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RaceBannon

Great story on the 2001 Canes with some free pub for Washington. Good pub for our last great team in 2000 and the payback at the Orange Bowl in 2001. "Their AD said they would never play us again we beat them so bad"

Thanks Babs

foxsports.com/college-football/story/miami-hurricanes-pursuit-of-perfection-in-2001-an-oral-history-091714

TTJ

Great article.

PostGameOrangeSlices

TTJ said:

Great article.

This, thanks for posting that Race

huskyhooligan

Effin Babs. My conspiracy theory is that she was on the $C dime the whole time. Prove me wrong! ha ha

creepycoug

I don't know why you give me that link.

tl;dr actually my ADD kicked in a little and really couldn't read all of it, but I liked this:

Soldinger: Portis is probably right. If we had gotten him the ball earlier, we might've won.

how many times have I said that? you know. many learned Cane fans, such as me, remember Butch as a hell of a recruiter and talent evaluator (duh), but also as an average game day coach. although really he had good RBs playing in front of Portis in Davenport and Jackson, so that may not be fair - who would really know that a sophomore backup would come in and light Washington up? probably nobody.

I see what you're doing here Race. you're just setting me up to be that much more miserable this weekend. fuck.

I was at that game, and the description is pretty spot on. Dan Morgan was a great fucking linebacker, but they were better at that position overall the next year when Vilma developed with DJ Williams to go with Chris Campbell. Vilma just fucking manhandled Nebraska in the Rose like a reservation whore. and though they lost Damione Lewis, who was a great pass rusher from the interior, the D line overall got better the next year too with the emergence of Wilfork and McDougle.

bottom line is that the 2000 team was loaded and graduated some superstars, but the 2001 starting 22 was better than the 2000 starting 22.

RaceBannon

I actually am a long time Cane fan. ESPN the early days used the local Howard Schnellberger Show as filler when Howard was building the empire pre 1983. For some reason I got hooked on this shitty football team trying to become someone.

I made the mistake of going to dinner with some chick who I quickly realized wasn't going to fuck me during the Orange Bowl against Nebraska. I figured like everyone else that the Huskers would boat race Bernie and the boys. I got home in time to see the failed two point conversion.

I rank that 2000 win as probably the best team I have ever seen UW beat. Nebraska and Michigan in 1991 were bigger wins, but those were mediocre teams. To actually witness the Dawgs beat the Canes at Husky Stadium was pretty fucking cool. I think the 2000 Canes were better than the 1994 Canes.

The sad thing is that the 2000-2002 Canes only got one ring. Losing to Ohio State was inexcusable. And painful to watch.

The article was correct in pointing out that Husky Stadium beat the Canes that day. That 21-3 jump out was the ball game. I remember thinking exactly what Rick said, can the clock run out before these guys score another one on us

WilburHooksHands

RaceBannon said:

I remember thinking exactly what Rick said, can the clock run out before these guys score another one on us

One of the hardest things for me is separating Husky football coach Rick with just Rick. I hate the guy as a recruiter and program developer, but I love the guy as everything else.

edit: and that includes coaching the actual football games, he was awesome at that if he had a good team to work with.

RoadDawg55

Great article. I really like the Miami program and wish they were dominant again. They churned out great NFL talent and the teams were bad ass. The 2001 team is the best team I have ever seen. The 2004 USC team is the only team that's even remotely close. That was a bullshit PI call that fucked Miami in 2002. They are probably my second favorite program. It's too bad they have fucked up their last two coaching hires.

Miami is kind of hypocrites for the whining about FSU. UW beat Miami, yet they don't acknowledge that. I fully get Miami's thinking that they should have won that game and were the better team, but that's irrelevant. When they played, they lost. It's not like UW's one loss was to a bad team either. Oregon was a top 10 team that beat Texas in the Holiday Bowl. I would assume the Pac 10 was stronger than the Big East as well. It's too fucking bad there wasn't a playoff to settle it. That would have sucked.

