As a true freshman coming in, I'm all smiles. It was always like a family. Happy to be here, want to high-five everybody, and from the moment I walked into the locker room, it was you're gonna work. DT Matt Walters On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Walters I played with Richie Incognito with the Rams, and he told me when they saw us get off the bus at Disney [during the week], they started laughing. In interviews with players and coaches, here . I went to the University of Florida, where as a freshman in 1995, the Nebraska Cornhuskers staked their claim to the greatest-of-all-time throne after dismantling the Gators in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl. Soon, that entire mentality took hold across the entire team. Davenport was also an effective weapon as a receiver catching 35 balls for 3 touchdowns in orange and green. Hurricanes basketball coach Jim Larraaga highlights a 10-member University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame class. The fourth quarter was fun for us, because at that point, the game was kind of in hand, and everybody got to enjoy and be part of it: first, second, third string guys, everybody was getting in and getting to play. Anybody who could block kicks like that, he was a fan of. We all loved Dorsey, but we knew we had other skill sets and talent on that team. If you look at the film, at the last second as he's falling to the ground, he looks up to see if it's Ed, and he lets the ball go. Were the backups better than the starter? The loudest game. Williams; and defensive backs Ed Reed, Mike Rumph, and Phillip Buchanon. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. We win, and we're in that locker room, and when you work for something for so long, and you achieve it, there's a certain sadness. Dorsey Miami has two games remaining before the postseason begins and winning out has big implications for their place in the programs best all-time regular seasons. Do you have a blog? But there was never any pressure on anybody because they always thought they were going to get it done. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. [4] Dorsey Schumann returning to Georgia, Adelson: 2001 Canes make case for college football's GOATs, Miami's turnover chain set a celebratory standard across the college football landscape. there was no mention of GOATs or legacies, just one line at the bottom that noted: "This UM team has joined elite company.". It's a fun debate, but at the same time, the competitor in you has no doubt about where we stood. I'd feel good about our team against anybody. And that kind of stuck with me. Ed Reed, a free safety, is in the Hall of Fame (elected in 2019), and his backup was Sean Taylor, arguably the greatest safety who ever played the game. We were exhausted. ET on Feb. 10. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. But in the moment, as I wrote my recap of that game in January 2002, I was very much like the players. You know I'm hurt, yet we let them score two touchdowns. We knew what route was coming on that play. 14 Syracuse, 59-0", "No. Miami (2001) Michigan (1947) Notre Dame (1947) Oklahoma (1956) How many NFL players came from Miami? "They were really good, but I told Reggie, 'Yeah, you guys were fast and athletic, and we were equally fast and athletic," Vilma recalled recently. Given all the challenges associated with the 2020 season, the Crimson Tide could easily make their case. Romberg It was one of those games where the score just got run up. CB Markese Fitzgerald The Pro Football Hall of Fame class will be inducted during NFL Honors, which airs on ABC at 9 p.m. I was tired. Internships I started running at an angle toward the sideline. 1 defense. The guys before us set an expectation of how hard you had to work and what that standard was, and we knew we had to live up to that. Where . Rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top prospects at every position from Kiper, McShay, Miller, Reid, Kiper's new Big Board rankings for the 2023 NFL draft: Top 25 prospects, Syracuse QB Shrader to miss spring practice, Sources: Asst. In 2000, Miami was shut out of the Orange Bowl BCS National Championship Game by the BCS computers. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. I was hurt before this game. Larry Coker knew that once that baton got handed off, he wasn't changing anything. The Canes became arguably the greatest team in CFB history 20 years ago, finishing 12-0, winning the national title and producing 38 NFL draft picks. Rumph Starters are marked with an asterisk (*). "I just think our mental toughness was just as impressive as our physical and athletic ability. They beat us 59-0 and we finished that season with 10 wins. I turned around, and the next thing you know, the ball is floating to me in slow motion. Frank Gore was also on the 2001 national title Hurricanes roster. Walters Davenport went on to a seven year NFL career with the Packers, Steelers, and Colts, while averaging 