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Jimmy Johnson says the 'U' is no longer 'U'nique

On this week of the once-great Florida State-Miami rivalry, I have but one question:

What happened to the Miami Hurricanes?

This is the same simple question I asked Jimmy Johnson during a visit to his home in the Florida Keys over the summer.

I figured who better to answer the question about the once-feared Hurricanes being downgraded to a tropical depression than the man who turned UM into the "U." Howard Schnellenberger resurrected Miami's program and won the school's first national title, but Johnson created the image, aura and swashbuckling swagger that transformed the Hurricanes into the most dominant, dynastic, intensely intimidating college football program of the 1980s and '90s.