Before the Miami Hurricanes left for South Bend, Indiana, for their marquee college football game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, they huddled together and heard from a key figure.
“He spoke to us in front of the whole team,” center Ryan Rodriguez said, “and gave us some words of encouragement.”
The speaker: Malachi Toney, the team’s star wide receiver who had just undergone ankle surgery earlier Thursday morning, hours before the team’s flight, that will sideline him for at least the rest of the regular season…