TL, DR: Cry me a fucking river Miami. UW had just as much right to be upset.

puppylove_sugarsteel

Thanks to the weaz for destroyin g our running game tradition. Alexis was the worst tailback, in terms of vision and escapability, than any back dating back 4 decades. Horrible. Mo Shaw ran a close second.

creepycoug

RoadDawg55 said:

Great article. I really like the Miami program and wish they were dominant again. They churned out great NFL talent and the teams were bad ass. The 2001 team is the best team I have ever seen. The 2004 USC team is the only team that's even remotely close. That was a bullshit PI call that fucked Miami in 2002. They are probably my second favorite program. It's too bad they have fucked up their last two coaching hires.

Miami is kind of hypocrites for the whining about FSU. UW beat Miami, yet they don't acknowledge that.

TL, DR: Cry me a fucking river Miami. UW had just as much right to be upset.

agreed. though I thought Miami was the most dangerous team in the nation at the end of the season and would have boat raced Oklahoma they had absolutely no claim to be in the title game, and certainly not ahead of Washington. and I completely agree: the Pac 10 was tougher and Washington's loss was to a quality Oregon team. Miami always made up for the Big East schedule with high quality OOC, but I agree with you overall about the argument. it was a loser for Miami that year. head to head, no matter what, trumps everything.

creepycoug

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Thanks to the weaz for destroyin g our running game tradition. Alexis was the worst tailback, in terms of vision and escapability, than any back dating back 4 decades. Horrible. Mo Shaw ran a close second.

wouldn't go that far. the problem with Alexis was that he was more of a classic I back. I think Rich Alexis would have done well on any of those Nebraska option I formation offenses ... north and south power/speed guys who need a lane. they don't often transition well to offenses that make them run between the tackles.

you're also bitching about a kid who, as freshman, broke open the fucking game against Miami with his TD run ... a game which, as others have observed, goes down as one of Washington's best ever. Of course Tui was the catalyst on that play and in that game, but give Rich some credit.

4 decades? i can probably think of some.

whlinder

RaceBannon said:

I rank that 2000 win as probably the best team I have ever seen UW beat. Nebraska and Michigan in 1991 were bigger wins, but those were mediocre teams. To actually witness the Dawgs beat the Canes at Husky Stadium was pretty fucking cool. I think the 2000 Canes were better than the 1994 Canes.

The sad thing is that the 2000-2002 Canes only got one ring. Losing to Ohio State was inexcusable. And painful to watch.

The article was correct in pointing out that Husky Stadium beat the Canes that day. That 21-3 jump out was the ball game. I remember thinking exactly what Rick said, can the clock run out before these guys score another one on us

Case fucking closed.

dnc

RaceBannon said:

I actually am a long time Cane fan. ESPN the early days used the local Howard Schnellberger Show as filler when Howard was building the empire pre 1983. For some reason I got hooked on this shitty football team trying to become someone.

I made the mistake of going to dinner with some chick who I quickly realized wasn't going to fuck me during the Orange Bowl against Nebraska. I figured like everyone else that the Huskers would boat race Bernie and the boys. I got home in time to see the failed two point conversion.

I rank that 2000 win as probably the best team I have ever seen UW beat. Nebraska and Michigan in 1991 were bigger wins, but those were mediocre teams. To actually witness the Dawgs beat the Canes at Husky Stadium was pretty fucking cool. I think the 2000 Canes were better than the 1994 Canes.

The sad thing is that the 2000-2002 Canes only got one ring. Losing to Ohio State was inexcusable. And painful to watch.

The article was correct in pointing out that Husky Stadium beat the Canes that day. That 21-3 jump out was the ball game. I remember thinking exactly what Rick said, can the clock run out before these guys score another one on us

How'd they compare to 84 OU Grandpa Race?

RaceBannon

dnc said:

RaceBannon said:

I actually am a long time Cane fan. ESPN the early days used the local Howard Schnellberger Show as filler when Howard was building the empire pre 1983. For some reason I got hooked on this shitty football team trying to become someone.

I made the mistake of going to dinner with some chick who I quickly realized wasn't going to fuck me during the Orange Bowl against Nebraska. I figured like everyone else that the Huskers would boat race Bernie and the boys. I got home in time to see the failed two point conversion.

I rank that 2000 win as probably the best team I have ever seen UW beat. Nebraska and Michigan in 1991 were bigger wins, but those were mediocre teams. To actually witness the Dawgs beat the Canes at Husky Stadium was pretty fucking cool. I think the 2000 Canes were better than the 1994 Canes.

