"This is something I've been waiting for my whole life, you know," said Harris, who was Miami's assistant director of football operations before the departure of longtime linebackers coach Micheal Barrow forced a reshuffling of the Hurricanes' coaching staff last week. "The hard work that you put in doing things the right way at the high school level, developing young people and then to have an opportunity to be the running backs coach at the University of Miami, it's a dream come true."