02-03-2012, 05:34 PM
Lots of kids from Alabama go to FSU. My daughter's best friend in HS went to FSU. Several kids from her class did. It's a certain kind of school. BIG, Florida, casual, mega-social, into their sports in a near-SEC kind of way. Good baseball program. And it carries a lot of clout with kids in the Southeast. A perfectly reasonable place to go to school.Â
But if you choose that kind of school, and are a star athlete, there's a brobdingnagian distance between what you apparently like and what Stanford offers. Remember a lot of our recruits this year echoed and applauded Luck's comments about the atmosphere and how star athletes weren't treated as anybody special. That just seems pretty different place than what Jameis chose in the first place.  Not about snobbery, just a signal as to his tastes and what he wants.
But if you choose that kind of school, and are a star athlete, there's a brobdingnagian distance between what you apparently like and what Stanford offers. Remember a lot of our recruits this year echoed and applauded Luck's comments about the atmosphere and how star athletes weren't treated as anybody special. That just seems pretty different place than what Jameis chose in the first place.  Not about snobbery, just a signal as to his tastes and what he wants.