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Former Washington State quarterback Cameron Ward is transferring to Miami, he announced on social media Saturday night.
Ward entered the transfer portal as a graduate transfer on Dec. 1, then declared for the NFL draft but didn’t hire an agent, preserving his college eligibility.
The 6-foot-2, 223-pound Ward, who transferred from Incarnate Word to Washington State ahead of the 2022 season, threw for 3,732 yards, 25 touchdowns and seven interceptions while rushing for eight scores this past season. He earned All-Pac-12 honorable mention honors in each of his two years in Pullman.
Ward is the second quarterback Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal has secured through the transfer portal in the last week; Albany’s Reese Poffenbarger committed on Monday. Tyler Van Dyke, who started for the past three seasons for the Hurricanes and threw for 2,703 yards, 19 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in 2023, transferred to Wisconsin last month.
Either Ward or Poffenbarger is expected to get the reins to Miami’s offense, which needs a jump start in the passing game. The unit finished 31st in the country in total offense (431.2 yards per game), 42nd in passing offense (258.0 YPG) and tied for 38th with West Virginia in scoring offense (31.5 points per game).
Cristobal is 12-13 in his first two seasons at his alma mater after a 7-6 campaign in 2023. His Miami team opens next season at in-state rival Florida on Aug. 31.
Steve Belichick hired as DC at Washington
Steve Belichick has accepted the University of Washington defensive coordinator job, the school announced Tuesday.
Belichick, son of former Patriots coach Bill Belichick, has spent the past 12 years as a defensive assistant in New England, including five as a defensive playcaller.
Steve Belichick, 36, previously worked with newly hired Washington head coach Jedd Fisch in 2020, when Fisch was the Patriots’ quarterbacks coach.
Sources confirmed to ESPN last month that Steve Belichick and his younger brother Brian, also a Patriots defensive assistant, were offered an opportunity to remain with New England under new coach Jerod Mayo.
But Steve Belichick instead will join an overhauled coaching staff in Washington under Fisch, who signed a seven-year deal with the Huskies last month after Kalen DeBoer left the program to become the new coach at Alabama.
Washington’s hiring of Belichick was first reported Sunday by 247Sports.
The Huskies also are hiring former Patriots running backs coach Vinnie Sunseri to work with its safeties and secondary, a source told ESPN’s Field Yates. In addition to coaching with the Patriots for four seasons, Sunseri also coached as an assistant under Nick Saban at Alabama.
CFP agrees on SMU revenue distribution; less than full Power 5 allotment
CFP agrees on SMU revenue distribution; less than full Power 5 allotment
Hancock declined to say specifically what the monetary agreement was, and ACC commissioner Jim Phillips declined to comment after the meeting, as did SMU athletic director Rick Hart.
The 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, who joined Monday’s CFP meeting in Dallas by Zoom, have been discussing SMU’s revenue situation for months. SMU had already agreed to forgo ACC television revenue for its first nine years in the league.
There is already a glaring CFP revenue gap between the Power 5 (Pac-12, ACC, SEC, Big 12 and Big Ten) and the Group of 5 (Conference-USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, Sun Belt and American Athletic Conference). Currently, about 80% of the CFP revenue goes to the Power 5, while 20% is allocated to the Group of 5. Now the commissioners have to determine how it will be shared amongst the “Power 4,” as the Pac-12 is on the verge of extinction following defections to other leagues.
With the Pac-12 down to Washington State and Oregon State, the CFP’s model for how teams qualify for the new 12-team playoff this fall remains on hold. Except for the Pac-12, there is unanimous support for a 5+7 model that rewards the five highest-ranked conference champions plus the next seven-highest ranked teams. Hancock said that decision is with the board, where Washington State president Kirk Schulz represents the league with a vote on an issue that needs unanimity for approval.
