I had to challenge them, because if not, they're looking at you like, "What is this?" Ed was definitely yelling my name, "Matt! * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). That's always what Miami had been about, and what set it apart in my mind. I think they might have called us Michelin men because some of the guys when they first put clothes on, they literally look like the Michelin tire guy because they were loading up like they were going into a frickin' blizzard. We're dead. "I just think our mental toughness was just as impressive as our physical and athletic ability. This past January, I sat in the press box at Hard Rock Stadium in the most bizarre setting for a national championship game, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. In all, an extraordinary 17 players from the 2001 Miami football team were drafted in the first-round of the NFL Draft (5 in the 2002 NFL Draft: Buchanon, McKinnie, Reed, Rumph, and Shockey; 4 in 2003: Johnson, Joseph, McDougle, and McGahee; 6 in 2004: Carey, Taylor, Vilma, Wilfork, Williams, and Winslow; 1 in 2005: Rolle; and 1 in 2006: Kelly Jennings). I think it was kind of a weight off everybody's shoulders at the end. I remember the doctor saying he couldn't really throw the ball. You may win one, but we're gonna win 20 of them, and it's not gonna stop.'". We were just too big, strong and fast, and way too physical. It has been estimated that the 2001 Hurricanes would cost nearly $120 million as an NFL team as early as 2009. Hurricanes basketball coach Jim Larraaga highlights a 10-member University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame class. I think they added extra bleachers so now they had the biggest stadium in college football. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. That was the first time, for a portion of the game at least, we let our gaze get to the horizon and not on the task at hand. Romberg 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. Rumph Coker 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. We have the recipe, we have the tools, we have everything to be successful. 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. When we recruited him in high school, when I actually went to see him in person it was at a basketball game. We knew a kid could run and be athletic and we had the blueprint for that. Kenny didn't have the strongest arm in football, but he was just a tremendous leader and just a playmaker. They had confidence. In my game story, headlined "UM-BELIEVABLE!" 15 Washington 3429 on the road, while the Seminoles' lone loss was on the road to the #7 team in the country by 3. Miami may have cost themselves an ACC title with their first home loss of the season. We were confident. Chudzinski / Adversity hit shortly after the calendar turned to 2001, when coach Butch Davis left to become head coach with the Cleveland Browns. Back then, we had availabilities three times a week with players, an open locker room after games and access to practice, too. Shockey had been there and done that, but we had new guys stepping in who weren't first-round draft picks yet. The guys suffer their worst loss of the season, but can still win the ACC. A lot of people talk about the struggles against Florida State, but we had those struggles against Virginia Tech. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. I have covered more national champions since 2001 Miami that could make their own claim, too. He made good decisions and he made everyone around him better. Dorsey threw four interceptions. We go to the sideline, and Randy Shannon, after the first series he's like, "Hey, how do they look?" And I felt like I was a chess piece to that. Privacy Policy What players and coaches insist set this team apart was their camaraderie, accountability and willingness to do whatever it took to win a championship -- especially those afternoon workouts. Media Requests The intangibles he had. LB D.J. And as a coach, you almost never want that -- guys on the ground, just a couple days before the game. I don't know if this ever got released to the media, but Kenny [Dorsey] got hit and took a hard shot to the ribs. There were a lot of expectations, and Larry took the pressure off of them. After that, there are issues like roster. Less Than 24 Hours to Renew Your Tickets. Hurricanes Can Finish With Best Regular Season in Program History. 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. It's almost like that life doesn't exist. We never got worried. In interviews with players and coaches, here . They were driven by the snub they all felt the previous year, after Florida State got into the BCS national title game instead of Miami -- even though the Hurricanes won their regular-season matchup. We'd just beaten Florida in the Sugar Bowl and gone 11-1. But I wasn't leaving these guys. The toughness, the mental toughness. All I could think as I looked on from the press box was, "I can't believe they're about to blow this," knowing full well a trip to the national championship and the Rose Bowl was on the line. Chudzinski Every one of those games was a physical, physical affair. