Highsmith returns to Hurricanes as GM of football operations
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Alonzo Highsmith is again with the Miami Hurricanes, with the college asserting Thursday that the previous participant and NFL govt is its new normal supervisor of soccer operations.
The college didn’t disclose hiring phrases.
Highsmith has spent practically 30 years in NFL entrance workplaces, the vast majority of that point with the Inexperienced Bay Packers’ participant personnel division. He additionally was vp of personnel for the Cleveland Browns and most lately was a scouting govt with the Seattle Seahawks.
Highsmith rushed for the landing that put Miami forward to remain in its 31-30 win over Nebraska within the Orange Bowl following the 1983 season for the Hurricanes’ first nationwide championship.
He was drafted third general by the Houston Oilers in 1987, certainly one of three Miami gamers — No. 1 Vinny Testaverde and No. 9 Jerome Brown being the others — who had been taken within the first 9 picks that yr.
Highsmith is a Miami native and performed 4 years for the Hurricanes underneath Howard Schnellenberger and Jimmy Johnson.
___
Extra AP faculty soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
