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, joined as always by David Lake. Got a bit of an interesting, I guess, podcast coming up today. We're going to talk a little team stuff, get into some recruiting, but more importantly, we are

answering questions for our VIP subscribers at Inside theU.com. But before we get into that, David,

how you doing on this fine? I was going to say Thursday, but it's actually Friday.

Yeah, doing well. We are, what,

about a week away from the start of spring football. So I'm ready for it. I'm rested up. I am

bored with the dead period going on. So I'm ready to get back to work and start seeing how they look on the on the practice field

in about a week how are you doing same uh the debt period has made this month i feel like we've said

this the past three podcasts but just pretty uh pretty dead i mean there's not much going on there's

some recruiting events here and there and thankfully miami's one of these schools that's starting spring practice a little early.

I've seen some spring practice schedules circulate.

And they're not even until late March.

So glad that Miami's going to be one of the first ones out there.

Just because I think there's a ton of excitement around the team.

You got a new offensive coordinator, a new quarterback, some other key additions.

It should be interesting.

Definitely.

Let's jump into it.

What do you want to start with first for the podcast?

Let's talk about something that kind of came across my desk here

a few days ago. From what I'm hearing, it sounds like Miami's going to be making at least one

position change this spring, and that is safety, Kiantra Smith. I think from what i've heard miami's going to try him out at

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