{"id":136091,"date":"2026-01-29T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/136091\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:24:13","slug":"florida-state-fans-brace-for-the-worst-as-arch-rival-miami-lucks-into-another-top-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/136091\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State fans brace for the worst as arch-rival Miami lucks into another top QB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5l\">The arch-rival Miami Hurricanes have a transfer portal strategy of trying to get one of the top quarterbacks every year to lead their program. It\u2019s a strategy that\u2019s worked to a degree. Miami has won a lot of games over the past three years, with no conference or National titles to show for it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5o\">The crazy part is that Miami has taken some major gambles with this strategy. The strategy is basically to overpay. Case in point, Cam Ward declared for the NFL Draft, but Miami threw a ton of money at him to go there for his final year. It paid off for Ward since he became the No. 1 overall pick in the following NFL Draft, but Miami failed to make the ACCCG and lost their bowl game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">Miami had already taken a transfer quarterback, Reese Poffenbarger from Albany, until they lucked up and got Ward at the 11th hour. Miami went to the portal again before the 2025 season, taking an injured Carson Beck when there was no guarantee he\u2019d regain his level of play after injuring his throwing arm. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5u\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chopchat.com\/former-fsu-player-shocks-nobody-entering-portal-again-to-sign-with-arch-rival-miami\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related Story: Former FSU Player Enters Transfer Portal For Second Time To Sign With Miami<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5x\">If Beck didn\u2019t work out, they would have been stuck with Emory Williams (started as a freshman against FSU in 2023), who they didn\u2019t develop and has since transferred out. Miami would have likely had at least four losses and never made the CFP Playoffs. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">Here we are after the 2025 season, and Miami struck out on several options like Sam Leavitt and Brendan Sorsby. It wasn\u2019t until they threw a ton of money at Duke\u2019s Darian Mensah that they found its quarterback for 2026. They also got his top receiver, who will transfer from Duke, Cooper Barkate.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With the addition of Darian Mensah\u2026 the Miami Hurricanes should be the preseason #1 team in the country\u2026 this team is STACKED.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Mac Lain (@EricMacLain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricMacLain\/status\/2016346514616947197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 28, 2026<\/a>Miami is in the driver&#8217;s seat and Florida State settles for backup players at a key position<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"69\">Interestingly enough, Mensah had already signed a new deal with the Blue Devils and had to goto court to find a way out of that contract to enroll at Miami. If the situation with Mensah hadn\u2019t worked out, Miami would have been in dire straits. They have been playing with fire with this strategy, but somehow it has worked out for them the past two years. Will 2026 be different? I\u2019d take the field against Miami because they have Mario Cristobal for its head coach. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6c\">However, there\u2019s no question they are in a better position than Florida State going into 2026 after this move. They&#8217;ve been willing to spend the money to make things happen, and FSU hasn&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The arch-rival Miami Hurricanes have a transfer portal strategy of trying to get one of the top quarterbacks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-136091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}