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hollyhood27 said:
A roster he built.
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yup more than 4-5 years is the roster you want....if its year 3 you still need work cause of missed evals that get pushed out. He was always terrible at it off the rip but they put the blinders on as fans, now he doesn't have a game changer at QB to disguise the mess he built. Dont even think he knew Travis would be that good he just threw his *** out there and it worked.
 
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Felonious Monk said:
If his hands are tied, it's because he tied them himself. It's HIS roster that HE made all by HIMSELF.
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It's the whole organization. Norvell is a goober and doesn't relate well to kids, and very few on his staff do, either. It was the #1 thing I said at the time he was hired....he's a good coach, can he recruit Florida and Georgia? He better hire a staff that can. Welp, he didn't.

So, as the first couple classes progressed, it was realized very early on that:

1. Norvell is a dork who kids don't connect with
2. FSU's NIL was a mess

So the HS classes sucked. They have their NIL in a better spot now, but the collective and department realized, without saying the quiet part out loud, this dude isn't great at collecting HS talent. But he's a decent evaluator, let's go after more proven things in the portal, and the ones we hit on, let's pay them to stay. See: Verse, Jared as an example. They gave him over $1M to come back for his last year when he'd have been a Top 15 pick if he came out after 2022.

Then, the collective had those quotes in the article a week or so ago literally saying what their strategy is. They are going to spend the majority of their NIL budget on portal kids, because they're more "known" and "sure things". Problem though it, a LOT of other schools want the "known" and "proven kids" too. So what happens when you really want Cam Ward, but other schools do, too? Welp, you settle for DJ Ukulele. Oops. Everyone wants Damien Martinez, but you can't get him, so you settle for Roydell Williams.

Yeah, you're getting portal kids. But these kids haven't done ****. Jared Verse was EXCELLENT at Albany. Sure, it was Albany, but there was tape of him putting FBS kids on their asses. Braden Fiske too. There are risks with these kids because they haven't done it at the P4 level, but they have college tape of them flat-out dominating. But you're not going to get all those kids, every single year, which is what you have to do when you're taking 1-2 year rentals. So instead, you get Shawn Murphy, because, hey, he's a Bama kid!! But he shows up, and he ******* sucks. Well, that's kinda the risk you take when you take kids who have no tape, whether they're at Bama or not. And now they're stuck having to play Davonte Brown and kids like that because, for one, those are the only assets they pulled from the portal, and two, it's not like they have a long-line of blue-chips behind them because they're been recruiting average HS classes.

VERY slippery slope right now for Norvell. They talk all this **** about Miami's "culture", and how everyone here is a mercenary, what happens if we lose some games, etc. etc. They think the kids who went there did so because they love being around Renegade? Those dudes took a lot of money too. So what happens when they lose 2-3 games by early/mid October? Glass houses, my friends.
 
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