Dan Radekovich, the University of Miami’s new athletic director, has roots at the school that go back to the 1980s when his career began a business manager.
He’s now tapping those roots to bring home one of the great Hurricane players from that era.
Alonzo Highsmith, 57, who has been an NFL personnel executive for the last decade, will return to Coral Gables as an assistant to Radekovich in the athletic department, the Sun-Sentinel has learned.
Highsmith was a candidate for the athletic director’s job that Radekovich was hired for in December. There were lingering whispers Highsmith could still be part of the new regime that includes coach Mario Cristobal, whose brother, Luis, blocked for Highsmith.