Derrick Smith leaving Miami, notes from media day

Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast

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🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It's looking more and more like Gurvan Hall and Amari Carter will start at safety for the Hurricanes against Florida following the news late Tuesday night that Derrick Smith is leaving the program. Andrew Ivins and David Lake share their thoughts on the departure while also breaking down Miami's annual media day and discussing what we learned about Jarren Williams, Trevon Hill, Zion Nelson and others. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Through the Smoke a Miami Hurricanes football and recruiting podcast on the 24-7 Sports Network.
0:06.7	I'm Andrew Ivins, joined once again by David Lake.
0:10.2	First, before we get into this, I just want to thank our listeners.
0:13.7	We're still in the initial stages of putting this podcast together.
0:17.5	But the feedback we've received has been pretty positive, both from you and our bosses. So thank you.
0:24.6	All right. So David, let's kind of get right into this thing. Biggest, I guess, news item that has happened. It's been a very newsy week on the Miami beat.
0:33.6	Derek Smith, the safety, who was fighting for one of those starting spots following Sheldrick
0:42.2	Redwine and Joaquin Johnson graduating. He's entering the transfer portal. You're an initial
0:47.7	takeaway on this. Yeah, I mean, it's tough in terms of just overall depth. I think it was a sign, and this was kind of, we thought this is where it was heading, but it's a sign that kind of Gervenhall and Amari Carter had locked down the starter, starting job at safety. Now, I do think Derek Smith was going to rotate in and maybe get some playing time
1:12.5	and some sub packages and the same could be said about Robert Knowles. But yeah, I mean, and look,
1:18.8	honestly, Derek Smith, he stepped his game up during camp and I think he made a push. He made a case
1:24.9	to be a starter. I kind of agree with the decision to go with Amari.
1:31.1	But, you know, so Derek wants to play, obviously, and now he's going to look for an opportunity
1:35.1	to do that, and I can't blame him. To me, it's just a little weird. I don't know why, but when
1:40.8	I was on campus Tuesday, like, I showed up for the media day I saw
1:45.1	him like walking around outside the facilities but then I guess I never really realized he wasn't
1:49.8	made available to the media and then he wasn't at practice and they said it was a personal reason I
1:54.6	I just for my my my thing is the coaches really I felt like hyped him up here they were talking
2:01.9	about how he's been forcing all these turnovers but at the end of the day I
2:05.3	mean I just don't see this as that big of a loss pro football focus graded in
2:09.5	amount as Miami's worst defender last season for guys who played a minimum of at
2:14.1	least a hundred snaps the year before that it was the same thing and it was also
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