Florida State football, recruiting news: Fisher considered leaving FSU after son's diagnosis

Football

- Tom D'Angelo, FSU beat writer for the Palm Beach Post, took a trip to Minnesota with Jimbo Fisher and his family to experience one of their trips for son Ethan's Fanconi Anemia treatment.

- More from D'Angelo, who shares Fisher's confession that he considered leaving Florida State after his son's diagnosis in 2011.

- The Florida State special teams unit has an incredible track record over the last 12 years on kickoff coverage, as told by our own David Visser.

- For a good laugh, SB Nation's Andy Hutchins wrote a brief history of former Florida quarterbacks succeeding at other schools after transferring away from Gainesville in the post-Tebow era.

All but one of Florida's scholarship quarterback recruits since Tebow has finished his collegiate career as something other than a Florida quarterback, with the verdict still technically out on Harris.

Recruiting

- ESPN's Tom VanHaaren details the path for a possible return of satellite camps in college football.

- The NCAA made a big rules change this week, now allowing schools to pay for two parents or guardians to accompany a recruit on a official visit to a school.

Alumni

- After Wednesday's trade moving the Philadelphia Eagles up to the No. 2 spot in the upcoming NFL draft, the talk of Jalen Ramsey being a top-two pick will likely cease. In their latest mocks, the NFL.com draft specialists have Ramsey falling anywhere between No. 3 to the Chargers and No. 6 to the Ravens.

Other Sports

- The Florida State baseball team defeated Stetson Wednesday night, completing a two-game sweep of  the Hatters.

- Andrew Karp, who made his first career start at FSU in Wednesday's win, has had a long, difficult road to Tallahassee, as written by Lauryn Vickers of the FSView.

- The FSU basketball team added a fifth person to its 2016 recruiting class in the form of 2016 JUCO shooting guard Braian Angola-Rodas.