Reviewing the first day of the early signing period and Miami is far from done

Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast

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🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In the latest edition of Through the Smoke, we discuss the first day of the early signing period.

InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their thoughts on the eight players that signed with Miami on Wednesday, discuss the twists and turns on early signing day, and have a big picture discussion on NIL and recruiting.

In the second half of the show, Lake and Urrutia highlight some of the names to know moving forward and Mario Cristobal looks to build out his first class at UM.

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0:54.5	Okay. 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 Routia.
1:02.1	Gabby, you survived your first early signing period that you had to handle by yourself, right?
1:11.6	You were on staff last year, but we had Andrew Ivan's helping on the site as well last year.
1:17.6	This was your first class, first, and it's not over, but first early signing period as the lead dog.
1:23.6	What'd you think?
1:25.6	It was a grind man, but I really love this stuff and I was happy to do it.
1:32.0	And, you know, it was exciting, you know, just kind of following these guys around all year and, you know, just really sort of, you know, having that focus on who Miami's getting, especially down this last stretch where it got just more interesting with Mario Cristobal and having to, you know, sort of knowing they had a shot at a Nigely Kelly
1:48.4	and, you know, closing on Wesley Besant and, you know, even like a Jaden Harris, a guy that, you know,
1:54.0	maybe surprised some fans. I think it's a, I think it was, it was definitely an exciting you know last few weeks of the cycle and uh you know it was
2:01.2	cool sort of you know being able to handle it and and run with it man it was a it was a great opportunity
2:05.8	and it was fun it is it's it's a fun day not only for fans to to see who officially signs with
2:14.0	their favorite teams but it's also just a big day for these young men, right?
2:19.6	It's if you ever, I know you went to Nigelik Kelly yesterday, but anyone who ever has an
2:26.0	opportunity to go to these signing day ceremonies, it's always a very emotional deal, right?
2:35.2	These guys get to pursue a free education and, you know, take the next step in their pursuit of trying to chase the dream of playing the game of football professionally, right?
2:49.7	So it's always a cool day to see the
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