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Butch did a great job recruiting and developing and building the culture. Fundraiser : The UM Sports Hall of Fame Needs U! Reed Chudzinski The leadership. OC Rob Chudzinski Among the numerous stars on the 2001 Miami squad were: quarterback Ken Dorsey; running backs Clinton Portis, Willis McGahee, Najeh Davenport, and Frank Gore; tight end Jeremy Shockey; wide receiver Andre Johnson; offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie; defensive linemen Jerome McDougle, William Joseph, and Vince Wilfork; linebackers Jonathan Vilma and D.J. And that kind of stuck with me. Twenty years later, the 2001 Miami Hurricanes are widely regarded as one of the greatest college football teams of all time. At the time, [Paterno] wasn't taking JUCO transfers, and that was one of the schools I would've went to, so when I got a chance to play against them I said, "I'm gonna show him. 1 offense against the No. It's not the individual talent. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. ACC Network FAQs That 2001 Miami team, led by head coach Larry Coker in his first season, went undefeated and had just two games finish within 20 points. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Walters Larry Coker knew that once that baton got handed off, he wasn't changing anything. We were winning, but we left a lot of points on the field. He made things happen. It has been achieved by the 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Alabama Crimson Tide football teams and the 2012 Wisconsin Badgers football team. ET on Feb. 10. Let's go, man! Payton didnt enjoy the NFL success as the other running backs but did play for the Tennessee Titans in 2005. I wanted to win the national championship -- we wanted to win the national championship. But the number of great players, first-round draft choices and players who got drafted, it's amazing really. We had 31 scholarships lost. 1.". The first quarter, we'd always said, once we got the speed of the option down, we'd get it done. Like it was a fairy tale.". Portis ran for 9.923 career yards and 75 touchdowns for Washington and the Denver Broncos while making two Pro Bowl rosters. Its hard to say in the case of Willis McGahee. Last edited by a moderator: Jan 7, 2009. Nobody was too "big time" for anything. When he dropped the two-point conversion, I was like, I need some prayer right now. It seems like that every year. My knee went between my hands, and hit the tip of the ball and it flipped to Matt Walters. Payton ran for 985 yards and 7 touchdowns as a senior and averaged 5 yards per carry over his career. We blocked a kick and a punt and blocked a field goal that day. The Hurricane defense picked up the slack by limiting BC to just seven points. We all loved Dorsey, but we knew we had other skill sets and talent on that team. Shockey was diving for balls, Ed Reed was coming up full-speed, full-tackle. And to stand up at the podium with guys like Andre Johnson, who was my suite mate since my freshman year, and hold up that trophy -- that was special. One of the things that happened in practice, we caught a few guys in the stadium trying to record our practices, seeing how we were going to stop the triple option. Dorsey Download Our App, Achong, Harden & Hedley Earn ACC Postgraduate Scholarships, Newport News, Virginia/Hampton Roads Academy, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada/Vanier Academy, Windsor, Ontario, Canada/Belle River District. We just knew we were going to win it all. I don't know a single person that wasn't pissed headed into that game. We liked what we had already, and we really wanted to just keep what we had. We were pissed. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. Shannon MIAMI, Fla. - Matthew Cleveland scored a last second three-pointer of the game to lead the Seminoles to an 85-84 victory over the top ranked Miami Hurricanes at the Watsco Center. Miami jumped on Virginia Tech early, leading 203 at halftime, and 2610 in the fourth quarter. / The Hurricanes led 34-0 at halftime and could have easily won 59-0 had they decided to play their starters the majority of the second half. So I continue to stick with Miami as the greatest team of all time. That goes for everybody. In addition, Vilma, Shockey, Wilfork, Joseph, Rolle, McKinnie, and Reed have won the Super Bowl. Fitzgerald The 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. It is through the support of Hurricane fans and alumni that we are able to make a difference. We watched that, perfected that. The players and coaches, first and foremost, were accessible. "I'm willing to line our 2001 team up against any collegiate institution, anytime, anywhere," center Brett Romberg said. You can make the argument it's the most talented team to ever play. He was probably the most hated guy in all of Blacksburg that night, but at the same time thank you so much, because you just kind of saved us some heartache. They should have gone back to high school where they do the running clock. Download Our App. That was the first time I was ever a champion of anything, so I just wanted to stay in the locker room. Anybody who could block kicks like that, he was a fan of. Chudzinski I was hurt before this game. Gore has added another 77 rushing touchdowns on his way into the NFL record books. And so much more. Additional contributors included future stars Kellen Winslow II, Sean Taylor, Antrel Rolle, Vernon Carey, and Rocky McIntosh. Truthfully, the players and coaches felt relief that they had reached the goal they set for themselves 12 months earlier. It was one of those games. Former Miami Dolphin and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jason Taylor and defensive ends coach Rod Wright talk on the field during practice at Greentree . "This was