Having covered Florida State for 38 years, here is my take on Mike Norvell’s Early Signing Day Class. Norvell grew up with a respect for a game he believes requires a love of game preparation as much as for gameday. After 12 months of evaluating his program, he feels the most urgent need is to change the existing culture. To…
Florida State coach Mike Norvell was joined by recruiting coordinator David Johnson, offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham and defensive coordinator Adam Fuller as they reflect on the 2021 signing class. The show is hosted by CBS Sports broadcaster and FSU defensive back Bryant McFadden. Johnson begins to speak at the three-minute mark. Fuller is up next at the 14-minute mark. Dillingham…
To watch the entire video interview, which includes Coach Hamilton, M.J. Walker, RaiQuan Gray, and Adrian Crawford, click here It takes a little over four hours of non-stop driving to get from Riverdale, Ga., to Tallahassee. In 2017 the Georgia 6A Basketball Player of the year M. J. Walker made the trip at the invitation of Seminole Basketball. It was a football weekend. The Noles were playing…
There could hardly have been a better beginning to the 2020-21 basketball season for the Florida State women’s team. Beating their archrivals, the Florida Gators, for the fifth straight time put a smiley face where the pandemic-caused frown had been. There was so much uncertainty surrounding the start of this season. At times it seemed questionable if there would be a season…
Alex Mastromanno had traveled but never to the United States. His first trip here was when he moved more than 10,000 miles from Australia to Tallahassee to come to Florida State and be a student-athlete. Adjusting to college life in a new city is a challenge for many freshmen. Mastromanno was moving a world away from his hometown of Melbourne,…
Camren McDonald isn’t just intent on setting goals, a list of what he wants to do after graduation and what he’d like to achieve in life. He’s driven to make a difference now. The Florida State junior tight end decided in 2020 to start a non-profit, the Making Change Foundation, with the intent on serving pizza and food to those…
Amari Gainer is Florida State’s leading tackler. He also has more tackles for loss than any of his teammates. But the tackles that have endeared him to Seminole fans are those he’s made way down the field after others have given up. Those effort tackles define No. 33. “Run to the ball,” the highly-recruited linebacker said. “That’s a little thing…
Sue Semrau treats her players like they are her daughters. After 24 years of putting her Florida State family first, sacrificing time with her mom and dad, it was time for Semrau to return home to help care for her mom, who is battling cancer. Semrau announced in September that she would take a one-year leave of absence from coaching the women’s…
Kenneth Crawford recalls watching Lawrance Toafili play his first snaps of JV football at Pinellas Park High. It was clear the freshman would soon be on varsity. “First game he touched the ball six times — he scored six times,” said Crawford, Pinellas Park’s varsity head coach. “He’s faster than people think. You double that with his vision. But probably…
Growing up in a small suburb east of Evansville, Ind., Jessica Nunge had a very competitive upbringing. Not only were her parents former collegiate athletes, but her older brother and sister are also collegiate athletes. So, when the entire family is home, one could imagine the level of petty remarks that get flung around the dinner table. The ones that…
