Longtime Miami Hurricanes broadcaster Joe Zagacki had just gotten out of the hospital after a plane crash in which he broke every rib and shattered his right leg, when a buoyant Larry Wahl came knocking on his door.
This would be Zagacki’s first and only time he couldn’t broadcast a UM football game, and Wahl, then Miami’s senior associate athletic director of communications, knew the pain-stricken Zagacki would be emotionally wrecked. Wahl insisted that he keep Zagacki company while the two watched that 1992 season opener at Iowa — despite Wahl’s house being destroyed by Hurricane Andrew 12 days earlier.