Here was a beginning: A college coach, sitting in the living room of a high school All-American who's slumped in a beanbag chair half-asleep and hardly paying attention. The first time he met Andre Johnson, Chuck Pagano remembers walking out of the house and his boss mumbling, "This guy don't want to go to Miami."
No. Not at first. That boss was Butch Jones, head coach of the Hurricanes. Pagano coached the defensive backs. It was 1999. Johnson was the recruit half the country was chasing, the prospect who'd bloomed in The U's backyard — his high school sat six miles from Miami's campus — but resisted, at first, starring for his hometown school.