Canes Pulse

Peter Ariz
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Canes Pulse with Peter Ariz. The Heartbeat of Miami Hurricanes Sports.

  1. 1h ago

    The Ruling That Just Blew Up Every Roster in America

    On Friday night, Judge Charlotte Sweeney of the U.S. District Court of Colorado granted a class-wide preliminary injunction in Wisne v. NCAA, ordering the NCAA to declare eligible every Division I athlete who started college in 2022-23 and burned all four seasons by the end of 2025-26. No limitation on sport. Roughly two hours later, Big Ten presidents voted to support the Protect College Sports Act — a bill that standardizes five-year eligibility, bans professional athletes from returning to college, and hands the NCAA the antitrust exemption that would make Friday's lawsuit impossible to file. The court opened a door. Congress may close it next week. In this stream I break down what actually happened, who qualifies (and the mistake almost every list is making), which Hurricanes it touches in football and basketball, and the realignment clause buried in the bill that changes Miami's entire future. The Echevarria Law Firm — proud title sponsor of Canes Pulse. Free consultation → calleche.com Instagram & TikTok: @echevarrialegal The Echevarria Law Firm — Check the scoreboard. Paper Boy Co - Stickers, Banners, Posters, Wall Vinyl, and more. paperboy has you covered. https://www.instagram.com/paper.boy.co?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Ariz Law PA: Coral Gables Law Firm – Estate Planning, Business Law & Real Estate Attorneys Specializing in Corporate Law, Probate, Wills & Trusts Protect the People and Assets You Value Most. Plan Your Future arizlawpa.com

  2. 1d ago

    Miami Might Do This Two Years in a Row

    Last year a true freshman safety led the ACC in interceptions and sealed a College Football Playoff win over Texas A&M. Miami might be about to do it again. Bryce Fitzgerald set a bar nobody expecte: six picks, most in the conference, FWAA Freshman All-American, all as an 18-year-old. And here's the part that matters: coming out of high school he was 172 pounds and ranked around 133rd. He wasn't supposed to be that guy. Now there's another true freshman in that safety room. JJ Dunnigan is 6'3", 205, ranked as high as 92nd, and he ran a 10.94 hundred. Bigger than Fitzgerald. Ranked higher than Fitzgerald. And Miami's returning starter Zechariah Poyser just called him the fastest player on the team. He's also from Manhattan, Kansas, which is nowhere near Miami's normal recruiting map. His father played at Kansas State. He committed to KU, watched them lose 42-17 to K-State in October, decommitted two nights later, and pledged to Miami six days before he had ever set foot on campus. In this video: what Fitzgerald actually did last season, why Dunnigan left home, the recruiting flip nobody in Kansas saw coming, what came out of spring practice, including the honest part his own defensive coordinator. And whether he can realistically break into one of the best secondaries in the country. The Echevarria Law Firm — proud title sponsor of Canes Pulse. Free consultation → calleche.com Instagram & TikTok: @echevarrialegal The Echevarria Law Firm — Check the scoreboard. Paper Boy Co - Stickers, Banners, Posters, Wall Vinyl, and more. paperboy has you covered. https://www.instagram.com/paper.boy.co?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Ariz Law PA: Coral Gables Law Firm – Estate Planning, Business Law & Real Estate Attorneys Specializing in Corporate Law, Probate, Wills & Trusts Protect the People and Assets You Value Most. Plan Your Future arizlawpa.com

  3. 2d ago

    Miami Has TWO 6'8" Freshmen. Nobody's Talking About This One.

    Everybody's talking about Jackson Cantwell. And he's earned it. But Miami has a SECOND 6'8" freshman offensive lineman, and I think he's about to battle for the right guard job. Ben Congdon is 6'8", 330 pounds, and he turned 18 two months ago. Alex Mirabal found him as a high three-star at a Division V school in Zoarville, Ohio, and offered him before anybody else did Alabama came in only after he'd already committed to Miami. The consensus is that he's too tall to play inside. In a survey of 101 NFL guards, thirty-seven were 6'4" and exactly zero were 6'8". So the skepticism is fair. But here's what that take misses: Congdon is a state-placing heavyweight wrestler. And the actual reason tall guys can't play guard isn't the height — it's the stiff hips that usually come with it. Wrestlers bend. That's the entire sport. In this video: how Mirabal found him, what his wrestling background actually transfers to the interior, the two NFL comps that make the case — Georgia's Dylan Fairchild for the wrestling and Robert Gallery for the height — and my call on the Buchanan–Congdon battle at right guard. Includes his high school highlights plus recent footage from a workout with his trainer back home. The Echevarria Law Firm — proud title sponsor of Canes Pulse. Free consultation → calleche.com Instagram & TikTok: @echevarrialegal The Echevarria Law Firm — Check the scoreboard. Paper Boy Co - Stickers, Banners, Posters, Wall Vinyl, and more. paperboy has you covered. https://www.instagram.com/paper.boy.co?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Ariz Law PA: Coral Gables Law Firm – Estate Planning, Business Law & Real Estate Attorneys Specializing in Corporate Law, Probate, Wills & Trusts Protect the People and Assets You Value Most. Plan Your Future arizlawpa.com

