{"id":260489,"date":"2026-05-06T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260489\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:41:25","slug":"noles-news-bud-elliott-says-that-fsu-has-had-the-worst-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260489\/","title":{"rendered":"Noles News: Bud Elliott says that FSU has had the worst offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Sports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thomas Bassong hit the portal and landed at Mississippi State despite being a key piece that was seemingly retained yet Coach Loucks didn\u2019t falter and bounced back with an excellent portal class. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomahawknation.com\/florida-state-seminoles-basketball-fsu-noles-hoops-team-tallahassee-college-cbb-acc\/131719\/thomas-bassong-departure-athletics-new-reality-while-luke-loucks-response-new-culture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:That\u2019s the new reality of college athletics and FSU Basketball is operating efficiently in the new era.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;That\u2019s the new reality of college athletics and FSU Basketball is operating efficiently in the new era.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">That\u2019s the new reality of college athletics and FSU Basketball is operating efficiently in the new era.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As the back to back ACC regular season champion FSU Softball will be off until Thursday, where they will face the winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/theacc.com\/news\/2026\/5\/3\/2026-allstate-acc-softball-championship-bracket-revealed.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech in the ACC Tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Isa Torres finishes the regular season with a .547 batting average while also fielding zero errors; one of the best seasons in NCAA history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Baseball will take on Jacksonville tonight at 7:00PM before heading to Clemson for the last road series of the regular season:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A strong 4-0 week wasn\u2019t the only good thing to happen for FSU Baseball last week as six Seminoles also graduated:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">FSU\u2019s RPI is 7th but the human polls still have them relatively outside of the top ten:<\/p>\n<p>Football:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">President McCullough couldn\u2019t help but throw one to Duce as he walked across the stage last weekend:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bud Elliott on Cover 3 Sports yesterday did not hold back on his evaluation of FSU\u2019s offseason so far, if it doesn\u2019t directly take you to the timestamp it starts at 39:58:<\/p>\n<p>Recruiting:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">FSU has offered three-star 2027 WR Kaden Howard from Palmetto High School from Miami, Florida:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If there\u2019s one position FSU can generally pull an upset on the recruiting trail, it\u2019s running back but pulling 2028 RB Ian Thomas and likely Five-Star out of Texas will be a tough pull:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Sports: Thomas Bassong hit the portal and landed at Mississippi State despite being a key piece that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3731,3603,4976,61,10088,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-260489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-florida-state-seminoles","tag-fsu","tag-mike-norvell","tag-mississippi-state","tag-nc-state-wolfpack","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}