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, not joined by David Lake today. I'm actually joined by the new guy here at Inside the U, Gabby Yurudia. Gabby, I hope I said that right. I just pronounced it a few times in my head.

How you doing, man?

I'm doing good.

No, you killed it, man.

You killed it with a pronouncing.

Most people get it, get it much worse the first time.

So I thought you did pretty well there.

So Gabby is a new, I guess what is your title?

Staff Rider here, 424-7 sports.

He is going to cover the Miami Hurricanes moving forward, focusing primarily on the recruiting.

But Gabby, I know you have been in this industry, this field for a little bit.

You were doing some work at State of the U.

So why don't you kind of give us

just a little introduction and kind of open open the door and tell us about yourself yeah so um

I started with I started with State of the U I would say roughly two years ago a little over two years

ago and the beginning I was just doing a lot of just, like, blogging and stuff like that.

Like, just, like, kind of, like, one article a week just to kind of, just as kind of, like, a platform to just, you know, just say what I wanted to say about, about you on football managing editor over there, he kind of gave everyone an opportunity to go into the press box.

So I got a little bit of that experience. And it was something that I enjoyed greatly.

Like I kind of started realizing like, you know, this is something that I really want to pursue.

This is something that I want to see if I can take a step further more than just, you know, blogging a couple times a week.

So when spring practice rolled around the following year before last season, so the 2019 season, I reached out to Cam and I was just like, hey man, like if it's possible, like I would like to like to like to be there for spring practice.

Like I didn't really know what that meant.

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