ELITE EIGHT
March Madness CaneSport Style: Elite Eight Game 1
SWEET 16
March Madness CaneSport Style: Sweet 16 Game 1
March Madness CaneSport Style: Sweet 16 Game 2
March Madness CaneSport Style: Sweet 16 Game 3
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ROUND OF 32
March Madness CaneSport Style: Round of 32, Games 1-2
March Madness CaneSport Style: Round of 32, Games 3-4
March Madness CaneSport Style: Round of 32, Games 5-6
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ROUND OF 64
March Madness CaneSport Style: Round 1, Games 1-4
March Madness CaneSport Style: Round 1, Games 5-8
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March Madness CaneSport Style: Round 1, Games 13-16
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We are getting down to it.
The Elite Eight is here, with the Final Four around the corner.
No, we couldn't let the coronavirus take away March Madness.
So this is CaneSport's tournament, Miami Hurricane style.
The first three rounds are now over.
We've whittled down from a field of 64, with each aiming to be the national champion of Hurricane lore.
To determine a champion the subscribers at CaneSport.com have the voting power on the message boards of CaneSport.com.
Who or what will emerge as the greatest Cane of all?
The coming days will provide the answer.
So get your votes in in the threads in the War Room message board and may the winners advance!
ELITE EIGHT, GAME 2. 2001 MIAMI HURRICANES VS. HOWARD SCHNELLENBERGER: All-time great Cane team vs. all-time great Cane coach, who wins?
VOTING HISTORY
2001 Miami Hurricanes defeated 1986 Miami Hurricanes in Round 1 with 90.1 percent of the vote
2001 Miami Hurricanes defeated Antrel Rolle in Round 2 with 96.6 percent of the vote
2001 Miami Hurricanes defeated Jimmy Johnson in the Sweet 16 with 58.2 percent of the vote
Schnellenberger defeated Butch Davis in Round 1 with 84.3 percent of the vote
Schnellenberger defeated Willis McGahee in the Sweet 16 with 89.6 percent of the vote
THE CASE FOR THE 2001 MIAMI HURRICANES: Some call the 2001 Miami Hurricanes team the greatest in college football history. Not only did that team win every game, including a 37-14 blowout Rose Bowl win against No. 4 Nebraska, but the level of NFL talent on the roster was absurd. There were 38 players eventually drafted off that team, and 17 were first rounders (six taken in the first round of the 2004 draft). Among the personnel: WR Andre Johnson, S Seam Taylor, TE Kellen Winslow, OL Bryant McKinnie, DB Antrel Rolle, LB Jon Vilma, TE Jeremy Shockey, DB Phillip Buchanan, LB DJ Williams, OL Vernon Carey, DT Vince Wilfork, RB Willis McGahee, S Ed Reed, CB Mike Rumph, RB Clinton Portis, WR Roscoe Parrish, RB Frank Gore and QB Ken Dorsey. The team averaged 42.6 points while giving up just 9.75 points. The defensive domination was to the point that UM allowed only 13 touchdowns and scored eight of its own on turnovers. Among the wins: 49-27 against No. 14 FSU, 65-7 over No. 12 Washington and 59-0 against No. 14 Syracuse.
THE CASE FOR SCHNELLENBERGER: The coach of UM's first national championship team, Schnellenberger was responsible for the turnaround in UM football from 5-6 in 1979 to 11-1 and a national championship in 1983. He had a 41-16 coaching record at Miami and brought the Canes into the national spotlight with upset victories over Penn Sate in 1979 and 1981 and led Miami to two bowl victories: the 1981 Peach Bowl, 20-10 over Virginia Tech, and the 1984 Orange Bowl, 31-30 over No. 1 ranked Nebraska. Schnellenberger's teams went 25-2 at the Orange Bowl and had 14 network television appearances in five years after only one appearance the previous five seasons. He left Miami after the 1983 season and would later coach at Louisville, Oklahoma and Florida Atlantic University before retiring in 2011, with 158 victories across 27 seasons at the four different programs, and a perfect (6-0) bowl record.
