Recruiting
Three-star 2022 prospect D’Arco Perkins, a 6’1 189 pound safety from Nashville with offers from the likes of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Michigan, Penn State, South Carolina, TCU, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M, and Virginia Tech, got a Florida State offer this week.
In a continuation of NoleThruAndThru’s State of Recruiting series, the recruiting soothsayer previews the 2022 FSU linebacker big board and the names you need to keep an eye on.
If you’ve missed out on any other of the position breakdowns so far, or if you want a refresher, you can find a stream of the entire series here.
In the meantime, if you’ve got any questions you wanted to ask our recruiting experts, you can head to our Florida State Seminoles football recruiting thread, where the only thing we charge you is your time.
We’re on visit watch, with the dead period set to officially end in less than two weeks:
Clemson ⚪️- June 6th @coachski_
— keldric faulk (@FaulkKeldric) May 18, 2021
FSU Camp - June 13th @AustinTTucker
Auburn - June 14th @CoachMikeBobo
LSU - June 17th @CMBellaire_LSU
Georgia Tech - June 21st @Coach_NBurton
Kentucky ⚪️- June 22nd @CoachJonSumrall
Alabama - June 26th @CoachKellyUA1
I will be at these colleges on these dates
— D O O G I E ✌ (@TheRealJMiller4) May 18, 2021
Virginia Tech: June 2nd
Clemson: June 6th
Florida State: June 8th
Florida: June 9th
UNC: June 16th
Penn State: June 25th
2022 five-star wide receiver (No. 2 WR in the class) Kevin Coleman Jr. showcasing one of FSU’s newest graphic campaigns:
Always stood above all #GoNoles pic.twitter.com/LDmPAe2Aja
— Kevin Lamar Coleman Jr (@KevinLamarCole1) May 18, 2021
Football
FSU got its kickoff time for the season opener vs. Notre Dame — and it’ll be a primetime Sunday night game for the Noles.
#Kickoff is coming soon! Can’t wait to see the #NoleFamily packing out #Doak in #PrimeTime #KeepCLIMBing https://t.co/kKF1QxlCpv
— Mike Norvell (@Coach_Norvell) May 18, 2021
All.About.Relationships. ❤️✊ pic.twitter.com/gumhzqGHQn
— Chris Marve (@Coach_Marve) May 18, 2021
year two @thereal_cam3 pic.twitter.com/IxnKs8WeUd
— Los Angeles Rams (@RamsNFL) May 18, 2021
Basketball
Best of luck to Devin, Trent, and Terance in the NBA Playoffs! pic.twitter.com/us6bmYAbdw
— Leonard Hamilton (@FSUCoachHam) May 18, 2021
Louisville, caught up in a ridiculous scandal you say? Why, I never:
Gaudio extorted money from UofL, threatening to tell the media about recruiting violations, according to the charging document.
— Jason Riley (@JasonRileyWDRB) May 18, 2021
Gaudio sent a text to UofL officials on March 17 containing one of the recruiting videos he was threatening to send the media, according to the charging documents pic.twitter.com/BNBIKM193x
— Jason Riley (@JasonRileyWDRB) May 18, 2021
This from our SB Nation sister site Card Chronicle sums it up best:
The first major negative Louisville sports story that this website covered was Karen Sypher’s attempted extortion of Rick Pitino, which began all the way back in 2009.
The nine millionth negative Louisville sports story that the site is now covering is former assistant basketball coach Dino Gaudio’s attempted extortion of the program he used to work for.
Wherever you go, there you are.
All Sports
Women’s tennis kicks off its Elite 8 match vs. Texas today — we’ll have a full preview with stream information posted.
Freshman Brett Roberts was the low hitter (69)* for the top-seeded Florida State men’s golf team, as FSU logged a 7-under 281 to build an eight-stroke lead at the NCAA Regional at Seminole Legacy Golf Club. The final round starts today at 8 a.m., which if you’re up, you can follow along with here.
Another par putt for the Noles...this time from @VincentNorrman.
— FSU Golf (@FSUGolf) May 18, 2021
Norrman finishes his day at 2️⃣-under and tied for sixth place! pic.twitter.com/gp6r3GMrpZ
Meanwhile, FSU women’s golf head coach Amy Bond, who helped guide her squad to a team title at the 2021 NCAA Louisville Regional Championship, was named to the watch list for the WGCA National Coach of the Year. The Seminoles tee off again next this Friday as part of the NCAA Championship Finals.
*nice