{"id":371974,"date":"2026-08-15T04:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371974\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:20:13","slug":"mario-cristobal-recaps-miami-hurricanes-fall-camp-scrimmage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/371974\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Cristobal recaps Miami Hurricanes fall camp scrimmage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_2026-04-18_AD0795_UM_2_1_PAQIUUOF_L902211526.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Miami Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal runs onto the field for the start of UM's spring football game at Cobb Stadium on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables, Florida, on Saturday, April 18, 2026.\" alt=\"Miami Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal runs onto the field for the start of UM's spring football game at Cobb Stadium on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables, Florida, on Saturday, April 18, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Miami Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal runs onto the field for the start of UM&#8217;s spring football game at Cobb Stadium on the University of Miami campus in Coral Gables, Florida, on Saturday, April 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                PHOTO BY AL DIAZ<\/p>\n<p>            adiaz@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Hurricanes on Friday night held their first scrimmage of fall camp at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The scrimmage was closed to the media, but Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal briefly recapped the session with radio analyst Don Bailey Jr. and called the effort \u201cback and forth\u201d between the offense and defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought there were some explosive plays, and then some other plays where the defense just got after their butts, and then I saw it flip around the other way too in certain parts of the field,\u201d Cristobal said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we were hoping for. We\u2019re hoping for max effort for physicality and exchanging blows, and we felt like we saw that today. We put a lot of guys in situations \u2014 some young guys that hadn\u2019t gone with the ones yet and gave them an opportunity to prove themselves. So we\u2019re going to watch film, see where that\u2019s at. Looks like we came out relatively clean from an injury standpoint. We reminded the players it\u2019s tackle football, right? You have to block and tackle. Certainly we don\u2019t ever want to get anybody hurt, but we have to play, and we have to play hard, and we have to practice physical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cristobal also said they put together \u201c30 some odd plays\u201d worth of special teams prep during the scrimmage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad the kickers kick from all kinds of distances, tougher situations, red zone, two minute,\u201d Cristobal said. \u201cPut a lot of pressure on them to see how they perform. They did a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes will likely have one or two more scrimmages ahead of their season opener at Stanford on Sept. 4 (9 p.m., ESPN).<\/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\/08\/1786767613_511_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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal runs onto the field for the start of UM&#8217;s spring football game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-371974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371974","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=371974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}