Orange Bowl Boys: A Miami Hurricanes Podcast

We kick off Chapter 131 by getting into a bunch of audio from Day 1 of Miami Hurricanes camp - including Cam Ward calling some guys out for giving in to the heat, and how the defense won the first day. Plus we are loving what Cam has to say about Sam Brown and Damien Martinez as strong additions to the offense. We're also joined by an OBB favorite, Roddy Jones from the ACC Network, who jokes a...

We come out straight Bange-in this week after a week off and the A.I. almost got us cancelled. Ro shares a story about a teenage girl admitting she's "catch a charge" to be with his son, Scoop has picked up glass blowing, and Toast chose to do a whole lot of nothing with his time off. We also discuss the NCAA lawsuits being settled, eliminating walk-ons on college campuses, and how bas...

The Orange Bowl Boys are taking a week off... so of course we had their AI counterparts fill in this week! It's a short show, but we cover the release of EA College Football 25, the COPA America Finals trashing Hard Rock Stadium, the amazingly hot Hollywood officer that's gone viral this week... and somehow manage to avoid the discussion about Donald Trump. They even roll out a round of Fi...

We have SO much Canes content on the plate this week, and we start with rumors that both FSU and Clemson have been sent packing by both the Big10 and the SEC. And with that rumor comes another that the Big 12 is looking to poach up to six schools from the ACC and we break down some of the more intriguing matchups from that possibility. And just how big can a conference get in all this realignment?...

We open the show with Roman's son playing his last little league game, with him crying his eyes out in front of his boy, and how Scoop gets emotional around his kids and their sports also. Which somehow spins into a conversation about conference allegiances outside of your team. Plus as we dive into our Hurricanes Football talk for the week, Toast is starting to get nervous as the bar continue...

We are all high on the Florida Panthers winning the Stanley Cup in an epic Game 7, everyone reflects on their favorite moments from the night and the subsequent morning after at the Elbo Room! Plus this year's Blue Chip report is out and of course we bait Roman into talking about Miami's ranking... and how it ultimately doesn't matter. And we have to pile on Oklahoma State sideline rep...

It's an early edition of the show as the boys get ready for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals, in hopes that the Panthers bring home the Stanley Cup. Roman also shares a classic Little League story about an umpire throwing an entire family out of a game! And Toast shares his struggle with AirBNB and having to pitch himself to a renter in Tennessee in order to stay there. As we finally pull the...

We open the show this week with a new University President at Miami, as Julio Frenk moves on to UCLA and Joe Echevarria stepping in as interim President, which is a great thing for the football program! But of course it's Toast that plays devil's advocate, as he's afraid a change in leadership could force the athletic program to take a step back.  We also address the unnamed ACC coach...

Roman's having back problems, Toast is working a lot, and Scoop is all over the place as we get things rolling this week. And the most important question of the night kicks off with the question about whether we're buying the preseason rankings... and sure enough everyone continues to fall in on different sides of the narrative. Somehow we get into a full-on discussion about the Cola wars,...

Facial hair and Brazilian waxes open up this week's show for some reason, but we quickly transition to the "all in" proposition for the Canes as we get into Summer. Everyone has strong feelings about the defensive line, pointing out that seasons we felt confident were years when the defense was relentless. Toast hopes this "all in" mentality translates to the first year of a de...

More big signings have everyone drinking on a weeknight, as we talk about the big defensive end that Mario just landed in the portal... and the pressure continues to mount. Plus the Jaden Rashada lawsuit gives us the opportunity to laugh at the Florida Gators as he sues UF and Billy Napier over an unpaid NIL deal, even though the Miami side of the story is a little ugly in its own right. There&#39...

The boys are back and we immediately dive into Mario's ever-growing expectations as the roster continues to grow. But with such big expectations, we need more than just a roster that looks good on paper, it needs to work on the field. And with a 3:30 kick in the season opener at Florida, no one wants to sit in the boiling hot sun in the middle of the day in Gainesville. Roman also overcame a h...

