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How the man once in the shadow of two legends intends to make Canes baseball proud again

About a year ago, Gino DiMare was at a meeting with then head baseball coach Jim Morris and several administrators from the University of Miami.

DiMare, at that point the UM baseball coach-in-waiting, rattled off to his bosses what he would need as far as facilities in the years to come. “He said, ‘I gotta have this and this and this and this,’’’ Morris said of DiMare, who will coach his first game as the head man on Feb. 15 in the season’s home opener against Rutgers. “I know it’s tough,’’ Morris recalled DiMare saying, “but I’m following two legends, not one.