And obviously you can point out all the talented guys on the team, but at the time, they weren't the biggest recruits and the five-star guys. In 2000, Miami was shut out of the Orange Bowl BCS National Championship Game by the BCS computers. 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. But I wasn't leaving these guys. Purchase Tickets. ", Rumph 14, proved to be a formidable opponent. Shockey was diving for balls, Ed Reed was coming up full-speed, full-tackle. If we needed to win it on defense, let's go win it on defense. He almost had to come out of the game. 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. ACC Network FAQs Buy Now. Incognito told me at halftime, their coach basically said, "Guys let's just try to keep this thing close," and he said that right in front of the athletic director. Does that mean I didn't root for Vince? We weren't trying to sit here and showcase how fast and athletic we were. Ed Reed, Kenny Dorsey -- they took ownership of everything: Lifting, the workouts in the summer, coming in to watch film. Cleveland scored . When it came time for the 2001 Miami Hurricanes to do their summer workouts, they had one plan in mind: Make it as grueling as possible. Sports. Reed The University of Miami is known for producing excellent professional football players. LB Jonathan Vilma The same standings that kept Miami out of the 2000 national championship game. Behind Portis were Gore, McGahee and Payton with Davenport blocking for. 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. Jump inside of it. Larry coming in, two new coordinators, there were a lot of questions. CB Mike Rumph I have covered more national champions since 2001 Miami that could make their own claim, too. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. The dominance on the field and at the next level was unparalleled throughout the. Baseball. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. "They were the hardest workouts we ever did," cornerback Mike Rumph said. Like Portis, McGahee was a two-time Pro Bowl player and a national champion in 2001. Fundraiser : The UM Sports Hall of Fame Needs U! 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. I never expected it to be a blowout. The way we were able to play, come out firing on all cylinders, was huge. 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. It was the perfect storm for us. Where . I think the next year, we had the mindset that, no matter what happens, we have to take care of business. This was because Miami had lost to No. McGahee didnt have the most prolific career, but the two years he suited up in his orange and green gear were exciting. (From 1937 to 2001, bowl games did not count towards season statistics). As the 2001 Miami Hurricanes celebrated a fifth national championship in the . Vilma played for the 2001 Hurricanes . And I'll never forget seeing the wave of red of Nebraska fans pulling up that seemed like it went for miles. Davenport was also an effective weapon as a receiver catching 35 balls for 3 touchdowns in orange and green. 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. We present them here for purely educational purposes. I'd agreed to a contract before Thanksgiving and my plan was to stay at the University of Miami for decades. A jersey worn by late Hurricanes great Sean Taylor. And so much more. The first series, we line up, they run their option, and for as fast as it went for us in practice, it was like they were in sand. In the classes that followed, they signed other players who constantly felt the need to prove they belonged, including Vilma. They could have scored a touchdown or kicked a field goal and that season has an asterisk next to it. 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. We had 31 scholarships lost. OC Rob Chudzinski Dorsey was also a Heisman finalist, finishing third. Maybe Alabama last year. Players lobbied then-athletic director Paul Dee to elevate offensive coordinator Larry Coker to become head coach. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes are considered by some experts and historians to be the greatest team in college football history. We were just too big, strong and fast, and way too physical. Miami jumped on Virginia Tech early, leading 203 at halftime, and 2610 in the fourth quarter. Sponsorship Opportunities Syracuse and Washington were not exactly nobodies. He was the perfect coach for our team, and his personality just meshed with us. Sponsorship Opportunities / ACC Network FAQs I just remember on that play that the offensive lineman tried to cut my knees, and I remember finally getting it right. 14 Syracuse, 59-0", "No. In interviews with players and coaches, here . They've never seen an atmosphere like that. The motivation of being upset and disappointed, that played a huge role in going to the Sugar Bowl and what we did against Florida to make a statement that we probably should've been the champs. How good is that? But in the moment, as I wrote my recap of that game in January 2002, I was very much like the players. Despite Miami beating Florida State head-to-head that season and being higher ranked in both human polls, it was Florida State, and not Miami, that BCS computers selected to challenge the Oklahoma Sooners for the national championship (Oklahoma would win, 132). Payton didnt enjoy the NFL success as the other running backs but did play for the Tennessee Titans in 2005. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. Johnson was a member of the Hurricanes' most recent national championship team in 2001. Romberg 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. Beamer Rumph I was hurt before this game. And he comes to me when we're in Pasadena, he's like, "Look, don't worry, it's gonna be easier in the game. 