happening in the BCS era, so no one really had an edge from a College Football Playoff perspective that all the great talent is going to go to those participants, which is kind of what's going on with Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State right now. They were All-Pro NFL players," said Rick Neuheisel, who was Washington coach at the time. Some of our most beloved Canes shared a meeting room in 2001. Fitzgerald "It was literally, you're doing the same thing that I'm doing. They knew he was the straw that stirred the drink. A lot of us were going into our senior year, and we didn't want to have to risk playing a little slower, still trying to learn something. How many Miami Hurricanes are in the NFL Hall of Fame? We all felt that that Sugar Bowl game against Florida, we knew that we should have been playing for a national title. The nearly hundred-year-old Hurricanes pennant once waved by a member of Miami's original freshman class. 2 behind Florida -- the team they dismantled in the Sugar Bowl to close out the 2000 season. For whatever reason, we always played them close in my four years there. Rumph Sure enough, they run a slant, I go in to pick it off, and I spread my fingertips, and had my hands below my knee. (gofundme.com) We knew what we had on paper, but to see how we were dominating, and the energy we produced in such a hostile environment, it was like, "OK, wow, we are who we think we are.". The Pro Football Hall of Fame class will be inducted during NFL Honors, which airs on ABC at 9 p.m. Coker Meanwhile, the stifling Miami defense shut down Heisman-winner Eric Crouch and the Huskers vaunted option offense, holding Nebraska 200 yards below its season average. The deck was loaded. You're gonna communicate and you're gonna stay together, or you've got to go. It happened twice in the Coliseum. / Whats taking Mario so long to find Coaches? 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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. Walters ran ten yards with the ball before teammate Ed Reed grabbed the ball out of his hands at around the Miami 20-yard line and raced the remaining 80-yards for a touchdown. Miami didn't have that edge. All rights reserved With a 30-0 halftime Miami lead, Coker pulled his starters and Miami cruised in the second half to a 337 victory. Read more about our data coverage. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. As the 2001 Miami Hurricanes celebrated a fifth national championship in the . They've never seen an atmosphere like that. 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. In 2002, Miami again played for a national title, losing in overtime to Ohio State. McGahee also was a consensus All-American in 2002. It was grit and toughness for him, and it was important he was in there the whole time. It was the Hurricanes' 76th season of football and 11th as a member of the Big East Conference. I just remember on that play that the offensive lineman tried to cut my knees, and I remember finally getting it right. Rumph We'd been through so much pain. The dominance of the team during its 2001 campaign combined with the legacy those players left -- both in college and the pros -- makes a strong argument that this is the best college football team ever assembled. Frank Gore was also on the 2001 national title Hurricanes roster. C Brett Romberg When I caught it, I wasn't thinking about running it back for a touchdown. 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. That's how comical it became. They were invited to the Rose Bowl, which served as the BCS National Championship Game, and defeated Nebraska, 3714, to win the school's 5th national championship. "I said, 'Our difference is, we were gonna try to outhit you.' It was always tough. We felt very disrespected, for the simple fact that we were coming into the season highly ranked, and they had a White Out game. It was a program that was meant to sink or swim guys. It was like, this is going to be outstanding for the next three, four, five years. 14, proved to be a formidable opponent. Its game at Florida State on Oct. 13 took on even greater meaning after what happened in 2000. Their closest test came on road against the Boston College Eagles in an 18-7 victory, that included a late Ed Reed-Matt Walters pick-six. It really set the stage -- to not only win but be a dominant team like we were. There's going to be some tremendous 3- or 4-yard runs. Gore has been named to five Pro Bowl rosters and has ran for 14,028 yards over his career. Still, the resilient Hokies had one more chance to win the game late, taking possession of the ball at midfield and needing only a field goal to take the lead. How about 2013 Florida State, a team so loaded with talent all 22 of its offensive and defensive starters that year ended up on an NFL roster? I thought to myself, "Oh my gosh, do not drop this." A total of 38 . "Because you're trying to recruit the foundation of what's to come for the next four years. Record: 12-0 (1st of 117) (Schedule & Results), Bowl Game: Won Rose Bowl 37-14 versus Nebraska. The scholarship recipient is chosen each year by the football coaches . 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. Our team was beat up and tired and the kids wanted to go home for Thanksgiving, and now we're having to go to Miami, a team that I knew was gonna want revenge. Williams University of Miami 2023. Sterling, sadly, had. 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