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Courtney Martinez | NCAA.com | August 10, 2015

Goofing around

Watch out ACC special teams. Miami has a secret weapon.

Tom Symonds, assistant AD and football SID for the Hurricanes, was asked to be the tiebreaker in a punt-catching competition between the team's linemen after practice Monday.

The concentration and footwork by Symonds on the catch was impressive. But the celebration afterwards with the players and coaches was even better, completed with a spike.

Miami head coach Al Golden, seen celebrating in the background, may have to convince Symonds to do a few reps in the Canes’ return game.

But Symonds will have to work on remembering the fair catch signal:

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