What's up everybody? Welcome back to Through the Smoke, a Miami Hurricanes podcast here on the 24-7 Sports Network. I'm Andrew Ivins. That's David Lake. We are here to break down the early signing period for Miami. Hurricanes announced 18 signes on Wednesday.

As of this recording, which is early Thursday afternoon,

they still hold the nation's number 18 ranked recruiting class according to the 24-7 sports composite team rankings.

So they shuffled, what is that, two or three spots back in the rankings.

Yeah.

They started it off. So we'll get into all that here on on this episode of the podcast kind of just going to free flow talk about

how things went what's next um what manny dyes said on wednesday what some of the assistant

coaches said on wednesday and we'll kind of go from there.

So, David, how are you doing?

Doing well.

You know, I was kind of manning the website during the day while you and Chris were out, you know,

working boots on the ground at the various spots.

So I was just flipping guys as soon as those NLIs were announced,

I was just flipping those articles on the website

and trying to follow along with what was going on with Jaden Francois.

So maybe we should start there with the info maybe you've gathered

on what happened with Jaden and

his delayed announcement. It was what delayed, I think, like an hour, honestly. He got on the

phone with someone. He obviously became emotional and he had to talk about some things in the hallway of the gymnasium

with his family after he took a phone call so obviously jaden ended up committing to Nebraska

but maybe what have you learned, you know, 24 hours after all this transpired?

What have you learned from Miami's perspective?

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