Through the Smoke: A Miami Hurricanes football podcast

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The Miami Hurricanes will travel to take on their biggest rival, Florida State, this week in Tallahassee. UM enters the game riding a three game winning streak and a slight favorite over the Seminoles, who have lost two straight games. What does Miami need to do to win the game? Can the Hurricanes win by a double digit margin? What concerns us about this Florida State team? Where does UM have the...

FSU Hate Week is here.  The Miami Hurricanes will travel to Tallahassee to take on their biggest rival, Florida State on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and the game will be televised on ESPN.  In this podcast, we share our thoughts after rewatching the Georgia Tech game. What did we like? What are some areas that need to be cleaned up? We share our thoughts here. We then provide a fi...

The Miami Hurricanes have now won three straight games after a 33-30 win over Georgia Tech.  UM dug themselves in a hole with early turnovers in the game, but the better team prevailed at the end of the day with the Hurricanes earning the victory in the fourth quarter.  What was the difference in the game? What did we like? We did we not like?  InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their...

Can the Miami Hurricanes keep the god vibes rolling this week against Georgia Tech? Or will UM play down to their competition with a game that will kickoff at 12:30 p.m. and allow the Yellow Jackets to have a puncher’s chance at pulling out a win.  InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their thoughts going into this week’s UM game.  Who are the key players to know on Georgia Tech? What wo...

The Miami Hurricanes will look to keep their recent run of success going this week while hosting Georgia Tech at Hard Rock Stadium.  Kickoff is slated for 12:30 p.m. and the game will be televised locally on Bally Sports.  In the latest edition of Through The Smoke, InsideTheU.com 's Gaby Urrutia and David Lake share their thoughts from the win over Pittsburgh after rewatching the game.  What stoo...

The Miami Hurricanes have earned two straight victories over ranked opponents with a 38-34 win over No. 17 Pittsburgh. InsideTheU's David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their quick thoughts from the game.

The Miami Hurricanes football program is looking to navigate a tough time in which results are not being delivered on the field in 2021 and the mediocrity has existed for close to 17 years.  Who are the key decision makers to know with the future of the football program? Where do things stand with Manny Diaz? Blake James? The Board of Trustees?  Could Miami go out and get a proven coach? What woul...

Miami is back to work after a 31-30 win over NC State on Saturday.  In the latest episode of  Through The Smoke , David Lake and Gaby Urrutia discuss everything you need to know surrounding the Miami Hurricanes football program.  We start the podcast by sharing our thoughts on the win over NC State after rewatching the game. Just how special was Tyler Van Dyke’s performance? Who stood out on defen...

The Miami Hurricanes football program earned a 31-30 win over No. 18 North Carolina State at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday night. Miami played their most complete game of the season and beat a ranked team.  What do we make of the performance? What did Tyler Van Dyke prove in the game? Is the defense turning the corner? Is the team starting to find an identity.  InsideTheU.com 's David Lake and Gab...

In the latest episode of Through The Smoke , InsideTheU.com 's David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their thoughts on a pivotal game against NC State.  What is NC State’s identity? How are the Wolfpack different from last season, when the Hurricanes won a dramatic 44-41 game in Raleigh, North Carolina? Who needs to step up for Miami?  What needs to happen for Miami to win this game?  Lake and Urrutia...

In the latest edition of T hrough The Smoke , we dig into what is going on with the Miami Hurricanes football program and recruiting.  InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia break it all down.  After re-watching the 45-42 loss to North Carolina, what did we notice that we liked and what we didn’t like?  What is going on with recruiting right now? Urrutia shares the latest with Miami looking to m...

The Miami Hurricanes lost to North Carolina 45-42 on Saturday in what was another disappointing result.  UM is now winless against Power Five opponents and ACC opponents in 2021 and at the midway point of the season have a 2-4 record.  What do we make of the game? InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share all their thoughts on this instant reaction podcast following the game.  What do we make...

