2011 Miami Hurricanes football team
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The 2011 Miami Hurricanes football team represents the University of Miami
during the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season
. The Hurricanes are led by first year head coach Al Golden and play their home games at Sun Life Stadium. They are members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference
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The team posted a 6-6 record in 2011, only the third time since 1979 that the program had failed to register a winning record.
, a convicted Ponzi schemer
serving a 20-year prison sentence. The players suspended were Jacory Harris
(one game), Sean Spence
(one game), Travis Benjamin (one game), Marcus Forston
(one game), Adewale Ojomo (one game), Ray-Ray Armstrong
(four games), Dyron Dye (four games), and Olivier Vernon (six games).
On November 20, Miami announced it was withdrawing from bowl consideration due to an ongoing NCAA investigation into the Shapiro affair.
and Jethro Franklin
joined Al Golden from his Temple coaching staff.
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
during the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season
2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season
The 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level, began on Thursday, September 1, 2011...
. The Hurricanes are led by first year head coach Al Golden and play their home games at Sun Life Stadium. They are members of the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
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The team posted a 6-6 record in 2011, only the third time since 1979 that the program had failed to register a winning record.
Schedule
Scandal
The Hurricanes faced adversity even before the first down of football as twelve players were forced to pay restitution and eight players were suspended for accepting money and gifts from former booster Nevin ShapiroNevin Shapiro
Nevin Shapiro is a former University of Miami football booster who is currently imprisoned for orchestrating a $930 million Ponzi scheme. According to interviews, he engaged in rampant violations of NCAA rules over eight years as a booster for University of Miami athletes...
, a convicted Ponzi schemer
Ponzi scheme
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation...
serving a 20-year prison sentence. The players suspended were Jacory Harris
Jacory Harris
Jacory Sherrod Harris is an American football quarterback, in very loose terms, who played for the University of Miami Hurricanes....
(one game), Sean Spence
Sean Spence
Sean Spence is an American football linebacker at the University of Miami. He is in his senior year. Spence was named 2008 Atlantic Coast Conference Defensive Rookie of the Year.-High school career:...
(one game), Travis Benjamin (one game), Marcus Forston
Marcus Forston
Marcus Forston is an American football defensive tackle. He currently attends the University of Miami in his junior year. Forston was considered one of the best defensive tackles coming out of high school in 2008, and has been compared to Warren Sapp...
(one game), Adewale Ojomo (one game), Ray-Ray Armstrong
Ray-Ray Armstrong
Ray-Ray Armstrong is an American football safety for the Miami Hurricanes. Armstrong is considered one of the best safeties in country and is considered a future high NFL Draft pick.-Early years:...
(four games), Dyron Dye (four games), and Olivier Vernon (six games).
On November 20, Miami announced it was withdrawing from bowl consideration due to an ongoing NCAA investigation into the Shapiro affair.
Roster
Coaching staff
Mark D'OnofrioMark D'Onofrio
Mark D'Onofrio is the Defensive Coordinator at the University of Miami and a former linebacker in the National Football League.-Biography:D'Onofrio was born Mark Emil D'Onofrio on March 17, 1969 in North Bergen, New Jersey. He is married with two children....
and Jethro Franklin
Jethro Franklin
Jethro Franklin is the defensive line coach for the University of Miami Hurricanes football team.-Playing career:...
joined Al Golden from his Temple coaching staff.