On the opening day of the 2018 Miami Hurricanes fall fooball camp, a leaner, maybe even meaner middle linebacker Shaq Quarterman refused to even contemplate that this could signal the beginning of “the last run’’ he and fellow junior starters Zach McCloud and Michael Pinckney might have together as Hurricanes.
Not when that “natty championship’’ he has dreamed about since his freshman season is still out of reach.
Not when the Canes exploded out of the 2017 starting gate 10-0 and ranked as high as No. 2 in the College Football Playoff standings, then lost their last three games and what certainly would have been a spot in the playoffs.