Twitter is absolutely crushing the Florida State football program for losing top recruit Travis Hunter to Seminoles alum and JacksonΒ StateΒ football team head coach Deion Sanders on Early Signing Day.
While Jackson State football fans celebrate their biggest win in decades, Florida State football fans are dealing with the fact that Travis Hunter left them at the altar.
This is what happens when Deion Sanders is the face of an HBCU program. Coach Prime took the best player in the 2022 recruiting class away from his alma mater and is bringing him to Jackson, Mississippi to play for the Tigers. The college football world has completely changed after this flip of gargantuan proportions. Welcome to the world of college athletics throughly dominated by NIL.
All the while, everybody and their brother is raking Florida State over the coals for losing Hunter.
https://twitter.com/TravisHunterJr/status/1471166038834356237
Florida State football gets harpooned over Twitter after losing Travis Hunter
It took a perfect storm of events for this unprecedented flip to even happen. Seminoles head coach Mike Norvell did not even see it coming.
https://twitter.com/KeepItGullie247/status/1471166728306634756
Travis Hunter just broke my FSU heart. He wanted to go to FSU all along because of Deion⦠but hard to pass up multi-million $$$ NIL & chance to go play for him.
β Connor Dudley (@c_dudley4) December 15, 2021
This one hurts⦠bad. @FSUFootball
https://twitter.com/BlackBen__/status/1471167087406157836
Florida State had to be down as a program. Sanders had to be leading his own program. Most importantly, NIL had to be enacted to at least give Jackson State a puncherβs chance to pull of this most monumental recruiting upset.
Travis Hunter story is mind blowingβ¦..Deion riding in like Renegade the horse at mid field and planting a dagger into Florida State.
β Matthew Greene (@greeneHouse12) December 15, 2021
Travis Hunter threw that hat like bow wow was tossing them cds in Johnson Family Vacation πππ
β WE LOSING RECIPES ! (@__colinasante) December 15, 2021
When youβre sad FSU lost Travis Hunter but you are happy for Deion and HBCUβs ππ pic.twitter.com/AFf5wlgHDt
β Bo Tilly 보μ π°π·βπ½ (@BoTilly) December 15, 2021
Ultimately, nobody is enjoying this from a third-party perspective more than rival schools like Clemson, Florida and Miami.
A quick look in on the #FSU recruiting room..... Ooohhh #TravisHunter.... pic.twitter.com/OJQWDA9rY8
β Wes Bradshaw (@wesbradshaw21) December 15, 2021
I'm actually laughing at how NIL is changing college recruiting. Looking forward to Travis Hunter being in next season's Aflac commercials.
β Jim Mogle (@FSUMogle) December 15, 2021
https://twitter.com/GatorHighlights/status/1471168161886216195
Deion After Stealing Travis Hunter from his Alum FSU pic.twitter.com/V3B0rd333t
β Trey (@Trey2Trigger) December 15, 2021
At this time, all we need to see is Hunter and Sanders co-star in an Aflac commercial next fall.
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