What a start to the college football season, especially if you're a Miami Hurricanes fan. The team not only beat but dominated the Stanford Cardinal in California to a final score of 45-6. The Hurricanes were getting everything they wanted on the offensive side of the ball, and you can thank Darian Mensah and Malachi Toney for that.

Even though it was a Friday night where multiple key targets and prospects were playing at their high school, the recruits still shared their thoughts on the win with CanesInSight. Check out what the recruits and prospects had to say after the big time victory:

Five-star EDGE Rusher Asher Ghioto: "Miami dominated! Miami is Miami!"

Five-Star DL Kellan Hall: "The replays were really impressive. A high powered offense and got stops defensively. Pretty much what I was expecting from them this year and being in the National Championship conversation."

Four-star Miami defensive lineman commit Ezekiel Ayangbile: "I was very impressed with the teams performance yesterday, nothing unexpected from the program though, super excited to see where the season goes."

Four-star safety Jaxon Flowers: "The “U” is back fr. Miami’s performance didn’t surprise me at all because I know their goal for the season, get back to the national championship and win it. They were dominant on both sides of the ball. Malachi Toney for Heisman."

Four-star Athlete Aden Johnson: "Miami had a great performance. Everyone was eating and Miami was just doing what Miami does. One of the best to do it."

Four-star safety Cyion Smith: "We all expected Miami to dominate. They always dominate. [It] caught my attention quickly that’s how you open up the season."

Four-star cornerback Ryan Drakeford: "The performance was dominant! The U made it look easy. Well rounded squad. Will be fun to watch this year"

Three-star offensive lineman Charlie Pisani: "I love how they dominated like they should’ve. It shows me that they're on the same mission as last year."

Four-star cornerback Logan Thompson: "I think they played great, Mali did his thing, secondary played great aswell defense only allowing 6 points. Nothing changed about how I view the program, interest is still high, looking forward to seeing them progress throughout the season."

Three-star defensive lineman Zylen Little: "I thought its was a dominant performance by both sides of the ball. Mali was amazing I’m predicting he winning the Heisman. Miami remains a top contender with me. I love what they got going on."

Rutgers three-star ATH commit Zion Vilma: "It was great performance. I like how they took control of the game early and didn’t let up."

Three-star inside offensive lineman Hunter Hill: "I thought Miami looked really good yesterday. Being a C/G, I’m always watching the guys up front, and I liked how physical they played and how they controlled the line of scrimmage. You can definitely see Coach Mirabal’s coaching and the mentality he has those guys playing with. It didn’t really change how I view Miami because I already had a lot of respect for the program. If anything, it reinforced what I already thought. I’ve really enjoyed building my relationship with Coach Mirabal and the staff, and I can’t wait to get down there, spend some time with Coach, and see everything in person."

Top-100 safety CJ Craig-James: "Malachi Toney is the best player in the country and Mensah is really good as well! I expect Miami to be back in the championship."

Miami three-star defensive lineman commit Josh Johnson: "Mali is the best in the country and we are winning the natty this year."

 

It's not really a matter of who I believe should be the starters. I simply know you can't have two dudes that are both carbon copies of each other and their limitations physically on the field together. Chase Smith is constantly out of position and pass coverage and if you run outside without an edge set it's very rare he'll beat the offensive player to the position. I get it you got a reward people that put that much effort into their game. But this ain't participation this is about the best possible lineups on the field together and I'm not questioning heatherman or Mario or anyone else I just know like I said all off season I was worried about how we do setting the edge when it related to replacing Ruben and Mesi because I knew just how good they really were at exactly that and how much it allowed the defense behind them to excel. Now we have people on the edge that are struggling to set the edge against inferior competition and our linebackers in particular are going to have issues with that. So if it was me I would just have someone that's more athletic on the field with Moe then Chase Smith. But that's just me because if we do set the edge better which will come in time then linebacker won't be as much of an issue but until we make these adjustments defense as a whole is going to have issues which we saw sporadically throughout the game yesterday.

I’m with this. I hoped we would land a backer ( to your point ) that was twitchy to go along with the two we have. Wiley makes sense because of his size and athletic ability. Also he played well Friday. PoPo would have helped here and I don’t think we replaced him.

 

I've been saying pretty much this for a while now. Yet every time I say Wiley/Pruitt should be force fed reps and Smith should only be Toures backup I was ridiculed lol.

And I've been saying Setting edges as the #1 defensive issue. Also why losing lower imo was horrible for us

They will play more and more.

 

Should have went port as soon as Lowe started acting up. Not impressed with Scroggins or Carter. 2 guys in our deep at DE and DT respectively. Still have no idea why they let McConathy switch to TE.