The past couple of years have been rough for Florida fans when dealing with Miami fans. After both programs were seemingly in the same boat heading into the 2024 season, the Gators were boatraced by the Hurricanes in The Swamp in 2024, and then DJ Lagway managed 61 yards passing this past season at Miami.
But as Florida is trying to get its ducks in a row under Jon Sumrall and has put together a top-five class for 2027, Miami fans are forced to at least nod in approval of what the Gators are building. More importantly, in the Sunshine State’s triangle of hate, both fan bases are able to point and laugh at whatever is going on in Tallahassee with Mike Norvell and FSU.
Florida and Miami fans can only point and laugh at FSU
If you haven’t kept up with recruiting, the Gators and the Hurricanes have been going back and forth in the rankings, and Miami just got five-star EDGE Jaiden Bryant to flip from LSU to Miami. That has Mario Critobal and friends in 3rd in the 247 Composite rankings while Florida sits in 4th. If you are honest with yourself, anything that is that close in the rankings is going to come down to semantics and ultimately development.
What is no close is where FSU sits in the rankings for the class of 2027. The Seminoles are currently sitting with seven commits, five of which are three-stars. That has FSU ranked 51st in the 247 Composite rankings. Among the schools that have currently pieced together a better class of 2027 than FSU are Kansas, Boston College, and Rutgers.
And it’s not like things are going to get better for FSU, as now they have had a string of cancellations for official visits.
FSU is a sinking ship
If one makes a comparison to FSU and the Titanic, the graphic of Alabama coming up to make the playoffs ahead of FSU in 2023 was their iceberg. And as much as FSU fans tried to laugh off their 63-3 drubbing at the hands of Georgia in the Orange Bowl a month later, we here at Hail Florida Hail did give Seminole fans an ominous warning. We said on New Year’s Day of 2024 that:
“Um, question though. All the players who opted out were players who weren't going to return in 2024 anyway. But, if the players that did take the field in Garnet and Gold on Saturday are not the 2024 Seminoles either, then who is?
If FSU had lost by something like 35-3 or 45-10, no one would have blinked. 63-3 is FSU wasting any opportunity it had to get the players that will make up their 2024 squad better. 63-3 is FSU throwing a month long pity party and winding up with a less productive bowl month than Florida.
63-3 is a sign that 2023 was built on smoke and mirrors by a team that got away with having zero depth by playing in a weak conference.
When one loses by more than Bishop Sycamore, there are red flags that come with it.”
As Doak Campbell Stadium has continued to take on more and more water, we are at the point where all the lifeboats are gone and the only thing left to happen is for the whole thing to officially sink.
The problem for FSU, one that is self-inflicted, is that they gave Norvell a massive extension after that 2023 season, and they have no way to get out of it. Combine that with the fact that they have ticked off everyone within the ACC, and there is no one looking to lend them a helping hand.
So while Florida fans aren’t exactly looking to attend a Miami cookout anytime soon, both fan bases are in agreement that beating up on FSU is like watching someone in an escape room who is completely lost and nowhere near the solution.
It’s fun.
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