It wasn't something given. We just hope that this train just doesn't go off the track. $400,000 was initially raised to endow the scholarship, the only undergraduate award presented by the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame. S Ed Reed Dorsey passed for 362 yards and 3 touchdowns, while wide receiver Andre Johnson caught 7 passes for 199 yards and 2 touchdowns. Chudzinski The 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. "They were the hardest workouts we ever did," cornerback Mike Rumph said. It was a competitive culture and accountability was huge and he built a family environment. Rankings from AP poll. We're intense, pulling up on the buses. [14] Defeating Virginia Tech earned the top-ranked Hurricanes an invitation to the Rose Bowl to take on BCS #2 Nebraska for the national championship. Please consider making a secure donation today by clicking the link below. The 2001 Hurricanes, who are . 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The dominance on the field and at the next level was unparalleled throughout the century-plus existence of our version of the sport. 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. 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. 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. Chudzinski 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. 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. OT Bryant McKinnie Davis left Miami after coaching the Hurricanes to an 11-1 season in 2000. We've got one goal in mind. 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. I told Mike they ought to bronze your knee and put it in the Hall of Fame, because if that didn't happen, we wouldn't have played for a national championship. ", Flashback Friday pic.twitter.com/qCE9gnzI5E. Romberg Johnson was a member of the Hurricanes' most recent national championship team in 2001. A lot of us came back just for this game. OL Joel Rodriguez It was cold. Join our linker program. They were so dialed in on winning a national championship, so focused on leadership, accountability and -- as ridiculous as it sounds now -- proving themselves that it became impossible in the moment to assign this team a place in college football lore. McGahee didnt have the most prolific career, but the two years he suited up in his orange and green gear were exciting. We were winning, but we left a lot of points on the field. At fullback the Canes used two starters in Najeh Davenport and Kyle Cobia. The Hurricane defense picked up the slack by limiting BC to just seven points. It really gave the players and the coaching staff somebody to rally behind. 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. Larry coming in, two new coordinators, there were a lot of questions. After that, there are issues like roster. I will never forget standing on the goal line at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, when Deshaun Watson threw the winning 2-yard touchdown pass to Hunter Renfrow to beat Alabama 35-31 and finish 15-0. They were a good team. OC Rob Chudzinski 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. It is through the support of Hurricane fans and alumni that we are able to make a difference. Eventually producing a record 38 NFL Draft picks, the 2001 Hurricanes are considered by many to be the best college football team of all time.[1][2][3]. He was the perfect coach for our team, and his personality just meshed with us. 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. How good is that? Chudzinski, Shannon and defensive backs coach Mark Stoops all went on to head-coaching jobs. Terms of Service We lost the year before, and it kept us out of the national championship game. But the defense came through, as Mike Rumph, Matt Walters and Reed combined to save the day with one of the most iconic plays in Miami history -- a Walters interception, deflected off Rumph's knee, that ended up in Reed's hands for the defensive score. It was the Hurricanes' 76th season of football and 11th as a member of the Big East Conference. The final hurdle to the Rose Bowl BCS National Championship Game was at Virginia Tech. / 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 put my heart in this (expletive) dog. Gore finished his Miami career with 1,975 yards and 17 touchdowns on the ground. That gave us a chance. We were bad that day. The scholarship recipient is chosen each year by the football coaches . 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. 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. As a coach and players, you don't want to talk about it too much, but it's hard not to. Miami beat opponents by an average of 32.9 points per game, the largest margin in the school's history, and set the NCAA record for largest margin of victory over consecutive ranked teams (1247). Nebraska proved to be no competition for Miami, which opened up a 340 halftime lead en route to a 3714 final score. 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 pushed each other to the limit, and the one thing that separates that group, they were super, super competitive. I don't know how General Custer felt, but I felt like General Custer. 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." 