We open the show with the unusual trio of Scoop's new 70's glasses, Toast's new toe fungus and the show's first samping of Night Owl cookies. Then we get into the Canes in the 2024 NFL Draft, and how the list of undrafted signees was longer than the list of guys that went in the formal rounds. And we try to figure out why certain guys went in the Draft and why others fell off.  Plu...

Everyone checks in for this week's show, with Ro fresh back from a big volleyball tournament trip in Philadelphia, and Scoop and Ro's impromptu hang session at the Fire Station while Ro was on shift. And of course we dive into the portal chaos and just how hard it is to keep track of everything that's happening in the offseason. Plus as you lose guys to the portal you also get to whale...

We open the show with everyone's reaction to the Spring Game, and to no one's surprise everyone was impressed with the play of Cam Ward. The boys are also surprised that the game wasn't as vanilla as we've seen in past years. And everyone has praise for Jacurri Brown as he hits the transfer portal after the game, even though he may have been the best of the backups. Now that we&#39...

It's Spring Game week so everyone takes a look at what they hope to see from different position groups - as Ro covers QBs and linebackers, Toast talks O-Line and safety ,  and Scoop wants to see the running backs and corners. Plus we try to figure out how a guy like Oregon State's Damien Martinez could fit in with the current RB room. And we're anxious to see Emory and Jacurri legitima...

Lots of talk from Spring practice as Scoop dove into the Mario press conference, with some observations on the battle for QB2 and the improvement in the tight end usage. And as the portal opens we are curious if we're going to see a QB transfer out if they are too low on the depth chart, and we still think Miami will go hunting again for a splash wide receiver and maybe now a running back. Rom...

We open this week with talk of booze, and Dan Radakovich's comments about UM loving the ACC, which had the fan base divided this week. And with all this talk of conference realignment has the OBBs in agreement that staying in the ACC is a very smart move for Miami. And Scoop has a few offensive players from Spring practice  Plus the "Wheel of Topics" is on full tilt this week, with so...

All the boys are cooked after a crazy week, and somehow Toast managed to piss off a whole new group of college basketball fans when he disputed if Caitlyn Clark was really the GOAT of women's basketball. And we take a rare trip to Greentree during the off season as we reflect on Henry Parrish leaving the U, as we now have to take a good look at the running back room. We also throw a little lov...

We open the show with Scoop back in the house, and Toast has to immediately address the Twitter feud that erupted this week between him and some Canes fans over the state of the basketball program. It's another epic Toast rant and he shuts down the narrative about him being a "casual" fan. And Scoop jokes about being on vacation last week while Toast set the world on fire. There are al...

With Spring practice upon us, we're joined by David Lake from 24/7 Sports to talk all things Canes as the guys start to hit the field. David is already drinking the Cam Ward Kool-Aid even though they're not in pads yet, he's just excited with the things he's seeing early on. We're even seeing some pop already at wide receiver as we open things up, and everyone remains positive...

So how many signing days do we need? We open the show just overloaded with great topics this week, and start off with trying to figure out why we'd need another signing day when one of the two we already have is all but meaningless. But by moving up signing windows, we wonder how long until HS players begin to opt out for signing early. And the wheel of topics takes over as we bounce around fr...

Basketball and BBQ start the show this week, as we get into the Canes poor performance on the court and Ro's trip to Kansas City. Toast experimented with the show Scoop recommended, Naked Attraction, and decided to torture the rest of the show with it.  We also fall quickly back into college football as NCAA '25 starts to include more school songs and traditions, now that NIL runs the foot...

We are barely into the offseason and we're already getting early season rankings that have the Canes anywhere from 12 to 25 - even though we continue to end the season unranked. Even Cam is getting some Heisman buzz before he's even taken a snap in a Miami uniform. Plus we had some shots fired on Twitter this week between Mario and Brett Bielima, where Mario had a mic drop response after B...

As a prime example of how NIL and the portal have rendered Signing Day meaningless, we completely forgot it was upon us when it used to be a national holiday for the OBB's. Scoop also wants to know what's preventing college football from pulling the plug on NIL because of how much it's changed/ruined college football. While collective bargaining appears to be the best way to a workable...