4.6 yards per rush and scoring 13 touchdowns as a pro. They always had a good running back and good offensive line, and that is a hostile environment. We just knew we were going to win it all. Read more about our data coverage. Miami clinched a spot in the national title game against Nebraska at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., and felt confident this game would be its crowning achievement. If you don't drive them, you're going to be in trouble. . Fitzgerald That gave us a chance. In interviews with players and coaches, here . Yea I've been hurt. I tried to display that my senior year, 'cause I could have left my junior year. I remember thinking that it was going to be such a difficult game, and we over prepared ourselves so much that the game came easy. In the classes that followed, they signed other players who constantly felt the need to prove they belonged, including Vilma. When Miami needed to pick up a 3rd and short the bigger bodied Cobia was on the field to run iso from Miamis 21 personnel base offense at the time. Walters It's a really tight locker room, we're getting ready to go out, and I absolutely remember it like it was yesterday, and I remember getting chills from hearing his battle cry, just like coming out in the second half, we're putting this away. The events of 9/11 caused a pause in college football, with games that weekend either being canceled or postponed, and Miami's game against Washington would be rescheduled for later that season. I'm gonna run out of bounds." He was the perfect coach for our team, and his personality just meshed with us. A lot of people talk about the struggles against Florida State, but we had those struggles against Virginia Tech. Strength coach Andreu Swasey I'd been at Oklahoma and Oklahoma State for years and we'd never beaten [Nebraska]. We let them drive right before the half and Ed Reed wasn't in that drive because he had dinged up his shoulder. The toughness, the mental toughness. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. / Six players were drafted in the. Gore then injured his knee, which would become a tragic and common theme for one of the most universally loved Hurricanes in program history. Renew Now Close Topbar. Women's Basketball. I still have visions of Tommie Frazier leaving Gator defenders in his wake. The same standings that kept Miami out of the 2000 national championship game. It was the perfect storm for us. Vilma got into a debate several years ago with former USC running back Reggie Bush when the two played for the New Orleans Saints. We're dead. Last edited by a moderator: Jan 7, 2009. See our list of forfeits and vacated games for more details. "Because you're trying to recruit the foundation of what's to come for the next four years. 14, proved to be a formidable opponent. ACC Network FAQs Does that mean I didn't root for Vince? To win a national championship, you have to win some you're not supposed to win. Rumph 2001 Miami Hurricanes footballconsensus national champions, 2001 Big East Conference football standings, 2001 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, 2001 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team, 2001 Florida State Seminoles football team, 2001 West Virginia Mountaineers football team, would cost nearly $120 million as an NFL team, "CFB 150: Top 10 teams in college football history - Sporting News", "The 150 greatest teams in college football's 150-year history - ESPN", "The 2001 Miami Hurricanes Would Beat Any Team, Any Time - FanBuzz", "Hurricanes Roll Past Penn State, 33-7:: Ken Dorsey throws three touchdown passes to lead Miami", University of Miami (FL) Athletic Department, "No. For whatever reason, we always played them close in my four years there. Led by twelfth-year head coach Jim Larraaga, they play their home games at the Watsco Center on the university's campus in Coral Gables, Florida as members of the Atlantic . As cliche as it sounds, Miami wanted revenge. If you weren't doing all the right things, if you weren't going to class, making your grades, if you weren't showing up to work out or something like that, you could easily be cast out. That was it for Miami. He was leading stuff, telling guys what to do, up and down the court with the ball in his hands, and you could just see this guy had that magical feel for how to play team games. Gonzalez We just hope that this train just doesn't go off the track. "I said, 'Our difference is, we were gonna try to outhit you.' The debate over the greatest team in college football history will never end, and that is one of things we love so much about sports. It has been estimated that the 2001 Hurricanes would cost nearly $120 million as an NFL team as early as 2009. However, they had to do so under a new head coach, Larry Coker, who was named to the post after Butch Davis left to become head coach of the NFL's Cleveland Browns. But that goes to the larger point: The focus was not on their talent, but on gaining the respect those