Like one of those MTV shows featuring scantily-clad college coeds and rockers with unfamiliar names, or the dogwoods blossoming precisely one week before the first naïve hopeful tees off at The Masters, it has now become a latter day rite of spring.
Sometime in March, the University of Miami schedules its annual "pro day" workouts, and NFL scouts hasten to the Coral Gables campus, stopwatches at the ready, to peruse the latest contingent of Hurricanes draft wannabes.
It is, just like a bar that offers free buffalo wings and one-buck draft beers during happy hour, a must-stop for guys who earn a paycheck evaluating meat on the hoof. And if the flesh market isn't quite as good as what you might witness during a stopoff at nearby South Beach, when Miami draft prospects work out, there are typically some eye-bulging performances....more
Sometime in March, the University of Miami schedules its annual "pro day" workouts, and NFL scouts hasten to the Coral Gables campus, stopwatches at the ready, to peruse the latest contingent of Hurricanes draft wannabes.
It is, just like a bar that offers free buffalo wings and one-buck draft beers during happy hour, a must-stop for guys who earn a paycheck evaluating meat on the hoof. And if the flesh market isn't quite as good as what you might witness during a stopoff at nearby South Beach, when Miami draft prospects work out, there are typically some eye-bulging performances....more
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