The Miami Hurricanes are still waiting for Cam Ward to decide between Miami and the NFL, while Ohio State is making a move to land Will Howard from Kansas State.
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00:00 Nope, it's past Christmas. We're still waiting on a quarterback. But the wait for the truth
00:05 teller is over. Because he's here. Bruce Warner is with us. Bruce, I hope outside of waiting
00:11 on a quarterback, I hope you had a great Christmas and you're having a good holiday season.
00:15 I did, but I've got some news. I think he's waiting till Passover, next April.
00:19 I was going to say, Cam Ward's father said they would decide around Christmas. Didn't say what
00:25 year. But he was on last night though, America's Most Wanted. They were trying to find a kid.
00:32 What a mess this has become. I can't believe this. Hold on, hold on. I think our fan base may
00:39 be overplaying the mess part of it a little bit. Because first of all, there are still a handful
00:45 of quarterbacks that are out there who haven't decided. In fact, new quarterbacks are still
00:49 hitting the transfer portal. Jaden DeLora from Arizona, who's a pretty good player, played under
00:54 Jed Fish there. He's hit the portal. We just had Tate Rodemaker just hit the portal yesterday.
01:00 I don't want him. I don't want him. But there are still quarterbacks entering the portal.
01:05 And Bruce, Miami is not the only major team looking for a quarterback that doesn't have one yet.
01:10 Ohio State, they may be on the verge. We'll talk about that in a second. But Ohio State,
01:16 as of today, does not have a new quarterback yet. Neither does Florida State and neither does USC.
01:22 And I might even be leaving some out. But our fan base, I think we set an expectation and we set a
01:28 timeline that this needs to be done first by National Signing Day. And then it needs to be
01:33 done by Christmas. Otherwise, we're going to go crazy and we're going to write angry tweets and
01:37 we're going to be angry on message boards. It's not as if Miami is the last person around the
01:43 musical chairs that hasn't sat down yet. Our timeline may not necessarily be the timeline,
01:49 if you know what I mean, Bruce. It's not the timeline. I don't even know if there is a timeline
01:54 because we were talking about Jefferson 10 days ago. He can't get here until next Friday. So we
02:02 have another 10 days in the middle. And then Howard's not going to USC. They don't have the
02:08 funds. So now they're talking about Ohio State. And now Ohio State's talking about Ward. What
02:14 about us? Well, Ohio State's not getting them both though, Bruce. I understand that.
02:18 Oh yeah. So you're bringing up something because for basically all of last week,
02:23 the USC Twitter insiders, which are even more shameless than Miami's, were saying, "Oh,
02:28 Howard, he's coming here. He's coming to USC. It's a done deal." Not only is Will Howard not
02:34 going to USC, at least not as of today, looks like Will Howard's actually going to Ohio State.
02:40 That affects Miami in multiple ways, Bruce. Will Howard-
02:46 It limits their options for one.
02:48 It does limit their options, but a lot of people viewed Ohio State as a potential contender for
02:54 Cam Ward. So if they take Will Howard, at least that crosses Ohio State off of Cam Ward's list.
02:59 So that's a good thing for Miami.
03:01 Yeah, but why couldn't... Look, I'll ask everybody if they could comment because they usually do.
03:05 Would you rather have a commitment from Howard now and not get Ward if you could get him?
03:13 Because I don't know if he's interested in Miami, but he had a hell of an interview supposedly
03:17 two weeks ago. And the same thing with Ward. So if he says, "I'll come here," would you say,
03:22 "All right, forget Ward. I'll just take Howard." I would, but if he's going to go to Ohio State,
03:28 he couldn't possibly have an interest in Miami because we have the money to get this kid,
03:33 just like Ohio State. I don't understand. This guy said Howard now. I would take Howard in two
03:41 seconds. You've got to-
03:41 Take Howard and run, SP says.