Tears Nole Tears (“Offcial”)

[cookies]

How awful of a recruiter he and his staff must be to have inherited a program who won a championship and went undefeated in the regular season after that — about 8 years prior to the 2023 signing day— and still not land legacy recruit Duce Robinson.

FSU winning its third national championship in January of 2014, mere weeks before Robinson’s ninth birthday, only further cemented Robinson’s fandom.

Dream school etc

“[That title] was right in the sweet spot in terms of your understanding of the game and what’s happening and what it means to win a national championship,” Dominic Robinson, Duce’s father, told Tomahawk Nation in an interview. “I just remember that moment and being like, ‘Thank God. This is perfect.’ … For [Kelvin Benjamin] to score the game-winning touchdown and for Duce and I to share that moment together, I’ll never forget it, I know he’ll never forget it.”

The guy didn’t even give FSU an OV lmfao.

“Florida State has always been a very special place to me,” Robinson said during his introductory interview in February. “Growing up, my pops went to Florida State, my mom went to Florida. … Me and all my brothers were Florida State fans, so my mom got the short end of the stick.”
He dressed up as an FSU football player for Halloween when he was five years old and made a point of always wearing FSU gear in family photos.

This is just hilarious

The elder Robinson, who finished his collegiate career with 680 receiving yards, 321 punt-return yards and two touchdowns, admits he’s happy now with how it worked out, even if that wasn’t always the case.
“I am thankful for the way that it happened,“ Dominic Robinson, a member of the 2001-04 FSU football teams and the 2002 FSU baseball team, said. ”But I was very angry for a really long time because they absolutely botched his initial recruitment. I was very frustrated and I’ve been pretty vocal about it.”

It took a winding path for Duce to eventually follow in his father’s footsteps at FSU. A soured relationship eliminated the Seminoles early in his high-school recruitment and led to him signing with USC as a five-star prospect and the No. 1 tight end in the 2023 recruiting class, according to the 247Sports composite rankings.

As his dad says it, Duce Robinson could have very well been FSU-bound out of high school despite being all the way across the country in Arizona. He received an offer from FSU baseball’s coaching staff as an eighth-grader.

However, a planned call from then-FSU offensive coordinator Kenny Dillingham came a day later than it was supposed to, and once it did, Duce was surprised to hear that he wasn’t going to be getting an offer as a young, relatively unproven prospect because he was an FSU legacy.
While Dominic admits his son may not have been an FSU-caliber prospect at that time, it soured things from Duce’s perspective when FSU began offering other receivers whom the Robinsons perceived to be worse prospects.

Dillingham and Dominic have talked about this since, making amends. Dillingham even tried to recruit Duce to Arizona State when he was a portal prospect this past offseason.

 

[TakeitinDiaz]

He'll be Coker-ed. May end up with a UTSA type job, taking a new D1 team. My guess is he retires with his $100M,. Maybe he becomes an analyst or goes into sports commentary. I can't see him being a position coach.

Sports commentary? Have you heard his voice?

 

[BALLHAWKU]

He'll be Coker-ed. May end up with a UTSA type job, taking a new D1 team. My guess is he retires with his $100M,. Maybe he becomes an analyst or goes into sports commentary. I can't see him being a position coach.

Can they afford to buy him out and a new coach ? I don’t see it believe they’re stuck another two years

 

[grover]

Can they afford to buy him out and a new coach ? I don’t see it believe they’re stuck another two years

They can't afford not to. Personally, I think they should go cheap not expensive. Go the Indiana route and hope you strike gold -- Per Indiana Star, Cignetti had a $500K base + $3.5 to $4M marketing/promotional income + $250K retention bonus annually. Noles can afford to make that extra incestment to get rid of the rot.

 

[BALLHAWKU]

They can't afford not to. Personally, I think they should go cheap not expensive. Go the Indiana route and hope you strike gold -- Per Indiana Star, Cignetti had a $500K base + $3.5 to $4M marketing/promotional income + $250K retention bonus annually. Noles can afford to make that extra incestment to get rid of the rot.

Im not end hiring washed up head coaches either who want topprices example Kelly , Diaz is trash too , Jimbo , ……