According to Cam Underwood at State of The U, a Canes assistant coach refused to take Dante Moore's commitment in 2022. The 53 minute mark of this Voice of CFB Podcast video from 12-7-23. It sounds like he is describing FRANK PONCE?!?!?! Is this real? If so, that could explain why he got smoked.
"Dante Moore tried to commit to Miami, but a former staffer at Miami who no longer works at Miami, but works somewhere else, where they had worked before and went back to work again, put all that together if you want to, but that staffer was the one who squashed that commitment when he was down for a camp visit, which was his third camp visit, tried to say 'hey yeah, I want to go in the office I want to commit to the coaches and this one particular coach is the reason that that did not happen."