It's another year in T-Town, with a deity's worth of incoming freshman 5-star recruits (Harris, Leatherwood, Moses, Jeudy, Ray, Tua), although with the caveat of losing 10 players to Sundays alone this past draft, most in the Common Draft era for the program, plus three more as UDFAs (Mazza, Kirven, Dieter).
This will be an interesting year for this program, given its youth, much like the 2012 squad, which thankfully still has some very solid leadership, such as WR Calvin Ridley, SS Minkah Fitzpatrick, X-receiver Cam Sims, and MLB Rashaan Evans. Ultimately, the big question on this deep is if sophomore QB Jalen Hurts can improve on his deep accuracy from a year ago, where he was the first true freshman to start for the Capstone since 1984, despite pleas from some to start incoming long armed southpaw freshman Tua Tagovailoa.
The lesser story I've heard, but will absolutely matter: Who is the 2nd CB after Averett? Supposedly Diggs, but he has looked very raw in the prior film I've prospected him on. Either he or redshirt freshman Nigel Knott need to step up. My internal kicker also wonders if Bulovas will have proper follow through with his first year in the program, if Scott, the team's supremely underrated punter will take on double duties, or if Pappanastos will win the job despite issues from even midrange by collegiate standards. They also bring in former Patriots TE coach Brian Daboll to be their offensive coordinator. Will be interesting to see if they wind up running a simplified Perkins-Erhardt offense, with overall less defined roles for players.
So where does this team go? Who steps up? They'll be tested early with the CFA Kickoff, by no means a slam dunk by both opponent and geolocation in Florida State to begin the year on September 2nd. This season can't start soon enough, looking to avenge a heart crushing loss against Clemson in the Natty.
This will be an interesting year for this program, given its youth, much like the 2012 squad, which thankfully still has some very solid leadership, such as WR Calvin Ridley, SS Minkah Fitzpatrick, X-receiver Cam Sims, and MLB Rashaan Evans. Ultimately, the big question on this deep is if sophomore QB Jalen Hurts can improve on his deep accuracy from a year ago, where he was the first true freshman to start for the Capstone since 1984, despite pleas from some to start incoming long armed southpaw freshman Tua Tagovailoa.
The lesser story I've heard, but will absolutely matter: Who is the 2nd CB after Averett? Supposedly Diggs, but he has looked very raw in the prior film I've prospected him on. Either he or redshirt freshman Nigel Knott need to step up. My internal kicker also wonders if Bulovas will have proper follow through with his first year in the program, if Scott, the team's supremely underrated punter will take on double duties, or if Pappanastos will win the job despite issues from even midrange by collegiate standards. They also bring in former Patriots TE coach Brian Daboll to be their offensive coordinator. Will be interesting to see if they wind up running a simplified Perkins-Erhardt offense, with overall less defined roles for players.
So where does this team go? Who steps up? They'll be tested early with the CFA Kickoff, by no means a slam dunk by both opponent and geolocation in Florida State to begin the year on September 2nd. This season can't start soon enough, looking to avenge a heart crushing loss against Clemson in the Natty.