What’s better than one 700-pound squatter to rile up the Miami Hurricanes? Two at the U

Justice Oluwaseun had just tied the all-time University of Miami football weightlifting record for squats — 700 pounds — but the extremely friendly and equally modest young man was not going to go around bragging about it.

“Me and Logan [Sagapolu] broke the school record,’’ Oluswaseun, a 6-3, 315-pound offensive lineman said this week when asked about his recent feat. “It’s cool having that kind of record. One of my roommates came up to me and he was like, ‘Bruh, your name is solidifed at Miami. That’s a big deal. Like, that’s something you should be proud of.’’

“Yeah, I did it, said Oluswaseun, who matched the record first broken by Sagapolu earlier this year. “Trying to sweep it under the rug and move on. That’s the kind of guy I am. Just keep moving on.’’

With that strength, Oluwaseun, 23, a sixth-year redshirt senior who transferred last year from UNLV and rotated between right guard and right tackle, should be able to hold his own in protecting reigning ACC Rookie of the Year quarterback Tyler Van Dyke.

“Physicality reigns supreme, brother,’’ UM coach Mario Cristobal told local beat writers recently, regularly acknowledging the hallmark of all of Cristobal’s programs, starting with his own two national championship teams in 1989 and ‘91 as an offensive lineman for the Hurricanes.

The previous all-time UM record for squats was defensive tackle Jim Burt’s 680 pounds in 1980. The previous record for a UM offensive lineman was Andrew Bain’s 650 in 2006.

Oluwaseun (pronounced O-luh-wuh-SHONE) is from Richmond, Texas, and played in 10 games last year, starting three. He loves having Cristobal, a former offensive lineman, get involved in day-to-day training of the big men.

“It’s definitely a great experience having the head man on you,’’ Oluwaseun said. “He runs individual drills, he comes into our meeting and takes over a couple times. It’s different. I’ve never had that in other coaches. They try to instill offensive line stuff but this guy is really into it. He wants us to be built in the trenches.’’

Cristobal, whose close friend and former Miami Columbus High teammate Alex Mirabal is the UM offensive line coach — “the elite of the elite’’ of coaches, Cristobal said Tuesday — also greatly admires strength coach and conditioning coordinator Aaron Feld. Mirabal and the high-energy, handlebar-mustachioed Feld came with Cristobal from Oregon.

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“Aaron is more than just a difference-maker as a strength and conditioning coach,’’ Cristobal said when Feld’s hiring was announced. “He is a game-changer in terms of fostering team culture, instilling discipline and building the DNA of a championship football program.’’

That culture was evident in the record-breaking squat videos showing Oluwaseun and 6-2, 340-pound third-year redshirt freshman guard Sagapolo, who transferred after last season from Oregon. The rest of the Hurricanes happily went wild and engulfed them.

Everybody was jumping on me, excited,’’ Oluwaseun said. “I’m glad I did it around my teammates.’’

Said Mirabal: “That was awesome.’’ I said, ‘Man, that’s a lot of weight.’ I loved watching on video the reaction of their teammates sharing in their success. That to me what was cooler....Biggest result: confidence strengthening not only physically but mentally. Coach Feld does a great job of preparing these guys mentally. They’re confident because they feel themselves getting stronger.

“They’ve seen their bodies transform.”

Oluwaseun described his 700-pound lift: “You definitely feel it on your back. You put the barbell on your back, kind of on your shoulder blades. My goal is to get my knees 90 degrees, so I get a full 90-degree squat and stand right back up.

“It was kind of funny,’’ he continued. “Coach Feld, we were doing our maxes and I don’t know if he’d like me saying this, but Coach Feld got kind of mad because we were taking so long. Everybody was like, ‘I can do more. I can do more.’ I said, ‘Coach, don’t be mad that you got us this strong. This is what we were trained to do and this is what you put us into.’

“...Definitely the guys don’t mess with me anymore,’’ he added, laughing. “They’re like, ‘Yeah, he squats 700. Leave him alone.’’’

Sagapolu, from Lehi, Utah, told reporters during the spring that he comes “from a power-lifting background.’’

“I love to squat,’’ Sagapolu said. “My goal before I retire is to squat 1,000 pounds. I just want 1,000 before I die.’’