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. The Hurricanes were led by first-year head coach Larry Coker and played their home games at the Orange Bowl. These guys were special people. The intelligence he had. It's a fun debate, but at the same time, the competitor in you has no doubt about where we stood. Little did I know that one line would take on a far more powerful meaning in the years to come. They had no chance of winning that game. He was the guy that really knew how to push our buttons, that knew how to challenge us. Dorsey threw four interceptions. When we recruited him in high school, when I actually went to see him in person it was at a basketball game. But there was never any pressure on anybody because they always thought they were going to get it done. Chudzinski, Shannon and defensive backs coach Mark Stoops all went on to head-coaching jobs. Reed 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. But I remain partial to 2001 Miami, and I will let former Miami linebacker Jon Vilma explain why. 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. Given all the challenges associated with the 2020 season, the Crimson Tide could easily make their case. Most people think that UM must have been losing, but no. With BC on the verge of a momentous upset, St. Pierre attempted to pass to receiver Ryan Read at the Miami 2-yard line. Coker Williams They listened to us. / Reed is seen shouting at his teammates, "I'm hurt dog! You're gonna communicate and you're gonna stay together, or you've got to go. Six players were drafted in the. We just knew we were going to win it all. It never seemed like Davenport recovered all of his speed after the knee injury, but he did run for 5.3 yards per carry and 13 touchdowns in his Miami career. We didn't know it was going to come down to a 2-point conversion, but the football Gods were with us on that day, and that kid dropped that ball. Soon, that entire mentality took hold across the entire team. 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. Or write about sports? They thought that we looked like a high school team. / That's how much we've been around each other. Rumph It got a lot of attention. Miami (2001) Michigan (1947) Notre Dame (1947) Oklahoma (1956) How many NFL players came from Miami? We gave up the bowl in 1995. Because we had that extra whatever. I turned around, and the next thing you know, the ball is floating to me in slow motion. We knew what route was coming on that play. Vilma We knew a kid could run and be athletic and we had the blueprint for that. Gore then injured his knee, which would become a tragic and common theme for one of the most universally loved Hurricanes in program history. Coker It didn't really hit me until afterward. That drive starts with where this team started: in 1997, when Miami was at its lowest point as a football program, in the midst of NCAA sanctions that reduced its scholarship total to 15 in that signing class. Truly perfected that.". It was one of those things where it was kind of like inevitable for us, you know what I mean? 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. Walters And whenever you do stuff like that, you believe you're going to win. Two weeks later, the game everybody in the locker room had circled on the calendar had finally arrived: Washington. When he spoke, the team listened. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Fitzgerald 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. Our freshman year, we redshirted, but we would go on road trips and have our jerseys on with sweatpants on the sideline. We never got worried. / Larry Coker knew that once that baton got handed off, he wasn't changing anything. Former coach Butch Davis It was always tough. That's to win the national championship. As did what happened in October, when Miami -- ranked No. Rumph We [were] truly a team. The nearly hundred-year-old Hurricanes pennant once waved by a member of Miami's original freshman class. Our physicality wasn't good. Odds & lines subject to change. 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. He was that father figure we were all afraid to disappoint. Because that whole season, our mind was set on one goal, and you really don't understand how exhausting something can be when you're in pursuit of it. Ed was definitely yelling my name, "Matt! Payton spent time in NFL Europe as well as the Canadian Football League. So can 2016 Clemson, a team I covered throughout the season as an ACC reporter. 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. Miami took a 34-0 halftime lead before cruising to a 37-14 victory, winning the school's fifth national championship. Walters The individual's put on the back burner for your brothers. 1. NFL draft questions for teams in the top 10: Will the Colts trade up? And I did that, and I was like, "Oh, man, that felt good." Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. The thing that was most impressive about that team is that, at any point in time, a younger player could take your position. After a blocked punt returned for a touchdown cut Miami's lead to 26-24, Virginia Tech lined up for a 2-point conversion to tie the game. The 2001 roster was loaded from top to bottom all over the field with names like Bryant McKinnie, Andre Johnson, and Jeremy Shockey as just the tip of the ice berg. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. "I mean, football, no question, I don't think anybody in college football could play with us. I was thinking in my mind, "There's not a lot of time left in this game. 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 always had a good running back and good offensive line, and that is a hostile environment. He made things happen. Men's Sports . The atmosphere was too much for them. A stacked running back room, which featured Frank Gore as the No. ", Flashback Friday pic.twitter.com/qCE9gnzI5E. It was a competitive culture and accountability was huge and he built a family environment. I'm talking about the energy, the heat. I went to a JUCO in Scranton, Penn. 