Welcome back to another edition of Through the Smoke, a Miami Hurricanes football and recruiting podcast here on the 24-7 Sports Network, David Lake, joined as always

by Gabby Urruthia.

This will be our one podcast here on this bye week.

Miami is on a bye to rest up, recover, hopefully fixed and tweak some things on defense.

This podcast, Gabby, I mainly want to talk about talent acquisition. I, I, hopefully fixed and tweak some things on defense.

This podcast, Gabby, I mainly want to talk about talent acquisition.

I don't have much of an appetite for, you know, dissecting, getting in the weeds on the defense.

I think we've kind of shared our ideas there enough.

It's just up to Lance Guidry and Miami to figure out and find some answers and get the most out of that group, whatever that means. You know, I do think this defense can

improve. How much can it improve, I think, is a fair conversation. How much does it need to improve,

I think is a fair conversation. It does need to

improve to complement this offense better. And we'll see how that looks coming out of the biweek.

But I want to focus on talent acquisition, Gabby, with the early signing period coming up,

that's, we're really three weeks away, correct?

Do I have the math right on that?

Three weeks away.

Exactly three weeks away.

From early signing period, which is Wednesday through Friday.

And then the Wednesday after that, or is it, yeah, it's the Wednesday after, right,

is the transfer portal opening?

It happens the next week. I don't know the exact day, but it happens the next week.

So all this is coming to a head. And, you know, we get, during the season, we get so in the weeds with the current team, what we're seeing on the field, and rightfully so.

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