FSU gets blue-chip commtiments in football, basketball, Seminoles baseball hires new head coach Link Jarrett

Welcome to Noles News Now, your home for all things Florida State this weekend. It was a busy with headlines coming from all over campus. My name is Brian Pellerin and I’ll be running you through it as we kick off another week. Today is the day Link makes his return to Tally as Link Jarrett has his introductory press conference this morning at 10:30. Depending on when you listen to this, it might’ve already happened so check out Tomahawk nation dot com for full coverage of what the former Nole has to say about what have to assume is his dream job. We’ll have a recap podcast dropping today or first thing tomorrow morning with our baseball guys as well. Jarrett is the reigning back-to-back National Coach of the Year at Notre Dame and 1994 FSU grad. Big weekend for Mike Norvell’s team on the recruiting front with guys coming and going. 6 four-stars and 2 three stars all made the visit to campus this weekend. Full list and a breakdown of those guys is on our website. The big news though isn’t one of those guys. Instead, it’s a guy who was actually in Gainesville this weekend who committed to the Noles. Four-star 2023 offensive tackle Roderick Kearney made his intent to join the Noles known less than an hour after he finished his official visit with the Gators and their fans aren’t taking it well. Billy Napier in some hot water already? We’ll see. Regardless, this kid is a mauler. Big pancake guy. Very strong. Really impressive guy. He could be a guy you build your O-line around with offers from LSU, Louisville, Florida, and others. Great get by Alex Atkins as Kearney becomes the highest-rated commit in their class at No. 128 nationally. On the other end of the coin, the Noles did get a decommitment from long-time FSU commit TE Randy Pittman. He’d been part of their 2023 class since last April. The basketball program not wanting to be outshined this weekend landed a four-star commitment of their own as power forward Taylor Bowen announced he plans to join Leonard Hamilton and the guys. He’s the 31st overall player in his class and the 7th best-rated power forward as well. A couple of former Noles signed to compete in the NBA’s summer league after last week’s draft. Malik Osborne will join the Cavs’ summer league squad while Anthony Polite will join the Spurs group. The FSU softball players are also continuing to get their work in summer leagues this season. News there from our Gwyn Rhodes confirming Danielle Watson who was previously drafted to the USSSA Pride in the WPF will now be joining Athletes Unlimited championship season next month. Sydney Sherill already a member of AU and will also be part of that champion season. And finally, some track news as FSU star Trey Cunningham finished second in the Men’s 110m hurdle at the USA Track and Field Outdoors and secured his spot on Team USA at the World Athletics Championship. Trey was just .05 behind first. Good luck at those championships. That’ll do it for now. As always stay up to date with all our headlines, news, and notes on TomahawkNation.com. And be sure to follow and rate and review the podcast feed for more FSU news three times a week plus our other in depth podcasts. It’s all available wherever you’re hearing my voice now. Until Wednesday, I’m Brian Pellerin. Thanks for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices