The quarterback and the Seminoles look to prove themselves, starting with a Week 0 matchup with Georgia Tech.
EJ Manuel and Dan Orlovsky break down the main contenders in the ACC and ponder whether Florida State can make a national championship push. first day of fall practice at Florida State. But his college career has not gone according to plan -- not his plans, those of the recruiting prognosticators who lavished him with four and five stars or those of any of the sport's talking heads who foretold his ascendance. So it's also hisfirst day of fall practice at Florida State.
She nods in the quarterback's direction."I'd really thought I'd seen it and heard it all," she says."You know, 25 years with Coach Bowden. Eight years with Jimbo. He is something different. It's wonderful."His new coaches and teammates will tell you he's something different too. So will his old teammates and coaches.
"I didn't think I would be here, at Florida State," he says, nestled in the team's quarterbacks room -- as much as a man who is 6-foot-4 and weighs about 250 pounds can nestle. Over his shoulder, images of former Seminole luminaries stand guard."I didn't think I'd transfer twice or be at three different schools in my college career or be in college for five years. I thought it was gonna be three-and-out, straight outta Clemson, to the league.
Uiagalelei is, according to everyone around him, a humble man. Someone happy to cede the spotlight and its attendant applause. Heading into his senior year at St. John Bosco, he bowed out of the Elite 11 -- where high school quarterback royalty flocks to see and be seen -- when his team was putting in a lackluster training camp. He wanted to stay local to help right the ship instead.
Then, on the heels of a heartening one-year showing in Corvallis -- he finished No. 12 in QBR, after checking in at 97 and 52 in his two years starting at Clemson -- with the Pac-12 in a death spiral, Smith departed for. And Uiagalelei chose to start over again too. He entered the transfer portal, and within the hour, Norvell rang Uiagalelei's phone. Some 24 hours after that, Tony Tokarz, Florida State's quarterbacks coach, touched down in Oregon to meet with Uiagalelei.
For his new group of receivers, a four-day trip back to Uiagalelei's hometown in California did the trick. As did the back-foot toss he threw to Douglas this fall camp that wasout of bounds, right where only Douglas, and not the defender draped over him, could catch it."Man, that dude is special," Douglas said.
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