Thirty-five years of sports writing teaches you to enter any team’s preseason Media Day prepared to hear mostly rehearsed overcoached platitudes (translation: boring quotes).
So, it came as no surprise that the University of Miami football players, sitting at folding tables in matching orange polo shirts, delivered mostly matching answers as media members swarmed them with questions on Tuesday afternoon at the Hurricanes’ perfectly climatized indoor practice facility.
The main theme of the day was how the program has changed under first-year $80 million coach Mario Cristobal and whether long-suffering UM fans will finally have the nationally relevant, championship-caliber team they have been craving for more than two decades.
