Miami Hurricanes football at its absolute apex, at its full, preening power back when UM was so good it was feared — Ed Orgeron has seen that. He lived it. Felt what it was like to be so dominant.
Orgeron, now the LSU head coach whose Tigers face Miami on Sunday night in the neutral-site season opener in Arlington, Texas, was UM’s defensive line coach from 1988 to 1992. Those Canes teams went 55-5, won two national championships and never finished lower than No. 3 in the final polls. Orgeron recruited Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson and coached the likes of Cortez Kennedy, Russell Maryland and Warren Sapp.