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 Urruthia.

And in this podcast, Gabby, I want to do kind of a state-of-the-union style of podcast where after a busy month of June, busy month of official visits, unofficial visits, camps, etc.

And frankly, we're at the halfway point of this 2024 recruiting cycle.

It's now a dead period here in June. It goes dead. I believe today.

We're recording this Tuesday afternoon. The 27th until the last week of July, it opens up for one more

week. Then it goes dead again for August with teams focusing on fall

camp. So I wanted to provide just a snapshot of kind of where things are with Miami's recruiting

class position by position, kind of where we think things might be going, where maybe Miami is stock

up for some guys, where, you know, Miami might be

trending a little down for some guys. So yeah, I think it'll be a valuable podcast in terms

of a snapshot of where things stand here. So let's start here. Miami currently has 13 commits in this 2024 class.

They own the number 28 overall class in the country.

They hosted 45 official visitors during the month of June.

And they are looking to make big moves here coming off this official visit season.

They hosted six composite five-star players.

I think more importantly, in addition to that, not in addition, but part of that,

they hosted 15 top 100 players during the month

of June. So they do have a lot of firepower if they can close on some of those key targets that

are highly rated players. They have plenty of firepower to make a big jump into that top 10 where they want to

be. And who knows if they have a strong, strong season, potentially a top five class. But I want to go,

let's just open up the discussion here before we dive into position by position, Gabby.

...