Former Miami Great Alonza Highsmith Joins Miami Staff

Faculty soccer is a enterprise, whether or not we prefer it or not. It’s been that manner for a very long time now, however by no means have the NCAA’s monetary waters been harder to navigate than in at the moment’s NIL period. To be a profitable program within the present local weather, every program’s employees needs to be simply as versed in enterprise as they’re in soccer. And few individuals know extra about both, than former Hurricane legend Alonzo Highsmith.

Highsmith turned the most recent former Hurricane nice to rejoin the Miami soccer program when he accepted the position of Common Supervisor of Soccer Operations final month. Highsmith has spent the final twenty years in numerous NFL entrance places of work together with the Inexperienced Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns. 

He involves the Hurricanes after leaving his most up-to-date position of Scouting and personnel government with the Seattle Seahawks. Now that he’s again at Miami, his position will likely be to guage personnel, handle scouting, and function in compliance with NIL laws to make sure that the Hurricanes are working at an expert degree.

“It’s an honor to come back again to the College of Miami and I’m very humbled,” Highsmith, additionally a Miami (Fla.) Columbus graduate, expressed by a press release through the college. The bruising ball service amassed 2,935 all-purpose yards and 25 touchdowns as a Hurricane and received a Nationwide Championship with “The U” again in 1983. 

“The chance to work with Mario Cristobal and (Athletic Director) Dan Radakovich, in addition to my ardour and love for the town of Miami is what introduced me again. I couldn’t move up this chance and this problem.”

A problem is actually what lies in retailer for Highsmith, who was the third total NFL Draft Choose in 1987, and the remainder of the Hurricanes employees. The Hurricanes haven’t been in nationwide championship rivalry since 2002. He joins fellow ex-Hurricane Ed Reed, who serves as Chief of Employees for the Canes, in addition to former Miami Dolphin Jason Taylor, who’s a Defensive Analyst with the squad.

For Miami to grow to be once more, it actually helps to have effectively revered former greats on the employees. Including Highsmith to Reed and Taylor actually accomplishes that activity.