players felt had been denied to them going back to high school. (gofundme.com) What set those guys apart was what was inside of them -- in their heads and in their hearts, how they competed and how they prepared and how they loved and how they were passionate about playing the game. ", Flashback Friday pic.twitter.com/qCE9gnzI5E. Sports. Less Than 24 Hours to Renew Your Tickets. Privacy Policy After a Virginia Tech touchdown and two-point conversion cut Miami's lead to 2618, the Hokies blocked a Miami punt and returned it for another score, cutting Miami's lead to just two points. Single Game Season Group. So I continue to stick with Miami as the greatest team of all time. or thought they had just unlocked legendary status. After suffering a gruesome injury in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl, McGahee entered the 2003 NFL Draft knowing he would have to sit out a season to rehab. I thought to myself, "Oh my gosh, do not drop this." I wanted to win the national championship -- we wanted to win the national championship. We were bad that day. But Ernest Wilford dropped it. We all had our careers that take off from there, but from my eyes, I was like, "What now?" If we needed to win it on defense, let's go win it on defense. He was like, "You serious?" We could see with our own eyes what made that team go. [17] The offense set the school scoring record, while the defense led the nation in scoring defense (fewest points allowed), pass defense, and turnover margin. That served as motivation. There is history in nearly every corner of the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame and the Tom Kearns Sports Hall of Fame Building. LB Jonathan Vilma Led by quarterback Ken Dorsey, free safety Ed Reed, running back Clinton Portis, wide receiver Andre Johnson, tight end Jeremy Shockey, offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie, and linebacker Jonathan Vilma, Miami won the 2001 national championship. They were a good team. Miami also holds a number of NFL Draft records, including most first-round selections in a single draft and most consecutive drafts with at least one first-round selection. I had a front-row seat as the Miami beat writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that season. Ed Reed, Kenny Dorsey -- they took ownership of everything: Lifting, the workouts in the summer, coming in to watch film. You had to work. The players and coaches, first and foremost, were accessible. The intelligence he had. As the 2001 Miami Hurricanes celebrated a fifth national championship in the Rose Bowl locker room 20 years ago, not one person screamed, 'GOAT!' The 26-point margin tied for Penn State's worst home loss under Joe Paterno. And they had a great defense. I went to a JUCO in Scranton, Penn. Najeh Davenport was in the three headed monster backfield of the 1998 season with Edgerrin James and James Jackson before injuring his knee. And as a coach, you almost never want that -- guys on the ground, just a couple days before the game. We blocked a kick and a punt and blocked a field goal that day. Gonzalez It was a challenge to figure out how to get through the rest of that game. He almost had to come out of the game. It took that extra X Factor. including 17 first-rounders and at least one Hall of Famer in Ed Reed. The eccentric Portis is said to have played mind games with his backups in order to hold them down and keep the football in his hands. They dominated nearly everyone on their schedule, culminating in a resounding 37-14 win over Nebraska in the BCS National Championship Game in the Rose Bowl. From the 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team alone, 42 players went on to be drafted into the NFL from (2002-2006), including 17 1st round picks. I'd smile every time when I'd see them before the game and say, "Yeah, we're going to go at it. Coach had taught me for four years to get my hands down, get on his helmet and push his head down on the ground so that he doesn't get to your legs. In interviews with players and coaches, here . The 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. #14. Everything in Ed wanted to destroy Florida State for so many reasons. / LB D.J. Truly perfected that.". Adversity hit shortly after the calendar turned to 2001, when coach Butch Davis left to become head coach with the Cleveland Browns. Quarterbacks Williams That was the first time I was ever a champion of anything, so I just wanted to stay in the locker room. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes were the only team picked by fans to defeat the '05 Trojan squad, reflecting the esteem with which the 2001 Hurricanes are held in the college football world.