Kehoe returns to Miami
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Art Kehoe waited five years for the chance to return to Miami. That was enough. So when Hurricanes coach Al Golden called to offer his old job back, the Conshohocken native scrambled out of his home in Taylor, Miss., and headed for the 16-hour drive to Miami.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Art Kehoe waited five years for the chance to return to Miami. That was enough.
So when Hurricanes coach Al Golden called to offer his old job back, the Conshohocken native scrambled out of his home in Taylor, Miss., and headed for the 16-hour drive to Miami.
A week later, Kehoe still finds it surreal.
"I can't tell you how great it is to be back," Kehoe said. "It's unbelievable. Just pumped up."
Saying repeatedly how excited he was about the chance to wear Miami colors again, Kehoe spoke Monday for the first time since his hiring as the Hurricanes' offensive-line coach - the job from which he was fired after the 2005 season, despite being the only coach with ties to all five of the school's national championship teams.
A former player at Archbishop Kennedy High, Kehoe played at Miami and coached there for 25 years. He's lived elsewhere for the last five, but Miami was always home.
"I just want to tell you from my heart and soul, to be back in Miami is a wonderful thing," Kehoe said.
After getting fired by former Miami coach Larry Coker, Kehoe had picked up jobs at Ole Miss, an NAIA school in Tennessee called Lambuth University, and the United Football League's California Redwoods.