CHARLOTTE — Dan Morgan always was willing to fight for the Miami Hurricanes.

Long before he became one.

Growing up near Philadelphia, he was surrounded by Penn State fans, and knowing he'd go on to be one of the great linebackers in college football history and a first-round pick in the NFL draft, you'd think "Linebacker U" might have appealed to him.

But instead of dreaming of being the next Jack Ham or Matt Millen or Shane Conlan, Morgan was the only kid in his school — maybe the state — with a Hurricanes linebacker Bernard Clark jersey.

"I was always a Miami fan, even when I lived in Philly; like that's all I cared about when I was a little kid," Morgan said recently. "I would fight with all my friends. We would literally get in fistfights over games, going back and forth on who was

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