Miami-Notre Dame Line Moves After Malachi Toney Injury

We learned yesterday on the show, as much as I thought Craig Mish was finagling me and completely punking me on the show, but it turns out that yes. Uh, that we've got a problem with the University of Miami. So much so, Craig, that last night we watched that line shoot up to eight and a half against Notre Dame. Oh my gosh, I didn't know that. It, it is high as eight and a half, and, and by the way, this was, that was that hard run bet, which is in Florida, which is where Miami is. So even Miami fans were running and fading there. What is it now? But it's seven and a half. That's where it settled here. There will be a chance that you're going to get a lot more Notre Dame money by the time kickoff. Very public team, Notre Dame. We all know it. They have been for years. So come closer to kickoff. We might see an 8, 8.5. I say this because if you... There's no rush. If you're thinking about Miami, there's no rush to hurry up and get the hook, because I don't think it's going anywhere. Craig, I think it's only going to go towards Notre Dame. But I'm having a hard time in my head. Justifying, because it appears like college football has become the NBA now, where all of a sudden, oh, by the way, the guy stubbed his toe, there's some sort of toe thing, and then an hour before game time, it's like, you know what, he's out a month, he's out two months, sorry, we're going to surgery. That's exactly what, in no way, shape, or form, did Malachi Toney twist his ankle in practice yesterday. We heard that, yeah, he twisted it, but you know what? It's the magnitude of the game. Didn't we hear that, Craig? The magnitude of the game is so great that he's going to give it a go. He's going to. An hour later, no, no, he's not going under the knife. He's going to have surgery and hopefully we get him back. But there is no way that took place in two hours from twisting his ankle in practice and knowing it. So walk us through what is likely the timeline here from when there was a problem to be knowing that. He's out for the rest of this. Not only is he not playing this game, but he is also likely out until at least, hopefully, maybe the playoffs. Because you don't go from twisting your ankle to surgery in a couple of hours, Craig, do you? Look, I don't know the answer and we're not going to get it. I know that he did leave the game against North Carolina. He left the game against North Carolina for a couple of plays. I do know that. And it was a leg injury of what they didn't really specify. So if you want to put two and two together, I certainly think that you can. I don't know the answer if that's really it, if it's pre-existing or something really did happen in practice. But, yeah, either way, I think my take on Malachi, Tony, as it pertains to you, is twofold. I agree with you on one sense, and I disagree on another. Where I agree with you is that I still think Miami can win the game without him. I think Miami's more talented, Miami's more explosive. The running backs, especially Mallory, who we've talked about, is now really coming into his own. They have two guys that are absolute studs there. So I agree with that. Where I disagree with you is that I think you're downplaying the magnitude of what this player does mean, though, to Miami. Maybe you're not, and maybe I'm overstating it from what we talked about yesterday, but I think he is a top three offensive player in all of college football right now. I don't think that you can name three better offensive players in college football, and that would include, I suppose, Jeremiah Smith. And then maybe whoever you think the best quarterback in the country is. I'm not really sure who that is at this point. But to me, in watching his games, and not just because I live here, I don't root for Miami. I went to UF. I just think that he is the biggest difference maker on the field. Like Belichick said after the game. We knew exactly what he was going to do. He did exactly the same thing that he did in every game that we saw. We just could not stop this guy. Like, that's it. There was nothing else to say. We knew. We covered him. He got open. He went off again. Like, that's it. And that's rare. That's like Jackson Smith-Njigba. Justin Jefferson. Like, those kind of guys that take over games. Uh, Miami should not cry if they lose by 21 and say, if we would have had Tony, we would have won. Cause that's not going to be fair. And I'm not going to buy that. But I do think that it is a monster, a player being out to the degree of I'm trying to think of a college football player, a non quarterback that moved the line a point or two. That's not a quarterback, you know, like, and I'm, and I'm having a hard time thinking of one. So We'll see if it's a factor or not, Joe. I do have a sense that if Miami wins, and I think they can, by the way, and I probably would just take the points, that we'll just move on and maybe you'll be right. Maybe he's not a factor at all in this particular game. But unfortunately, Joe, what I'm getting from seeing my buddies and seeing social media is that the excuse is coming here for UM. And they're going to use... This is the reason why they lost, and I'm not going to go there. I don't think that would be the reason. I think the reason if Miami loses is because they don't play deep.