  4. 3d ago

    This Explains Everything About Miami's Defense

    In 2024, Miami's defense ranked 50th in the country. In 2025, it finished top five. Same building, a lot of the same players — and a scheme that actually got simpler. That's the part nobody can explain, so I sat down with Nic Echevarria and worked through it piece by piece. The short version: the scheme isn't the answer, it's the delivery system. Corey Hetherman's defense is built on one rule that applies to all eleven players — over, under, or through his face — and that same rule shows up in block destruction, in tackling, and in the pass rush. Gap integrity is secondary. The quickest path from A to B is a straight line. On top of that sits ESV: Excitement, Swarm, Violence. Not a slogan on a wall — an actual grading system players get scored on. We get into the base defense and the three positions that make it go (Nickel, Jack, and B$), why a fast rush lets the coverage stay simple and put more eyes on the quarterback, and the honest weak spot — what happened when they blitzed on early downs, and the crease that opens up on the field side. The Echevarria Law Firm — proud title sponsor of Canes Pulse. Free consultation → calleche.com Instagram & TikTok: @echevarrialegal The Echevarria Law Firm — Check the scoreboard. Paper Boy Co - Stickers, Banners, Posters, Wall Vinyl, and more. paperboy has you covered. https://www.instagram.com/paper.boy.co?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Ariz Law PA: Coral Gables Law Firm – Estate Planning, Business Law & Real Estate Attorneys Specializing in Corporate Law, Probate, Wills & Trusts Protect the People and Assets You Value Most. Plan Your Future arizlawpa.com

  5. 3d ago

    INSTANT REACTION: A'Mir Sears set to reclassify and commit THIS FRIDAY!

    BREAKING: #1 player in 2028 A'Mir Sears set to reclassify to 2027 and commit this Friday! The Echevarria Law Firm — proud title sponsor of Canes Pulse. Free consultation → calleche.com Instagram & TikTok: @echevarrialegal The Echevarria Law Firm — Check the scoreboard. Paper Boy Co - Stickers, Banners, Posters, Wall Vinyl, and more. paperboy has you covered. https://www.instagram.com/paper.boy.c... Ariz Law PA: Coral Gables Law Firm – Estate Planning, Business Law & Real Estate Attorneys Specializing in Corporate Law, Probate, Wills & Trusts Protect the People and Assets You Value Most. Plan Your Future arizlawpa.com

  6. 3d ago

    LIVE FROM CORAL GABLES: One Week Until Camp!

    One week until camp begins! I am live from Coral Gables with the latest. The Echevarria Law Firm — proud title sponsor of Canes Pulse. Free consultation → calleche.com Instagram & TikTok: @echevarrialegal The Echevarria Law Firm — Check the scoreboard. Paper Boy Co - Stickers, Banners, Posters, Wall Vinyl, and more. paperboy has you covered. https://www.instagram.com/paper.boy.co?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Ariz Law PA: Coral Gables Law Firm – Estate Planning, Business Law & Real Estate Attorneys Specializing in Corporate Law, Probate, Wills & Trusts Protect the People and Assets You Value Most. Plan Your Future arizlawpa.com

  7. 3d ago

    These Rules Could Change Everything for Miami — and College Football

    Two stories broke today — and they're actually the same fight over who controls the money in college football. Stanford players just formed the first campus chapter of a players' association, aiming at eventual unionization. At the same time, senators spent a Sunday night on the phone trying to finalize a bill that could rewrite the entire pay-cap system. Stanford's in the ACC — same conference as Miami — so both stories land closer to home than you think. Here's what actually happened, what's still just proposed, and what it means for the Canes. The Echevarria Law Firm — proud title sponsor of Canes Pulse. Free consultation → calleche.com Instagram & TikTok: @echevarrialegal The Echevarria Law Firm — Check the scoreboard. Paper Boy Co - Stickers, Banners, Posters, Wall Vinyl, and more. paperboy has you covered. https://www.instagram.com/paper.boy.co?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Ariz Law PA: Coral Gables Law Firm – Estate Planning, Business Law & Real Estate Attorneys Specializing in Corporate Law, Probate, Wills & Trusts Protect the People and Assets You Value Most. Plan Your Future arizlawpa.com

  8. 4d ago

    UNC's GM Is On Leave. Remember What He Said About Miami?

    North Carolina placed general manager Michael Lombardi on paid administrative leave this morning — effective immediately, weeks before the season. UNC gave no reason, and no reporter has one, so this video doesn't speculate about it. What it does do is go through what's already on the record. In October 2023, Lombardi said Mario Cristobal was beyond saving: "There is coaching malpractice, and then there is coaching malpractice squared… you cannot cure this." In December 2024, two days after taking the highest-paid GM job in college football, he said Miami had "been wonderful in recruiting" but couldn't "get to the final 12" — that Cristobal collects talent and can't build a team. Nineteen months later: Miami went 13-3, finished No. 2, beat the defending champions in the playoff, played for a national title in its own stadium, and had nine players drafted with three in the first round. North Carolina went 4-8, ended a six-year bowl streak, lost 51 players to the transfer portal, and had zero players drafted for the first time since 2016. This is the story of what happened when college football decided the thing it needed most was NFL people. The Echevarria Law Firm — proud title sponsor of Canes Pulse. Free consultation → calleche.com Instagram & TikTok: @echevarrialegal The Echevarria Law Firm — Check the scoreboard. Paper Boy Co - Stickers, Banners, Posters, Wall Vinyl, and more. paperboy has you covered. https://www.instagram.com/paper.boy.co?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Ariz Law PA: Coral Gables Law Firm – Estate Planning, Business Law & Real Estate Attorneys Specializing in Corporate Law, Probate, Wills & Trusts Protect the People and Assets You Value Most. Plan Your Future arizlawpa.com

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Canes Pulse with Peter Ariz. The Heartbeat of Miami Hurricanes Sports.

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  • Creator
    Peter Ariz
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    61
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    Canes Pulse

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