Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast

It is the Monday before the Early Signing Period and there is plenty to discuss surrounding the Miami Hurricanes talent acquisition efforts. InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia dive into all the relevant topics.  Miami is coming off an official visit in which they played host to plenty of key transfer targets. Urrutia shares where Miami stands for those targets.  The Hurricanes are also looki...

The Miami Hurricanes landed four-star American Heritage Plantation running back Mark Fletcher. Fletcher (6-1, 225) is the top running back prospect out of South Florida for the 2023 cycle. What type of player is UM landing and what does this addition mean for the Hurricanes’ recruiting efforts? Enjoy the pod as InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia touch on all the relevant topics.

The Miami Hurricanes football program stays hot on the recruiting trail! On Thursday afternoon, UM picked up a commitment from five-star offensive tackle Samson Okunlola.  In this instant reaction podcast, InsideTheU's David Lake and Gaby Urrutia discuss what this commitment means for the UM football program. Enjoy the podcast!

The Miami Hurricanes picked up a monster commitment from four-star defensive lineman Rueben Bain.  InsideTheU's David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their quick takeaways from this key addition to Miami's 2023 recruiting class.  Enjoy the podcast.

It is closing time for the Miami Hurricanes football program. Miami is looking to put the finishing touches on its 2023 recruiting class with some big time targets planning to announce this week.  Learn everything you need to know about those recruiting efforts going into this week.  The Hurricanes are also hosting transfer portal targets as UM looks to immediately bolster the depth and talent wit...

Talent acquisition season is fully upon us in college football. The NCAA Transfer Portal officially opened on Monday, December 5th. Who are some players to know that are already in the portal on day one? InsideTheU's David Lake and Gaby Urrutia break it all down. We also discuss some recent commitments at key positions of need at the high school level. Enjoy the pod.

Recruiting season is here! The Miami Hurricanes flipped four-star defensive end Collins Acheampong from his Michigan commitment.  InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia discuss this big commitment.

In this quick edition of Through The Smoke, InsideTheU’s Gaby Urrutia and David Lake touch on talent acquisition.  The 2022 football season is over for the Miami Hurricanes, but talent acquisition season is about to get started.  The recruiting contact period begins this Friday and the Hurricanes have a lot of work to do via the transfer portal and high school recruiting.  Check out the latest pod...

Miami's 2022 season came to a sad end on Saturday night with a blowout loss to Pittsburgh on Saturday night. InsideTheU's David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their thoughts following the game. 

Happy Thanksgiving! In this episode of Through The Smoke, InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia discuss two of the hot topics going Ito the offseason: the transfer portal and Miami’s coordinator situation.  Urrutia starts the podcast by discussing the transfer portal and how it is going to be an important asset in Mario Cristobal’s quest to flip the roster.  In the second half of the episode, L...

The Miami Hurricanes lost in convincing fashion to Clemson on Saturday night, 40-10. UM showed some fight in the second half, but Clemson was the much better team on the day. Check out the InsideTheU instant reaction podcast from the game for our takeaways below.

The Miami Hurricanes will travel to South Carolina this week to take on ACC power Clemson.  In this latest edition of Through the Smoke, InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their thoughts on the Tigers and how Miami matches up.  We also touch on the latest recruiting developments in this podcast.  Enjoy the show. 

The Miami Hurricanes secured a 35-14 win at Georgia Tech on Saturday.  With the win, UM moves to 5-5 on the season as they need one more game to secure bowl eligibility.  In this podcast, InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their instant reactions to the game.  Enjoy the podcast. 

In the latest episode of Through The Smoke, we preview the Georgia Tech game and discuss recruiting.  On the front end of the podcast, InsideTheU’s Gaby Urrutia dishes everything you need to know as the Hurricanes look to put an exclamation point on the 2023 recruiting class.  In the second half of the pod, David Lake and Urrutia share their thoughts on the Georgia Tech match-up.  Enjoy the pod. 

The Miami-FSU game was loaded with plenty of big time recruits on Saturday night.  The Hurricanes played host to ten five-star prospects across the 2023 and 2024 recruiting cycles.  InsideTheU’s Gaby Urrutia shares everything you need to know coming out of the game from a recruiting perspective.  Enjoy the show. 

Miami lost to Florida State on Saturday night, 45-3.  InsideTheU's David Lake shares his thoughts from this game and look toward the future.

The FSU game is here.  The Miami Hurricanes will take on their biggest rival on Saturday evening at Hard Rock Stadium. Florida State is considered a strong favorite going into the game as UM looks to pull off an upset win at home.  What is this 2022 FSU team all about? Who are the key players to know? How does Miami match up against the Seminoles? How does UM have to try and go win this game? Insi...

The month of November is here and with the early signing period fast approaching, InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia want to set the stage for an important stretch on the recruiting trail for the 2023 cycle.  It’s closing time.  The early signing period is seven weeks away, running from December 21-23.  Where do things stand for Miami with the commits? Who are the top remaining targets at ea...

It wasn’t pretty, but Miami found a way to beat Virginia in four overtimes on Saturday afternoon, 14-12. What does this mean win for Miami? Who played well? Where do the improvements need to come?  Check out the instant reaction podcast from InsideTheU’s David Lake.  Enjoy the podcast.

The Miami Hurricanes pulled off a surprising commitment on the recruiting trail on Thursday evening with the addition of five-star cornerback Cormani McClain.  In this latest edition of Through The Smoke, Andrew Ivins is joined by David Lake to discuss what the commitment means for Miami, what type of player UM is adding in McClain, and shares some big picture thoughts on Miami’s recruiting effort...

It is time to preview the Miami vs. Virginia game! The Hurricanes will travel to Virginia and look to get back on track against the Cavaliers with a game that is kicking off at 12:30 p.m. EST.  Where does Miami have the edge? What are the strengths and weaknesses of Virginia? What does quarterback Jake Garcia need to show in the game? InsideTheU’s David Lake hits on all the primary talking points....

In this latest solo podcast, InsideTheU’s David Lake recaps the Duke game and has a big picture discussion on what needs to change moving forward.  After rewatching the Duke game, what are the main takeaways and where can the Hurricanes get better?  Where should we point the blame of this poor 2022 season? Is it the coaches? Is it the players? Is it other issues? Check out the podcast below. 

That just happened… The Miami Hurricanes football program lost to Duke, 45-21, at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday afternoon with UM turning the ball over eight times.  Where do we go from here? InsideTheU’s David Lake shares his instant reaction takes from the game.  Check out the podcast.

It is time to preview the Duke game.  The Miami Hurricanes will host the Blue Devils at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday in a 12:30 p.m. kickoff. The game will be televised on a regional sports channel, check your local listings.  Duke (4-3) is much improved year over year. The Blue Devils have already surpassed their win total for the 2021 season under Mike Elko. What is the strength of this Duke te...

In the latest edition of Through The Smoke, we give a final review of the Virginia Tech game and share our thoughts on where things stand at the midway point of the season.  Miami showed plenty of positives and plenty to clean up during Saturday’s 20-14 win on Saturday. What did we like? What did we not like? David Lake shares his thoughts in this solo podcast.  Lake also shares some quick thought...