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Hurricanes coaches, staff juggle game prep with recruiting before Early Signing Period

Usually, college football regular seasons would be over by early December, but not in 2020.

Because a two-week pause to the Miami Hurricanes’ schedule caused game postponements, UM still has games against North Carolina and Georgia Tech the next two Saturdays at Hard Rock Stadium.

That means college football’s Early Signing Period, which is three days beginning on Dec. 16, actually occurs before the regular season finale for Miami on Dec. 19.

“It’s very unusual,” UM coach Manny Diaz said on Monday. “This would be the week we’d be in the schools, we’d be in the living rooms of recruits and official visits on the weekend.