FSU recruiting has always operated at a high level no matter who the coach has been. When FSU recruiting started to dip in the late years of Bobby Bowden, Jimbo Fisher was able to right the ship fairly quickly upon taking over as head coach.
The same has happened now that the latter bolted to some school in Texas with Willie Taggart taking over the reigns and preventing a recruiting disaster on short notice with the 2018 class.
Taggart was able to salvage the mess made by the former coach and finished with the No.