{"id":452448,"date":"2026-02-09T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/452448\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:33:22","slug":"um-studied-panthers-heat-for-offseason-training-regimen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/452448\/","title":{"rendered":"UM studied Panthers, Heat for offseason training regimen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hurricanes\u2019 season started on Aug. 31 and extended until Jan. 19<\/a>. Miami played 16 games \u2014 three more than any UM team has ever played in.<\/p>\n

When deciding how to train this offseason and prepare for the 2026 season, Miami looked at two other local teams to see how they handled training after deep postseason runs. Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal said in an interview on WQAM\u2019s \u201cThe Joe Rose Show\u201d that the team\u2019s off-field staff examined the Miami Heat and Florida Panthers\u2019 regimens after their deep playoff runs<\/a>, among other teams\u2019 regimens, when preparing their offseason schedule.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did they do in the offseason?\u201d Cristobal said.<\/p>\n

Cristobal said players who played 400 or more snaps have less high-impact training this offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as you don\u2019t compromise physicality, toughness and everything that comes with it and culture, I\u2019m OK with it,\u201d Cristobal said. \u201cAnd you know what? The people we have downstairs, they\u2019re real. They\u2019re not these softies. They\u2019re professionals. Everything they brought to the table, it matches up, for the most part, what I\u2019m seeing with my eyes. So I have to learn. I have to keep growing as a coach. And they really helped me with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cristobal compliments Barkate<\/p>\n

Darian Mensah<\/a> was not the only high-profile player Miami poached from Duke last month. The Hurricanes also added star wide receiver Cooper Barkate,<\/a> who followed Mensah to UM.<\/p>\n

Barkate is a top-end player in his own right. He led Duke with 72 catches, 1,106 receiving yards and seven touchdown catches. He was a second-team All-ACC selection. Barkate had a 76.6 receiving grade from Pro Football Focus.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was recruited as a safety by a lot of people,\u201d Cristobal said. \u201cSo you know he\u2019s got that mentality to just get after you. And he was a great player at Harvard, and out there, in three years, already had his diploma and went out to Duke and then from there he followed his quarterback into the portal. He\u2019s explosive. Another 1,000-yard guy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of neat. We have a lot of thousands, right?. Four-thousand (yard passer) here. One thousand there. Mark Fletcher (Jr.), a thousand (yards rushing), Malachi Toney, a thousand (yards receiving). Let just keep adding in those kind of numbers, we\u2019ll be all right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hurricanes\u2019 season started on Aug. 31 and extended until Jan. 19. Miami played 16 games \u2014 three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5102],"tags":[1879,62,57,5141,5,1180,14735,4,63,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-452448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-panthers","11":"tag-floridapanthers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-miami-hurricanes","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-panthers","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116042347524432475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}