Podcast: Miami is back on campus. Plus, Hurricanes in the MLB Draft and CFB Hall of Fame
It has been a summer of baby steps for college football and the Miami Hurricanes. On Monday, Miami took probably its largest step yet toward the 2020 season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
It started in the morning, when the Hurricanes began welcoming football players back into the football facility to take part in small group workouts in preparation for the upcoming season. It continued in the afternoon, when president Julio Frenk unveiled his plan to bring all students back to campus for the fall semester beginning in August.
Is this optimism we smell? On a new episode of the Eye on the U podcast, David Wilson and Susan Miller Degnan, the Miami Herald’s Hurricanes beat writer, talk through all the latest developments and explain why we feel pretty good about a season happening, even as cases of the coronavirus increase across the state, South Florida and Miami-Dade County. In Frenk we trust.
The back half of the episode is a grab bag of Hurricanes topics, starting with the 2020 MLB Draft. Miami was one of the big winners in the abbreviated five-round draft, getting three players selected including right-handed pitcher Slade Cecconi, who went No. 33 overall to the Arizona Diamondbacks. The successful draft week doesn’t necessarily mean concern for 2021 either, even after right-handed pitcher Brian Van Belle opted to sign with the Boston Red Sox as an undrafted free agent — the Hurricanes’ recruiting class is elite and only one of those players got drafted last week.
We also hit on the College Football Hall of Fame, and why former quarterback Ken Dorsey and former linebacker Dan Morgan should both get in. Finally, we wrap things up by discussing the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame’s fundraising efforts and why it’s such an important independent institution in Coral Gables.
This story was originally published June 17, 2020 at 7:17 AM.
