Happy July 4th! Previewing commitments and discussing our 2022 Miami mock class

Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Happy July 4th! On the latest edition of 'Through The Smoke," Gaby Urrutia and David Lake discuss the way the Miami Hurricanes dominated name, image, and likeness, preview some upcoming July 4th commitments, and project what the 2022 class will look like. On July 1st, NCAA athletes could officially be compensated on their name, image, and likeness. The Miami football program, and specifically quarterback D'Eriq King, was ready as soon as the clock struck midnight. What does NIL mean for the Miami football program? Will it help the Hurricanes more than other programs around the country? Lake and Urrutia share their thoughts. On July 4th, three UM targets are planning to announce their college decisions. Urrutia breaks it all down here. In the second half of the podcast, Urrutia shares his latest 2022 mock recruiting class. You don't want to miss this podcast! 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 another edition of Through the Smoke, a holiday weekend edition.
0:20.5	Happy July 4th weekend to everyone. Hopefully everyone
0:23.7	can enjoy the time with family, friends, relax in the sunshine, whatever it is you're
0:29.9	going to be doing, having some barbecue, having a cookout. Hopefully everyone enjoys the time.
0:36.9	We are recording this on Friday afternoon, heading into the weekend, because there's
0:41.8	been plenty of news to discuss.
0:44.1	There is plenty of news to preview in terms of commitments coming up on July 4th.
0:51.0	And we also just want to discuss kind of our mock class ideas, how we view the class kind of shaping up here in early July.
1:02.9	So let's get into it, Gabby.
1:05.5	Let's start with, I guess, the newsiest thing that has happened this week.
1:10.0	And that is the name, image, and likeness
1:13.7	era is here. College football players, college athletes in general can now make money off of their
1:21.4	own name, image, and likenesses, which is a great thing that athletes can finally do that.
1:29.0	And Miami was ready.
1:30.2	Miami was ready as a program.
1:32.2	They clearly had their guys educated on everything.
1:35.7	And specifically D. Eric King, quarterback D.R. King was ready.
1:39.7	He and Bubba Bolden kind of earned the first big money NIL deals out there, you know,
1:49.6	just after midnight on July 1st.
1:52.3	It was kind of announced the College Hunks hauling junk company who is owned by, I guess,
1:58.8	former Hurricane Omar Solomon.
2:03.6	Both those guys, Deerick and Bubba Bolden, each got $20,000 for their endorsement deal with college hunks hauling junk.
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