Noles News Now: FSU All-Americans, recruiting battles, Miami Hurricanes under NCAA investigation?

Happy Friday and welcome in to Noles News Now, your audio home for all things Florida State sports here on the Tomahawk Nation podcast network. I’m Brian Pellerin, your host to lead you into the weekend... a rather uneventful weekend in terms of games I might add as we slowly build our way back toward the fall sports season. The most notable of those is of course football, which is about two months away now, but we are in the middle of preseason all-American season and we had a few Noles land on the Phil Steele magazine All-American team as well as a few others on the All-ACC teams on Thursday. Your second-team all-American according to them is DB Jammie Robinson. Jammie also grabbed first team all ACC. The others named to their All-ACC teams are Alex Mastromanno on the second team, as well as Dillan Gibbons, Mycah Pittman, Robert Cooper, and Camren McDonald on the third team. On campus this weekend, the biggest competition will be in recruiting as four-star linebacker Blake Nichelson should be arriving for his official visit today. They’ll look to keep the moment rolling from the commitment they scooped up earlier this week from a late 2022 defensive lineman. Elsewhere in the ACC, a tough blow for Boston College as their best offensive lineman will likely miss the entire season following an ACL tear. Star guard Christian Mahogany is considered one of the top prospects for the next NFL Draft so that’s a tough blow for B-C. He’ll surely be tough to replace this season. Noles host the Eagles on September 24. The NCAA is still working to catch up to the quickly changing landscape of their sports as they are apparently recommending some guidelines to the transfer portal. That includes recommending a transfer window process, which basically gives athletes certain times of the year to enter the portal instead of being free agents able to bounce around at any time. They’re also recommending an expedited process to punish teams that commit infractions. Right now, that process drags for years. That is certainly not a sustainable model in this day and age where you can use the portal to retool a roster in one season. Those recommendations will go before the board later this month. The actual vote could come as early as August. That is all according to ESPN’s Heather Dinnich. Quicker infractions and punishments could be a big problem for Miami and their mega booster John Ruiz. The self-proclaimed billionaire cutting the program’s NIL deals met with the NCAA to discuss those payments. Ruiz told CBS Sports that he took the meeting voluntarily and that it was nothing to be concerned about if you’re a Canes fan, but certainly not a good look to be the first school under the microscope given their history we’ll see where that leads. Never too early to look into the future at some other upcoming seasons. That includes the FSU hoops team that has their roster ready to rock for their winter season. The hoops-dedicated podcast crew looked at the group suiting up for the New Bloods this year to get your expectations set for Leonard Hamilton’s boys. And if you’re already missing softball season, Gwyn Rhodes continued her fantastic coverage of that program and dropped the first of her meet the team series looking at the Super Seniors for 2023. A group that’ll be tasked with righting the wrongs of this season’s conclusion and hopefully getting FSU back to OKC. As always, anything that comes up through the weekend will be on TomahawkNation.com. For now, I’m Brian Pellerin. Thanks for listening to Noles News Now. We’ll be back again on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices