{"id":224756,"date":"2026-04-09T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224756\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:30:07","slug":"eye-on-the-u-hurricanes-spring-football-plus-basketball-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224756\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye on the U: Hurricanes spring football. Plus basketball, baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Hurricanes are a little more than halfway through their spring practice schedule, having completed nine of 15 practices. The practice slate wraps up with the team\u2019s annual spring game next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Now that enough time has passed, it\u2019s time to take a look at some notable developments.<\/p>\n<p>On the latest episode of Eye on the U, Miami Herald Hurricanes beat writer Jordan McPherson and deputy sports editor Andre Fernandez talk a myriad of topics surrounding the Hurricanes. Among them: quarterback Darian Mensah\u2019s progression, the state of both lines of scrimmage and key freshmen who are making early impressions on the coaching staff and their teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, McPherson and Fernandez dive into a couple other UM sports, with the men\u2019s basketball transfer portal officially open for business and the baseball team starting to find its stride as it nears the midway point of Atlantic Coast Conference play.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775737807_378_JordanMcPherson (1).JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Jordan McPherson\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644615\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan McPherson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Jordan McPherson covers the Miami Hurricanes and Florida Panthers for the Miami Herald. He attended the University of Florida and covered the Gators athletic program for five years before joining the Herald staff in December 2017.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/255586171\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775737807_814_01HEADSHOT_ANDRE FERNANDEZ.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Andre C. Fernandez\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/255586171\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre C. Fernandez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Andre Fernandez is the Deputy Sports Editor of the Miami Herald and has covered a wide variety of sports during his career including the Miami Marlins, Miami Heat, Miami Dolphins, University of Miami athletics, and high school sports.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Hurricanes are a little more than halfway through their spring practice schedule, having completed nine of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-224756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224756","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=224756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}