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. You may win one, but we're gonna win 20 of them, and it's not gonna stop.'". Rankings from AP poll. The Houston Texas took him third overall in the 2003 NFL draft. BC was certainly a good team, and it looked like we weren't supposed to win it, but somehow we did. But the number of great players, first-round draft choices and players who got drafted, it's amazing really. They were a good team. Clinton Portis was the main ball carrier during the 2001 national championship run of the Miami Hurricanes. Vilma played for the 2001 Hurricanes; Bush played for the 2004 Trojans, widely regarded as two of the most talented teams ever assembled. A total of 38 . Chudzinski Some of our most beloved Canes shared a meeting room in 2001. They remain the only team to have its first-, second-, third- and fourth-string running backs all later become running backs with a start in the NFL. (gofundme.com) I knew we'd have a good team, but there were a lot of questions because of the coaching changes. Three trades in a chaotic top five, The new law changing service academy football, and the coaches pushing back, Realignment chatter: How the Pac-12 holds the key to it all. There are currently 44 players in the NFL who were brought up at the "U." One NFL team has quite a collection of Miami alumni. The leaders on that team were their best representatives -- doing all interviews asked of them. 1 Hurricanes Stomp West Virginia, 45-3", "No. [6] [7] The Hurricanes have had at least one former player make the Pro Bowl every season since 1985, 31 years in a row. Starters are marked with an asterisk (*). But Ernest Wilford dropped it. In 2002, Miami again played for a national title, losing in overtime to Ohio State. 2 behind Florida -- the team they dismantled in the Sugar Bowl to close out the 2000 season. We knew we were good, and when we got out there and played on Saturdays, the people we went against were not as good as the guys we had on our scout team. / . Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Nobody was too "big time" for anything. When Butch left, we were kinda stuck, and I remember we all went upstairs to talk to Mr. Dee, myself, Bryant McKinnie, Ed Reed, Ken Dorsey and a couple more guys. I remember Ed coming up next to me. 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 . We were confident. I said to our athletic director Barbara Hodges, "Let's reschedule that game for another year," and she was like, "No, We have to go." I helped cover that team, too. In the NFL he ran for 8,474 yards and 65 touchdowns over his career. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. I put my heart in this (expletive) dog. I would have got drafted higher and everything. Prior to the 2006 Rose Bowl, ESPN's SportsCenter ran a special in which the 2005 USC Trojans, led by stars Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush, and LenDale White, were compared with the greatest college teams of the past 50 years, as picked by sports fans voting on ESPN.com, to determine their place in history. After an interception, Ed Reed strips the ball from his teammate and takes it for a touchdown to seal Miami's win vs. Boston College during the 2001 season. How many Miami Hurricanes are in the NFL Hall of Fame? To me, it was special, and I knew it was going to be a tough game. Renew Now , University of Miami 2023. I remember just sitting there like, "Damn.". Former Heisman Trophy Award winner Eric Crouch led the Nebraska Cornhuskers into the Rose Bowl to face the Miami Hurricanes in the 2001 national championship game.. Dorsey and Johnson were named Rose Bowl co-Most Valuable Players. [1] The Hurricanes scored 512 (42.6 points per game) points while yielding only 117 (9.75 points allowed per game). McKinnie Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer Miami needed one more win to clinch an undefeated regular season and a spot in the BCS national championship game: On the road, against Big East rival Virginia Tech. We watched that, perfected that. We were winning, but we left a lot of points on the field. It was like, this is going to be outstanding for the next three, four, five years. 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. Single Game Season Group. Sterling, sadly, had. "Dominate" had started the year before, breaking down the team before going into the locker room right before we came out for the game. I tried to display that my senior year, 'cause I could have left my junior year. It was a program that was meant to sink or swim guys. Schumann returning to Georgia, 'It's the most talented team to ever play': An oral history of the 2001 Miami Hurricanes, Miami's turnover chain set a celebratory standard across the college football landscape. It's one of those weird ones you can't explain, but you've got to get through. 2001 Football Rosters. We were really dialed in on character, on personality traits, do they love football? We spread the ball around to a lot of different guys because, at that time, Andre Johnson wasn't a proven commodity -- or Ethenic Sands or Kevin Beard. We lost the year before, and it kept us out of the national championship game. Imagine that, a team with 38 future NFL picks feeling disrespected. And I felt like I was a chess piece to that. 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 felt very disrespected, for the simple fact that we were coming into the season highly ranked, and they had a White Out game. 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. Rumph Back then, we had availabilities three times a week with players, an open locker room after games and access to practice, too. In all, 17 players from the team became first-round draft picks, and 38 players would be drafted, with stars like Vilma, Reed, Shockey, Wilfork and Portis earning multiple Pro Bowl bids. I mean, he was pretty much automatic for them. We sucked on offense. That off-season, the team resolved to take the matter entirely out of the discretion of the computers by going a perfect 120. 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