The CaneSport On3 - Why we are here at On3

It was around 1996 when CaneSport was at an industry conference where a computer maven showed up to make a presentation on the technological possibilities the next decade would bring.

He typed the word “Yahoo” onto something that somewhat resembled the modern-day browser. Then he typed the words “Florida Gators.” And the screen started rolling with all kinds of information related to the Gators. He told us this was called “The Internet.”

From that day forward, all of CaneSport’s efforts shifted toward delivering the best product that we possibly could in this new online universe.

CaneSport.com was one of the first college football team websites ever created. The modern-day networks that you see now were just becoming a vision.

A couple years later, CaneSport.com became one of the first websites to sign up with the new Rivals.com. Our site grew like a rocket ship and has been the market leader in football and recruiting coverage at Miami since that day. We have been a fixture at Rivals for the past 20 years.

Today at midnight, our contract with Rivals expired and CaneSport.com entered free agency.

We have signed to take CaneSport.com to the industry’s newest network, On3, for the same reason that we joined Rivals 20 years  ago.

This is simply the place where we today feel we can deliver the best product to the Miami Hurricanes fan base to enable everyone to maximize their passion for The U.

To celebrate the move, CaneSport and On3 have created an unprecedented $1 Site Move Special subscription price for ALL MIAMI FANS that will be good for the first 12 months of every subscription.

It’s our gift to Canes Nation to show our appreciation for three decades of support. After the first year, everyone will have the option of paying $99 for an annual subscription or $9.99 monthly.

Our mission here is simple: we want to unite the Miami fan base under one roof on the best and most comprehensive Miami website ever created.

You won’t hear us utter a single word about Rivals from this point forward. We have great appreciation for the positive things that took place in our two decades at Rivals as well as the majority of the people we met in our time there. Many of them have or will be joining us here at On3.

THE ON3 FACTOR

Our new partnership with On3 really does allow us all to now take our game to a much higher stratosphere and that will be our focus from the first second.

We call On3 a “next-gen network,” and within minutes of being here you will understand why. CaneSport.com will be better in every way starting right now.

The move is allowing us to more than double the size of our staff. This will make us more nimble to produce a Miami-dedicated content product that hopefully will always remain unmatched in our space.

The talent assembled at On3 is also the best that college sports content has ever seen. The best management, the best programmers, the best writers, best recruiting analysts, and best team sites are all being assembled under one roof. The On3 Recruiting team is headed by Chad Simmons, who worked with us at Rivals for many years and simply is the best in the business.

There is nobody here mailing in their jobs. We think you will see that reflected every time that you come onto our site, which we hope will be often.

The depth of network-wide quality content available to everyone around the clock will be staggering.

The tools that our subscribers and readers will find here are the best in the industry and will continue to be because of the vision and determination that On3 has every second of every minute of every day to make sure that is the case.

THE CANESPORT TEAM

Matt Shodell will remain our Managing Editor, responsible for joining me in organizing our coverage on a daily basis. Veteran Editor Jim Martz will continue to provide his great insight and perspective from more than 40 years of covering Miami athletics. Izubee Charles will be joining our staff full-time August 1 in a swing role. We will soon be introducing a new Recruiting writer as well.

CaneSport is also collaborating with Emmy-award winning sports broadcasting icon Roy Firestone, a Miami alum formerly of ESPN and one of the greatest sports interviewers of modern times, to create a series of interview shows with the biggest names in Miami Hurricanes history. It is called UM G.O.A.T.S and the show debuts today with a two-part interview with legendary coach Jimmy Johnson. Many more episodes will follow in the coming days, weeks and years.

Firestone will also contribute periodic essays to CaneSport.com. We are humbled that a talent like Roy is collaborating with us, and we will work with him as well to grow his own channels and allow more eyeballs to appreciate his talents on a daily basis.

We hope these additions help us take our content to a new level. There will be more additions and enhancements in the weeks ahead.

BROADCASTS AND TEAM BREAKDOWNS

On the broadcast front, CaneSport’s mainstay prime time shows, CaneSport Live (Tuesday night at 8) and the Lamar Thomas Show (Wednesday night at 8), will return this fall for new seasons. The U Bet CaneSport Show with Lee Sterling, a weekly look at the Canes from a sports betting standpoint, will also return on Thursdays this fall. CaneSport will continue to produce the Good Morning CaneSport show most days during the week.  We are looking at other programming  additions as well.

TALK TEAM ON THE MESSAGE BOARDS

Gary Ferman’s War Room, The Storm Center and The Lounge will remain as CaneSport.com’s primary message boards.

CONTACT US

If there is anything we are leaving out, please email any suggestions to me at [email protected]. We need the support of the entire Miami fan base to continue to expand and continuously make the site better.

STATE-OF-THE-ART NATIONAL DATABASES AND PROJECTIONS

How else is the new CaneSport.com going to be amped up from our past site?

We will have Miami On3 national channels for news and recruiting which will feature content from more than 50 national writers including recruiting gurus Simmons and Sam Spiegelman, who also formerly worked with CaneSport at Rivals, and young superstar social national recruiting analysts Hayes Fawcett (football) and Joe Tipton (basketball). These guys are literally the best in the business at what they do.

This site now includes the best databases ever created in the industry. On3 db is the ultimate interactive resource for fans, media, coaches and athletes. Powered by industry experts, product engineers that have a passion for sports and machine-learning algorithms, On3 db is a one-stop database for player profiles, scouting data, draft info, athlete education, NIL products and a platform for athletes to interact and control their message.

The On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine is the industry’s first algorithm and machine learning-based product to predict where athletes will attend college. It factors in machine learning, expert predictions, social sentiment, visits, and historical trends.

The On3 Consensus is an equally weighted industry-generated average utilizing all four of the current major recruiting services to rank the best high school athletes in the country. CaneSport.com subscribers now have a plethora of information at their fingertips ranging from an industry comparison of recruiting rankings to the program’s past NFL Draft performance to the prospects for each athlete to benefit from NIL deals and more. I encourage everyone to take a spin around all of our pages and check out these new tools. They really are special.

And CaneSport will also be reuniting at On3 with many of the other biggest fan sites in the industry such as Michigan’s The Wolverine, Notre Dame’s Blue and Gold and more to come in the weeks that follow.

We want all Canes fans to be able to participate as we build our new fan community at a very exciting time for the program.

So take advantage of our unprecedented $1 Site Move Special subscription price for ALL MIAMI FANS that will be good for the first 12 months of every subscription.

We couldn’t be more thrilled to be here and we hope all Miami fans will join us in making this site great.

Again, please email us at [email protected] with any feedback or ideas on how we can be even better.

This is an exciting time for the Miami Hurricanes and we hope we can enhance your fan experience at CaneSport.com each and every day through our new partnership with On3.

That is why we are here.