Their first practices involved no pads and no contact. Then slowly, as they added more equipment over the course of the last week, things started getting a little bit more intense.
Now, come Saturday night, on the same field where they’ll play their home games this season, the Hurricanes will get their first taste of real contact and real hits as they hold their scrimmage of camp.
Though the scrimmage — closed to both fans and reporters — will take place at a relatively quiet Hard Rock Stadium, it will be, for all of Miami’s players and coaches, a dress rehearsal of sorts as the Hurricanes move closer to their Sept.