The sad thing is that the 2000-2002 Canes only got one ring. Losing to Ohio State was inexcusable. And painful to watch.

The article was correct in pointing out that Husky Stadium beat the Canes that day. That 21-3 jump out was the ball game. I remember thinking exactly what Rick said, can the clock run out before these guys score another one on us

How'd they compare to 84 OU Grandpa Race?

Miami owned Switzer

PurpleJ

I don't remember much about that season, other than being shocked that we beat Miami and even more shocked when we blew it against Oregon. I agree that Miami would have beaten Oklahoma if they had played for the championship. Those teams were absurdly talented. You could argue all day about hypothetical match ups, though.

WilburHooksHands

PurpleJ said:

I don't remember much about that season, other than being shocked that we beat Miami and even more shocked when we blew it against Oregon. I agree that Miami would have beaten Oklahoma if they had played for the championship. Those teams were absurdly talented. You could argue all day about hypothetical match ups, though.

But what about the '91 DAWGS??!!?!11

Fire_Marshall_Bill

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Thanks to the weaz for destroyin g our running game tradition. Alexis was the worst tailback, in terms of vision and escapability, than any back dating back 4 decades. Horrible. Mo Shaw ran a close second.

Our running gayme was fucking dreck from '98 through about '08. I actually met Kenny James in probably April or May of 2004 because this Doog friend of mine took a jock sociology class with him and I went along after being begged, being literally unemployed and living in a basement (I did actually rent it though). Anyhow, the guy was shorter than me (5' 9 3/4" or some shit) and just didn't strike me as looking like a D 1A fball player. Slick Rick was responsible for at least 40% of that era's poor rb play, if not more. Sorry, back to Canes worship.

dnc

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Thanks to the weaz for destroyin g our running game tradition. Alexis was the worst tailback, in terms of vision and escapability, than any back dating back 4 decades. Horrible. Mo Shaw ran a close second.

Our running gayme was fucking dreck from '98 through about '08. I actually met Kenny James in probably April or May of 2004 because this Doog friend of mine took a jock sociology class with him and I went along after being begged, being literally unemployed and living in a basement (I did actually rent it though). Anyhow, the guy was shorter than me (5' 9 3/4" or some shit) and just didn't strike me as looking like a D 1A fball player. Slick Rick was responsible for at least 40% of that, if not more. Sorry, back to Canes worship.

NipNap Kauffman was shorter than that.

CaptainPJ

RaceBannon said:

The article was correct in pointing out that Husky Stadium beat the Canes that day. That 21-3 jump out was the ball game. I remember thinking exactly what Rick said, can the clock run out before these guys score another one on us

This
I rented a catered tent in the East Endzone before the game to host a "medically relevant" presentation from a UW Doc.

I was shocked it was available, and how cheap it was, including 40 tix.

No one thought we stood a chance in that game.

Say what you want about Neu, but for every fault, he had some great fucking wins.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

dnc said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

puppylove_sugarsteel said:

Thanks to the weaz for destroyin g our running game tradition. Alexis was the worst tailback, in terms of vision and escapability, than any back dating back 4 decades. Horrible. Mo Shaw ran a close second.

Our running gayme was fucking dreck from '98 through about '08. I actually met Kenny James in probably April or May of 2004 because this Doog friend of mine took a jock sociology class with him and I went along after being begged, being literally unemployed and living in a basement (I did actually rent it though). Anyhow, the guy was shorter than me (5' 9 3/4" or some shit) and just didn't strike me as looking like a D 1A fball player. Slick Rick was responsible for at least 40% of that, if not more. Sorry, back to Canes worship.

NipNap Kauffman was shorter than that.

And Emmitt Smith, Thurman Thomas, and Barry fucking Sanders. They were awesome football players too. None of those guys at Warshington at that time were anywhere near All-Pac Ten

PurpleJ

WilburHooksHands said:

PurpleJ said:

I don't remember much about that season, other than being shocked that we beat Miami and even more shocked when we blew it against Oregon. I agree that Miami would have beaten Oklahoma if they had played for the championship. Those teams were absurdly talented. You could argue all day about hypothetical match ups, though.

But what about the '91 DAWGS??!!?!11

95 Nebraska CLASSY PROGRAM OSBORNE!!!!111!