did. The recruit in question, C.J. Mizell, comes with some serious red-flags. Mizell apparently had to skip his junior year of football after transferring from a Georgia high school due to an incident where he attacked a coach and gave him a serious head injury that resulted in a concussion. CJ was then barred from GA high school sports and thus had to move to Leon.
His talent is unquestionable, but I have to say that it probably isn't the best idea for FSU to bring in kids with these kinds of issues right now. For all we know Mizell has learned from the incident, but it's still a pretty big risk for a program whose reputation is in decline.
Additionally, rumor is that two players have left the team. One, Jamaal Edwards, was a superstar RB recruit that didn't pan out for the Noles. The other player was junior OL Geoff Berniard. I'll try to find confirmation for you guys later.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
FSU Good and Bad
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Not sure what your point is about Edwards and Berniard, but neither were going to see much PT any time soon. I don't think Berniard has ever been in shape to play OL under Trickett, and Edwards finds himself in a logjam at RB behind Antone Smith, a soon-to-be healthy Marcus Sims, and several talented freshmen backs that just signed (none of the guys I just referenced were slouch recruits, and in fact most would have actually been more highly regarded than Edwards).
No point there. Just informing you guys about the potential transfers and who they were. Edwards probably had good reason to leave, because as you said he had several heralded recruits ahead of him.
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