[18]. We had it in us, and we knew we had it in us. Vince Wilfork, Frank Gore, Kellen Winslow, Sean Taylor -- they were all NFL first-rounders and they were all back-ups on that team. Additional contributors included future stars Kellen Winslow II, Sean Taylor, Antrel Rolle, Vernon Carey, and Rocky McIntosh. I couldn't get off the ground fast enough to go give him a hug. HURRICANES IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME: NAME: SCHOOL(S) POS: YEARS: INDUCTED: Bennie Blades: Miami: S: 1984-87 2006: Don Bosseler: Miami FB: 1953-56 1990: Andy . Gore has been named to five Pro Bowl rosters and has ran for 14,028 yards over his career. Back at Miami, where he was named to the university's Hall of Fame back in 2011, Wayne helped The U to the 2001 national championship as a four-year starter, registering 173 catches for 2,510 . "They were the hardest workouts we ever did," cornerback Mike Rumph said. So the following year was definitely a salt-in-the-wound, chip-on-the-shoulder type of season where we wanted to obviously take no prisoners and rectify what happened the year before. I'll never forget, he said he really liked our team. It was one of those games. The one newspaper that I still love to this day is the New York Times because they picked us as national champions at the end of the season. QB Ken Dorsey [6] [7] The Hurricanes have had at least one former player make the Pro Bowl every season since 1985, 31 years in a row. He was right. (From 1937 to 2001, bowl games did not count towards season statistics). Miami took a 34-0 halftime lead before cruising to a 37-14 victory, winning the school's fifth national championship. Terms of Service You go into the locker room and everybody is just elated. A lot of people don't know how close that was, but he was a huge leader for us, and he wasn't coming out of that game. As one of the younger players on the team, that competition only made me better. They were cracking jokes at us, and they thought that they were gonna just drag us all over the football field and just pound us. To me, it was special, and I knew it was going to be a tough game. However, in the final minute of the fourth quarter, with Miami clinging to a 127 lead, BC quarterback Brian St. Pierre led the Eagles from their own 30-yard line all the way down to the Hurricanes' 9-yard line. Some felt that Miami got snubbed in a chance to compete for the BCS Championship game. You look back on it, and man, that was a great play by Mike, by me, by Ed. It is unreal how deep their roster was in 2001. Mission Statement We all felt that that Sugar Bowl game against Florida, we knew that we should have been playing for a national title. Please consider making a secure donation today by clicking the link below. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes have been called "the single most talented college roster" ever. Gambling problem? I wanted to play more. In the 2002 Rose Bowl against Nebraska, Portis ran for 104 yards and a touchdown with another long touchdown run called back for a phantom holding. In 2002, Miami again played for a national title, losing in overtime to Ohio State. They thought that we looked like a high school team. Twenty years later, the 2001 Miami Hurricanes are widely regarded as one of the greatest college football teams of all time. The players coming to my backing was a big asset in me getting the job. They made sure their offseason workouts were the most intense of their lives. We saw a guy in the 55th row laying down with a camera, and we started pointing him out, and he gets up and runs to one of the exits. They hated to lose. I'll never forget the year before, we beat Florida State and guys were celebrating, and Ed Reed told Dorsey to stand up and told everyone to start cheering for Ken Dorsey. Two Hurricanes have won the Heisman Trophy and nine have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Ed was definitely yelling my name, "Matt! It was intense. The same standings that kept Miami out of the 2000 national championship game. I was like, "Coach, call whatever you want, we're gonna win." The 2022-23 Miami Hurricanes men's basketball team represents the University of Miami during the 2022-23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Years later in the NFL, I'm hearing people like, "Man, I listened to that song.". The way we were able to play, come out firing on all cylinders, was huge. OC Rob Chudzinski I have covered more national champions since 2001 Miami that could make their own claim, too. I think also, what rattled them was how much fun we had while being violent and being intense. Backing up the entire unit was football legacy Jarrett Payton. OL Joel Rodriguez They would challenge each other to sprints, or whatever it was, and they held each other accountable and would not accept mediocrity. Dorsey passed for 362 yards and 3 touchdowns, while wide receiver Andre Johnson caught 7 passes for 199 yards and 2 touchdowns. We never got worried. Instead, they played their backups and won 37-14, a score that does not reflect the sheer dominance of that game. We sucked on offense. "We really had leaders on that team, and I don't think that can be matched," Reed said. That atmosphere was crazy. Open Menu. Men's Basketball . 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