Sam Lejeune

I don't think this was the prize of their class looking to up and leave.

It's not a, uh, Zachary Johnson situation or Sam Lejeune, who I talked to a week ago and said, Hey, now I'm locked in.

I don't think I'm going to visit anywhere else.

And then was on the sideline in Starkville to see Mississippi state beat Missouri.

If that one gets interesting with FSU, they're going to try to strike.

But to this point, Tayshaun's been very consistent with being firm to FSU.

Sam Lejeune, Colby talked about that.

Mississippi State definitely trying to make a move for a Mississippi kid.

Herb Hand has a great relationship with him, but still a ton to play out there.

I think one notable thing, though, the most notable, arguably the prize of the class with Tashaun Poole, defensive lineman, Sam Lejeune from Poplarville, Mississippi.

Just a week prior, on the record, talking with me, he said, hey, I got all these other schools hitting me up.

Mississippi State was one of them.

Yeah.

Recruiting is a weird deal when everything is as it is here, which is uncertainty.

To its credit, most of the guys in class, Sam Lejeune and Zachary, don't really fit that context.

But for the most part, most of them are pretty firmly done currently to FSU.

We'll see what ends up happening there with his recruitment.

Sam Lejeune still locked in.

He's a four star that Florida State would like to keep.

A lot of other schools trying to get him on campus.

So...

It's going to be kind of a common theme and a common story for the next several weeks and probably a couple months is that you're going to have a lot of recruits, a lot of commits to Florida State, and particularly one Sam Lejeune, the four-star defensive lineman out of Poplarville, Mississippi, that are going to start talking to the other programs that were finalists or in the mix for their recruitment prior to their commitments.

Because, hey, look,

there is just certainly an influx and some uncertainty regarding the Florida State Athletic Administration with the firing of Michael Offord and the announcement that they're restructuring the AD in a lot of ways.

And the presumption that Mike Norvell will no longer be the coach next year.

So there's going to be a lot of guys that are just going to be like, hey, you know, I really need to figure out some stability and where somebody is going to be next year.

And a guy like Jeff Levy over at Mississippi State, probably not going anywhere for Sam Lejeune.

And again, you have these assistants in these very precarious situations where they still have to do their job.

Now, could a new coach come in and change what you have agreed upon pretty quickly if they don't want you in their class anymore? 100%.

But when you have a talented guy like Tayshaun Poole, Sam Lejeune, who will fit into more defenses or those upper guys, it doesn't really matter.

You're going to want to keep them in the class.

So that's what... you could look at for a lot of these top guys.

And from those of the sources that we talked to that Florida state has been pretty competitive and a lot of the recruitments that they have been in on and have won this cycle.

So again, I don't know that money is going to necessarily be a problem here.

Now, does that mean that other programs can't come in and up their price and steal, let's say, like a Tayshaun Pooler way, or maybe Cal comes in with a better offer for Sam Lejeune, or obviously Zachary Johnson, who reclassified into this class, is still kind of feeling out his recruiting process.

He was at Texas A&M for an unofficial last weekend.

Quick little recruiting updates there.

Sam Lejeune, our four-star defensive line prospect from Poplarville, Mississippi, who did commit to FSU back in June.

That was a pretty big commitment, still is.

Was at the FSU game Labor Day night.

We're just gonna give you a, a brief on-the-top summary.

Another commit, top 247 D lineman from Poplarville, Mississippi, Sam Lejeune was in the house.

Brendan Sunone just dropped a really good, more in-depth piece.

But essentially, this is one where I think I came on here right after he committed to Florida State and said, "I don't think people understand how close this came down to the wire between Florida State and Cal." I know going into it, there were crystal balls and we felt good.