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. Backing up the entire unit was football legacy Jarrett Payton. When I look back at our workouts, and the pressure that we put on each other of not letting each other down, there was so much pressure that I would think twice about skipping a workout, I would think twice about skipping a rep, I would think twice about letting my brother down because there was so much invested into it. The year before, Miami lost at Washington 34-29 -- and that loss ultimately kept the Hurricanes out of the national title game they felt they deserved. All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. That's always what Miami had been about, and what set it apart in my mind. Clinton Portis was the main ball carrier during the 2001 national championship run of the Miami Hurricanes. Additional contributors included future stars Kellen Winslow II, Sean Taylor, Antrel Rolle, Vernon Carey, and Rocky McIntosh. A lot of what we did, Butch should get credit for. We all loved Dorsey, but we knew we had other skill sets and talent on that team. Chudzinski But with a chance to tie the game with another two-point conversion, Virginia Tech sophomore Ernest Wilford dropped a pass in the endzone. Imagine that, a team with 38 future NFL picks feeling disrespected. It has been achieved by the 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Alabama Crimson Tide football teams and the 2012 Wisconsin Badgers football team. "It was literally, you're doing the same thing that I'm doing. You had Phillip Buchanon and Mike Rumph, and you had Antrel Rolle behind them. That was it for Miami. Gambling problem? Williams They should have gone back to high school where they do the running clock. Payton was on campus for five season and waiting his turn to be the starter which came after McGahees departure for the 2003 season. Davenport was also an effective weapon as a receiver catching 35 balls for 3 touchdowns in orange and green. People always say the great teams have to overcome a scare along the way. "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. Rumph 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. Portis ran for 9.923 career yards and 75 touchdowns for Washington and the Denver Broncos while making two Pro Bowl rosters. 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. Media Requests 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. CB Mike Rumph * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). Where . Like Portis, McGahee was a two-time Pro Bowl player and a national champion in 2001. It happened twice in the Coliseum. Every one of those games was a physical, physical affair. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 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). Chudzinski Before we even went to the game, we made "Ballin Boys." Beamer They knew he was the straw that stirred the drink. The consensus among college football analysts is that the 2001 Hurricanes had the most talented roster in history. Gore was a true freshman that got Hurricanes fans excited for the future as he averaged 9.1 yards per carry with 5 touchdowns in his first year on-campus. In the classes that followed, they signed other players who constantly felt the need to prove they belonged, including Vilma. It is only now, with the perspective of history and time that those who suited up in 2001 understand -- and brag about -- what they accomplished in one magical season. But we were fruits of what they'd done. It was a challenge to figure out how to get through the rest of that game. Frank Gore was also on the 2001 national title Hurricanes roster. I'm talking about the energy, the heat. We could see with our own eyes what made that team go. We [were] truly a team. "We really had leaders on that team, and I don't think that can be matched," Reed said. 13. They made sure their offseason workouts were the most intense of their lives. Behind Portis were Gore, McGahee and Payton with Davenport blocking for. He almost had to come out of the game. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. 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. Dorsey Were the backups better than the starter? The Panthers had six first-round draft picks on its '01 roster while Miami's '01 team eventually Less Than 24 Hours to Renew Your Tickets. Football. Gonzalez Coker They had no chance of winning that game. The way we were able to play, come out firing on all cylinders, was huge. 14 Syracuse, 59-0", "No. This was because Miami had lost to No. That's how much we've been around each other. We had it in us, and we knew we had it in us. When you've got guys that are doing workouts, even though it was hell on earth in July in 115 degrees, like you're breathing through a sock, and turn around and just do it again for a teammate because he needs help, that's remarkable. It didn't matter who stood in the way, they didn't stand a chance against us. We want somebody from in-house who knows us, and that's Coach Coker." We were pissed. OT Joaquin Gonzalez 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 . We thought we had a great team, but you don't know until the bullets start flying. I was like, "Coach, call whatever you want, we're gonna win." At that point, euphoric adrenaline runs over you. We wanted to beat them for two reasons, right? Or write about sports? Employment Gore has been named to five Pro Bowl rosters and has ran for 14,028 yards over his career. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. They finished the season 120 overall and 70 in the Big East to finish as conference champion. It was like, this is going to be outstanding for the next three, four, five years. The 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. Washington had beaten Miami the year before, but in 2001, it looked as if the Huskies wanted to be anywhere but playing in prime time in the Orange Bowl as the Hurricanes gleefully kept their foot on the gas to prove a point. 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. If we needed to win it on defense, let's go win it on defense. I say five minutes into the game, they knew in their hearts that they were going to be outclassed and outmatched. / I remember just sitting there like, "Damn.". It was a program that was meant to sink or swim guys. I got you over the top." or thought they had just unlocked legendary status. Though Miami dominated nearly every team it played, it had to survive a close one at Boston College in November. Walters He had the respect of those players. 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