Hurricanes football welcomes 21 early enrollees to begin ‘new chapter in life’

Freshman tight end Jackson Carver likely won’t be piloting any airplanes in his home state of Minnesota the next few months, but he will be catching footballs, attending calculus class in the coming week and discussing the University of Miami playbook with his soon-to-be Hurricanes roommate Emory

Williams.

Williams, UM’s newest quarterback, won’t be seeing his six brothers as much back home in the Florida panhandle, but he will be studying Latin American history and appreciating his new Lakeside Village student apartment that overlooks what he described as “a beautiful campus.”

“It’s got everything you need,” Carver agreed. “It’s not too cramped and not too big. Lots of green.”

And Rueben Bain, the top-ranked recruit in Miami-Dade

County and among the finest defensive ends in the nation, won’t be helping his former Miami Central High Rockets strive for a fifth consecutive state championship, but he will be setting his alarm clock extra early to be on time for whatever awaits.

Carver, Williams and Bain are three of 15 recently graduated new Miami Hurricanes, who, along with six transfers, started arriving in Coral Gables as early as Thursday to move in, attend orientations and prepare for Tuesday’s first day of classes as early enrollees.

“It’s a new chance to start a new chapter in life,” Bain said Wednesday. “I did everything I could on the high school level, so now I’m just trying to rewrite my story on the collegiate level.”

ARRIVING EARLY

The Hurricanes had 25 incoming high school graduates sign letters of intent