Podcast: In an alternate universe, UM’s spring game is Saturday. What would’ve happened?
The Miami Hurricanes’ spring game is here! It’s finally time to see D’Eriq King in action and see what Miami’s new spread offense will look like on a big stage! Will the offensive line really be able to contend with Gregory Rousseau and Quincy Roche? It’s finally time to see!
At least this is what’s happening in an alternate universe where spring practices are still going on. In our dimension, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced all spring athletics to halt and cut short the Hurricanes’ spring practices. In our dimension, all we have to lean on is four practices Miami held last month before the coronavirus spread across the United States and shut down sports almost entirely.
This episode of the Eye on the U podcast comes at you from an alternate dimension, where David Wilson and Susan Miller Degnan, the Hurricanes beat writer for the Miami Herald, are thinking about what we will learn from this scrimmage at Traz Powell Stadium to cap off spring practices. In this alternate dimension, we’re about to have some of our biggest questions answered.
Each one of us picked the three things we were most excited to see in the spring game, including King’s chance to assert himself as the starting quarterback, the myriad options on the offensive line, the four-way competition to be the Hurricanes’ No. 1 wide receiver, and the chance to finally see Rousseau and Roche play together in live, competitive action. We cap each one of these with a prediction of what would have happened because it’s impossible for us to be wrong right now.
Finally, we wrap things up with some off-topic talk about “Star Trek,” “The Twilight Zone” and “Citizen Kane” because in our universe we’re still confined to our homes with no sports to watch. We like the alternate timeline better.
