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Quarterback U. was the given name all those years ago, and it once was a good and marketable name to showcase University of Miami football. But to those on the inside it’s always been something more than just a neat name.

“It’s a club,” Gino Torretta said.

It’s a closed club, too, one you can’t talk or buy or get voted in. You have to earn your way in by winning like all the big names before you did.

“I think that’s how all of us feel,” Torretta said. “It’s an honor to part of that club.”

Listing them all can be a feat of generational memory, like reciting U.S. Presidents. The easier way is to read their names off the stadium’s ring of honor. George Mira. Jim Kelly. Bernie Kosar. Vinny Testaverde. Craig Erickson. Ken Dorsey.

“We’d gone thr

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