OrangeBowlMagic
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He’s never recruited well and he won’t recruit well. Ever. Napier is a totally different beast than Norvell.
I don’t like to repeat myself, unless I forget that I said it before in which I case I will definitely repeat myself, but Norvell is the fastest guy at a strength competition.
Yup. Nobody should even be thinking or talking about FSU. Their ceiling is so low with Norvell. He literally has zero chance of winning anything significant unless he shakes up that staff in a major way, and even then it's probably not enough. I've said this 500X in this thread, but he's a pretty good football coach, so they'll probably be a pretty good football team going forward. But when you recruit the way that he does, you can be the best coach in the history of the game, you're not breaking into the upper echelon of the sport. Their absolute ceiling with Norvell, at any point in the future barring a major shift in recruiting skill and philosophy via a totally new staff, is about 9-3. They have literally zero chance to compete for a national championship with him. The longer he's there, the better for us. It's why I've been saying 7-5ish is the best possible outcome for us. It keeps him firmly entrenched as the head coach, but gives them no additional recruiting momentum. They'll finish with a class around 20th, again, and continue to live in complete mediocrity.