The College of Miami is extending one among their biggest honors to a handful of legends who greater than deserve it.
The college introduced Friday morning that Ken Dorsey, Andre Johnson, Bryant McKinnie, and Dan Morgan have all been chosen as a part of the 2025 class to be added to the Ring of Honor.
The quartet signify 4 of the very best gamers from the final nice period of Miami Hurricanes soccer. Throughout the 2000-2002 period, the Canes went 35-2, gained the 2001 nationwide championship, and was – for a number of causes that everybody studying this is aware of – denied the chance to play for one and flat out robbed of one other with a single yellow hankey.
Dorsey is the winningest quarterback in class historical past at 38-2 and is first in profession landing passes (86) and second in profession passing yards (9565). He gained the Maxwell Award in 2001 and completed third within the Heisman Trophy voting that 12 months. He was the co-MVP of the Canes’ 37-14 thrashing of Nebraska within the Rose Bowl.
Talking of the Rose Bowl, Andre Johnson was the opposite co-MVP with 7 catches for 199 yards and a couple of scores. From 2001-02, he tallied 19 receiving touchdowns in 23 video games. He completed with an absurd 19.9 profession yards per catch common. Johnson would go on to place collectively a legendary profession with the Houston Texans, posting 14,875 profession receiving yards and 70 touchdowns on the way in which to enshrinement within the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame in 2024.
Bryant McKinnie was an enormous a part of the varsity’s run to the title in 2001, actually and figuratively. He earned consensus first-team All-American honors because the staff’s beginning left sort out and gained the Outland Trophy given to the nation’s greatest inside lineman. He would go on to be drafted by the Baltimore Ravens within the first spherical of the 2002 NFL Draft and assist the Ravens win their second Tremendous Bowl title in 2012 because the staff’s beginning left sort out throughout their unbelievable postseason run.
Dan Morgan had maybe the best single season by any Hurricanes linebacker in 2000. He had 138 complete tackles, with two video games of 20+ mixed tackles. He earned consensus first-team All-American honors and introduced residence the Dick Butkus, Bronko Nagurski, and Chuck Bednarik Awards. He set the varsity data for many profession complete tackles 532. He would go on to a 7-year profession with the Carolina Panthers, who took him within the first spherical of the 2001 draft.
The quartet – all members of the UM Corridor of Fame – be a part of 27 different former gamers and coaches within the Ring of Honor. The newest inductees got here in 2023, when Dennis Erickson, Chuck Foreman, and Jimmy Johnson have been all added.
Congrats, gents!