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 Urutia.

We're here to talk, Transfer Portal, because it is open, opened on Monday, and it is

chaos in a fun way, because players are on the the move trying to learn who players are and every

team around the country has hope as they look to fill whatever their needs are with proven

commodities in the portal so we'll dive into that here in a little bit.

On the front side, front end of this podcast, of course,

what to highlight Miami's Collective, Cain's Connection.

You know, I think coming out of signing day,

there was a lot of discussion amongst the fan base about, oh, is Miami's collective falling

off? Is that the reason why Miami didn't sign a top 10 class? My response to that would be an

emphatic no. Miami's collective is still one of the best in the country. Miami is resourced in a strong way, but you do have to keep investing into the program.

And it's like any business, you over year, you got to invest more.

So look, if you want to help out on that grassroots level of the program, go to canesconnection.com and go be a member at one of

the various tiers that you can join over there. All right. Gabby, before we dive into

Transfer Portal talk, just want to touch on like the current events that have happened since, you know, our last podcast.

And essentially that, you know, from a Miami hurricane's perspective, they did not make the

college football playoff, which, you know, look, we think Miami had a strong case to be

included in the playoff.

That was pretty much wiped out when Clemson beat SMU. Again, my frustration

lies there that Miami could not get to that game against SMU because I think Miami would

have beat SMU as well. But anyways, Miami did not make the college football playoff.

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