On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
Come for the Florida State football and recruiting news, stay for the nonsense. The Noles247 Podcast offers honest analysis from Brendan Sonnone, Chris Nee, and Zach Blostein.
Episodes
July 2, 2025 • 58 mins
Florida State's June surge in recruiting is being celebrated in the context of coming off a 2-10 season. What is the upside for this class once the dust settles? Are the results indicative of lessons learned?
Plus the impact of getting Jasen Lopez, the process of recruiting Earnest Rankins, and more in this episode of OTB.
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June 29, 2025 • 52 secs
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June 23, 2025 • 72 mins
Florida State landed a commitment from four-star signal caller Jaden O’Neal this weekend, giving the Seminoles a quarterback and potential front-facing member of the 2026 class.
We break down the commitment of O’Neal and its potential impact to start this episode of OTB.
Then we play some Payne or No Payne, sponsored by The Turner Group, go over trench recruiting, approach in the NIL Era, and finish with questions from subscriber...
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June 16, 2025 • 71 mins
Zach Blostein led the way with a big ol' Crystal Ball prediction as Florida State wrapped up a major weekend of official visitors.
Blostein explains why he put in a CB for five-star corner Chauncey Kennon, and what a win would mean for the Seminoles. We get into a few other predictions as well as CBs that we're considering making coming off this weekend in this episode of On The Bench.
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June 10, 2025 • 74 mins
Chris Nee's triumphant return to OTB leads us to a bevy of his favorite topics.
There's legitimate house keeping, a giant recap of the developments from FSU's OV weekend, the shakeout of QB recruiting, a hoops commit, baseball's end to the season, and more.
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June 2, 2025 • 79 mins
Camp and OV season underway as Florida State lays the groundwork to create the foundation of its 2026 recruiting class under its revamped staff.
Will the wholesale changes Mike Norvell made end up creating a noticeable difference on the recruiting trail? We weave in and out of the minutia and the big-picture topics of FSU recruiting in this episode to set the stage for what will be a telling month and change.
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May 12, 2025 • 78 mins
It's MAILBAG time!
We answer your questions and deliver our thoughts on what has changed with Mike Norvell stepping into a CEO role, whether quarterback Thomas Castellanos is an effective pocket passer, five players who need to stay healthy for FSU in 2025, funniest memories at Noles247 plus much more.
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May 6, 2025 • 68 mins
Florida State's Portal efforts in the spring window seem to be coming to a close.
We take a look at the additions, the process that FSU had in recruiting several positions, and try to project how the newcomers could impact the 2025 roster in this episode.
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April 28, 2025 • 65 mins
Florida State is deep into the spring transfer window and we breakdown the Seminoles' two additions so far, share intel on their remaining needs and targets at those positions and also breakdown some of the departures and what that means for FSU's roster composition heading into the 2025 football season.
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April 22, 2025 • 67 mins
We dive into our thoughts on Florida State's departures to the transfer portal, their process in the portal thus far and share optimisim/concern as we project FSU's depth chart exiting spring football.
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April 14, 2025 • 67 mins
The spring transfer window opens up this week. How active will Florida State be and what positions will the Seminoles target?
We preview the Portal - as well as retention strategy - while going over some of the last tidbits of spring camp, take listener questions, and try to rationalize Sonnone's reckless CB strategy.
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April 8, 2025 • 37 mins
FSU AD Michael Alford on construction progress, the salary-cap era, and more
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April 7, 2025 • 61 mins
Florida State held their second scrimmage of the spring this past Saturday and for the first and only time this spring, media was on the sidelines (kind of) and allowed to watch.
Zach Blostein hosts as he asks Brendan Sonnone and Dane Draper for their detailed thoughts after taking in FSU's scrimmage at FSU on Saturday.
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April 1, 2025 • 83 mins
We breakdown the intel we gathered from FSU's first spring scrimmage this past weekend while also delving into whether we are concerned or not with FSU's recruiting efforts thus far in the 2026 cycle. We close things out with some talk about FSU basketball and their efforts in the Transfer Portal as they look to build their team under new head coach Luke Loucks.
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March 25, 2025 • 61 mins
Skipping past Sonnone’s recent press conference snafu, this episode of On The Bench goes over some of the scoop coming out of Florida State’s spring practice.
We also dive into a few things that have caught our attention on the recruiting trail – see something, say something – a look at the QB board as it’s playing out, a legacy commit on Legacy Weekend, and more.
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March 18, 2025 • 60 mins
We spoke with head coach Mike Norvell and his entire coaching staff at Florida State yesterday and today, we're breaking down our thoughts from our conversations with the staff, FSU's change in media access and a number of other topics On The Bench.
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March 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Florida State basketball coach Luke Loucks is coming home. Can the life-long FSU fan and alum inject energy into his alma mater?
Few know FSU hoops more than Chris Nee. He breaks down the hire in this episode.
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March 3, 2025 • 54 mins
Florida State and the ACC are settling their lawsuit. What are the settlement details? What is Florida State getting out of it? How long will they remain in the ACC? Which side 'won' this settlement?
We discuss that and give our general thoughts on FSU's recruiting efforts early on in the 2026 recruiting cycle in today's episode of On The Bench
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February 25, 2025 • 77 mins
Florida State is progressing quickly towards spring football.
The gang at Noles247's On The Bench podcast opens up the MAILBAG to take questions on position battles, newcomers to watch, and more spring-related topics. Plus we veer off to take questions on the reasons for optimism/skepticism about the future of the program under Mike Norvell, and moves made by athletic director Michael Alford.
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February 17, 2025 • 78 mins
Florida State brought in a new coordinator on each side of the ball and added more than 30 new players to the roster.
But will this lead to a drastic turnaround in 2025?
Now that the dust is mostly settled, we go over the 10 datapoints we outlined before the offseason started. How does the OTB team think Mike Norvell did in revamping the program based on the info we currently have?
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