Greg Rousseau opts out of 2020 season
Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast
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4.8 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Miami's star defensive end is electing to sit out this season and instead start preparations for the NFL Draft. Andrew Ivins and David Lake take a look at what that means. The two share who the Hurricanes will need to lean on and explain why it might not be time to panic just yet. Ivins and Lake also breakdown UM's schedule after the ACC finalized the dates of games. Is Louisville a potential trap game?
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to Through the Smoke, a Miami Hurricanes podcast here on the 24-7 Sports Network. |
| 0:21.9 | Andrew Evans, joined, as always, by David Lake. |
| 0:25.2 | This is like the fourth or fifth podcast episode we've done this week. |
| 0:29.2 | But some big news happened on Thursday. |
| 0:33.0 | You all know that Miami landed a five-star defensive tackle and Leonard Taylor. |
| 0:39.0 | But the Hurricanes also got word that star defensive in. Greg Russo is going to opt out of the 2020 season. |
| 0:46.3 | So we're going to get into that. Also going to talk about the schedule now that we have some |
| 0:50.6 | finalized dates. Before we get into that, David, how you doing, man? |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, doing good. |
| 0:57.5 | The seasons here. |
| 0:59.1 | We're recording this Friday afternoon. |
| 1:01.7 | Miami is set to hold their first practice of camp tonight, Friday night. |
| 1:07.1 | So yeah, you're right. I feel like we have done a ton of podcasts this week. Not a bad thing. |
| 1:15.6 | I love talking Miami Hurricanes football, especially these days. It's nice to have football around the corner. |
| 1:23.6 | And yeah, let's get into it. |
| 1:26.6 | So Greg Russo, he's going pro, man. Are you surprised? I mean, |
| 1:33.6 | I guess we talked about this on one of these episodes, how he was an opt-out candidate. |
| 1:40.6 | You know, I think Miami just kind of me, the thought or the feeling i got from some of the people |
| 1:48.4 | i talk with is they thought he was going to play uh and i guess if you were on the zoom call with manny |
| 1:55.2 | diaz on thursday you kind of got that impression too just Just kind of how that played out. |
| 2:02.8 | Yeah, so that was interesting. |
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