BREAKING: Florida State Secures MAJOR 4-star OT Commitment
Florida State has picked up a commitment from a massive 2025 target.
According to On3, four-star Offensive Tackle, Solomon Thomas has committed to Florida State.
Florida State’s Solomon Thomas Recruiting Profile
The 6-foot-4, 315-pound Offensive Tackle spoke with On3 to discuss his decision:
“It was a great game and it was a crazy atmosphere. This is the kind of atmosphere you want to play in. The coaches are great people, (they have) great teammates. And when you see guys rotating, and they have a great attitude and they are playing with a purpose and not for themselves. That’s what you want to be around.”
Thomas is the 31st ranked player in the country for the 2025 recruiting cycle, coming in as the 3rd ranked Offensive Tackle, and 3rd ranked player from the state of Florida.
The Seminoles currently have the 15th ranked class in On3’s 2025 team rankings.
Florida State has sued the ACC, setting the stage for a fight to leave over revenue concerns
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State sued the Atlantic Coast Conference on Friday, challenging an agreement that binds the school to the league for the next 12 years with more than half a billion dollars in fees for leaving and taking the first step in a lengthy and uncertain process toward a potential exit.
“Today we’ve reached a crossroad in our relationship with the ACC,” Florida State Board of Trustees chairman Peter Collins said during a trustees meeting to approve the legal action.
After months of threats and warnings from Florida State, the lawsuit was filed in Leon County Circuit Court. The suit claims the ACC has mismanaged its members’ media rights and is imposing “draconian” exit fees. Breaking the grant-of-rights agreement and leaving the ACC right now would cost Florida State $572 million, according to the lawsuit.
In a preemptive counterattack, the ACC filed a lawsuit in North Carolina against the Florida State Board of Trustees, claiming the school could not challenge the grant of rights that it had signed and that these issues should be decided in the state where the conference is located.
ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips and Virginia President Jim Ryan, chairman of the conference’s board of directors, said Florida State’s actions are “in direct conflict with their longstanding obligations and is a clear violation of their legal commitments to the other members of the conference.”
“All ACC members, including Florida State, willingly and knowingly re-signed the current Grant of Rights in 2016, which is wholly enforceable and binding through 2036,” their statement said. “Each university has benefited from this agreement, receiving millions of dollars in revenue and neither Florida State nor any other institution, has ever challenged its legitimacy.”
David Ashburn, an attorney representing Florida State, said during the board meeting the ACC’s grant of rights violates antitrust law, has unenforceable withdrawal penalties and is not even a valid contract. The lawsuit also accuses the ACC of breach of contract by not upholding conference bylaws and violation of public policy.
“It’s hard to handicap where those claims will go,” said Mit Winter, a Kansas City, Missouri-based sports attorney. “And I think Florida State knows that as well. I think they threw in anything they could potentially think of as a colorable argument to get them out of the grant-of-rights agreement.”
