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First up this morning in your Miami Hurricanes news?
There was the big Junior Day recruit weekend, of course, and we had you fully covered with that. So check out all those stories from our campus coverage. There were our notebooks from Junior Day and the Battle 7 on 7 tournament and individual updates. Don’t miss what top visitors Breck Kolojay, Jaelen Waters, Javian Mallory and Jeffar Jean-Noel (who got an offer on Junior Day) were saying off their weekend time in Miami. Also check out our story on Miami quarterback Dereon Coleman who became the Hurricanes second QB commit to win Battle in consecutive years.
Another update is with Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas wide receiver Julius Jones who is coming off a stellar sophomore campaign and has caught Miami’s eye. And we catch up with Jonesboro (Ga.) four-star Georgia cornerback commit Jontavius Wyman – he’s found himself interested enough to eye an official visit. There’s an update with Bellflower (Calif.) St. John Bosco 2026 four-star receiver Daniel Odom – he has UM in his top six. There also was an in-home coach visit for Miami with Waukee (Iowa) four-star tight end Evan Jacobson. Find out about that.
To wrap our Junior Day coverage for the day we have updates on a pair of top local prospects Derrek Cooper and J’vari Flowers who are both high on the Canes.
From over the weekend we also, of course, had you fully covered with the huge Xavier Lucas news, with an inside look at what actually happened to make him a Cane and a film analysis of what he brings for UM.
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There’s also our continuing in-depth position by position breakdowns, including all the new portal pieces. We have in-depth looks at the DL, LB and DB positions. How are those spots shaping up for new coordinator Corey Hetherman?
Plus we continue our annual 30 for 30 countdown with the team’s top 30 players who played 30 or more reps. Check out our latest players on the countdown: No. 24 Ahmad Moten, No. 23 Alex Bauman and No. 22 Matthew McCoy.
You also can read the recap of the Miami basketball team’s latest loss, this one to SMU.
And, as always, stay tuned today for any news that may come up.
TODAY’S MIAMI HURRICANES TOP HEADLINES
The CaneSport On3: Miami Hurricanes DL has returning talent, higher level to reach
The CaneSport On3: Miami Hurricanes LB position has questions to answer with one returning starter
The CaneSport On3: Miami Hurricanes DB situation should be much improved with assist from portal
Miami basketball falls behind 60-26 at halftime, loses in blowout at home to SMU
Miami Hurricanes in the mix for local 2027 WR Julius Jones as contenders begin to emerge
Top-300 California receiver maintaining interest in Miami Hurricanes
Miami Hurricanes official visit in the works for 4-star RB off “great” Saturday Junior Day visit
Local WR earns long-awaited Miami Hurricanes offer at Saturday’s Junior Day: “It felt great”
Hurricanes four-star QB commit Dereon Coleman shines en route to lifting Battle Miami 7v7 trophy
Local 4-star CB J’Vari Flowers ‘loving Miami’ Hurricanes
Miami Hurricanes poised to make next cut for local top-25 prospect
Hurricanes four-star QB commit Dereon Coleman shines en route to lifting Battle Miami 7v7 trophy
MESSAGE BOARD POST OF THE DAY
Best UM coordinator hires … Posted by Jcollett
It’s not an exact science that experience will equal success, nor that inexperience will result in failure.
Best hires since Butch:
Greg Schiano: advarkas’ “monkey boy” came with no experience calling a defense as a NFL DB coach after Butch fired Bill Miller. He immediately made an impact and brought lots of confusion to offenses with his 3rd down “junk” blitzed. Some people said that he would have been the head coach at UM if he would not have left for Rutgers days before Butch went to Cleveland. Paul Dee tried to hire him at UM when Coker “clappy” was canned but according to Gary Ferman he demanded too much. The Rutgers billboards continued to be shown in south Florida.
Rob Chudzinski: good hire by Coker but he ended up leaving for the NFL
Randy Shannon: he was a good hire for what the U wanted to spend and the guys played hard, although he was exposed later with his vanilla style as “the Onion”
Bill Young: Randy made a good hire as he was an experienced DC but he stayed only a year
Jedd Fisch: good hire by Golden. Never been an OC before he came but he quickly rose in the coaching ranks and was a good play caller immediately.
Manny Diaz: definitely an upgrade over Mark Donofrio
Rhett Lashlee: great hire by Manny
That’s really it since 2000 which is alarming.
It takes production on the field and the right mesh with the players and the staff to be successful. The “stare” of a coach, him coming across as an alpha in an interview, talking about being multiple and “players over plays ” according to Al Golden, “always scoring” according to Patrick Nixed, or “having an NFL playbook” according to Mark Whipped Whipple don’t mean nothing.
Talk is cheap. Time to produce on the field.
MIAMI HURRICANES QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Coming back to Miami is always great. Some of the takeaways – sitting down again with coach Cristobal, coach Mirabal. … I love this place. It’s great that it’s three-and-a-half hours away from me. Honestly, coach Cristobal and coach Mirabal, what they’ve done, their resume, how they teach the game of football – they teach it the right way. And I feel the culture in this building is really good and they are going to keep on building that culture and keep on developing players into NFL caliber players.”
4-star IOL target Breck Kolojay, off his miami Junior Day visit this weekend
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