Five days before University of Miami spring football practice began, coach Manny Diaz on Thursday compared recently meeting former Hurricanes coach Jimmy Johnson to meeting “Yoda in the cave’’ — the fictional Jedi Master in the Star Wars series.
Yoda once said, “Always pass on what you have learned,’’ and it’s obvious that Johnson, who led the Hurricanes to the 1987 national championship, is a believer in that philosophy.
“We could talk for an hour on what we got out of that,’’ Diaz told WQAM’s Joe Rose regarding his meeting with Johnson and the entire Canes football coaching staff last month in the Florida Keys.