The Miami Hurricanes have a chance to start the process of getting their season back on track this week with a road trip against Coastal Division foe North Carolina.  InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia break down everything you need to know going into this match-up.  Who are the key players to know on North Carolina? How does Miami match-up against the Tar Heels? What are the keys to victory...

In the latest edition of Through The Smoke, InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia jump into the newsworthy topics coming out of the bye week.  Quarterback D’Eriq King is officially done for the season now that he is having surgery on his shoulder. Lake and Urrutia share their thoughts on King’s time at Miami and what it means for the Hurricanes moving forward.  Miami also has plenty of other in...

In this bye week edition of Through The Smoke , we touch on a number of topics surrounding the Miami Hurricanes football program.  InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share some of their takeaways from the 30-28 loss to Virginia after rewatching the game. What impressed us from the game and what do we still have concerns about moving forward?  Urrutia then shares the latest with UM’s recruiti...

That one hurt.  The Miami Hurricanes lost to Virginia, 30-28, on Thursday night at Hard Rock Stadium.  The Cavaliers outplayed UM for most of the game, but the Hurricanes kept fighting and had a chance to win with time expiring.  Freshman kicker Andy Borregales uncharacteristically banged a potential game winning field goal off the upright with time expiring.  What do we make of Miami’s performanc...

Miami starts ACC play on Thursday night with the Hurricanes hosting Coastal Division foe Virginia in an important game for this 2021 season.  UM has not started this 2021 season the way they had hoped, but the ACC goals, in terms of winning the Coastal Division, is still in front of them.  Achieving that goal starts on Thursday night against the Cavaliers.  In the latest edition of Through The Smo...

Things got weird during Monday’s weekly press conference with Miami coach Manny Diaz.  Diaz started the press conference by firing back at ESPN’s discussion on College GameDay that UM doesn’t care about football and the narrative that UM lacks the resources to be great at football.  InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their thoughts on all the points Diaz made during is weekly press con...

The Miami Hurricanes cruised to a comfortable 69-0 win over FCS opponent Central Connecticut State on Saturday afternoon.  CCSU was certainly an overmatched opponent, but there was plenty to take away from the game.  The main takeaway? The freshmen had an opportunity to show what they can do and they made plays.  Freshman quarterbacks Tyler Van Dyke and Jake Garcia were both steady with distributi...

The Miami Hurricanes will take on FCS opponent Central Connecticut State this week.  Instead of breaking down what should be a comfortable win for the Hurricanes, we turn the discussion to recruiting and talk big picture as we break down where things might have gone wrong in the Manny Diaz era and what traits matter most in the head coach at UM. Should Miami start looking at play ‘B’ type of recru...

In the latest episode of Through The Smoke, we discuss our thoughts on the Michigan State game and share our big picture thoughts on the program.  What was the issue against the Spartans? At what point did we feel like Miami lost control of the game? What changes can be made moving forward? Does Miami have answers on offense or defense? InsideTheU’s Gaby Urrutia and David Lake share their thoughts...

The Miami Hurricanes suffered a 38-17 loss to Michigan State on Saturday in what might be the most troubling result yet of the Manny Diaz era.  In the latest Through The Smoke podcast, David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their big picture thoughts on the program, what went wrong in the game, and what the potential solutions might be moving forward.  Check out the quick instant reaction podcast. 

The No. 24 Miami Hurricanes will host a Michigan State team that is better than everyone expected going into the season.  What scares us most about this MSU team? What does Miami need to do to control the game? Who are the key players to know on both sides of the ball? InsideTheU’s David Lake and Gaby Urrutia share their thoughts on this important game in this preview podcast.  Urrutia also shares...

In the latest edition of Through the Smoke, we get to know the Michigan State Spartans.  The No. 24 Miami Hurricanes will take on the Spartans this Saturday in a noon kickoff at Hard Rock Stadium.  Miami (1-1) enters the game looking to click on offense while Michigan State (2-0) is looking to build on their strong start to the 2021 season.  To get a better understanding of Michigan State, we aske...