National Award Winners: No. 44 Dan Morgan
2000 BEDNARIK AWARD WINNER
2000 NAGURSKI TROPHY WINNER
2000 BUTKUS AWARD WINNER
• As a junior in 1999, produced one of the greatest seasons any defensive player has had at the University of Miami as he made 139 tackles.Â
• A starter since his true freshman season, came to Miami as a fullback, but during freshman two-a-days in 1997 shined at linebacker.Â
• Team’s leading tackler in 2000 (his third time to lead UM in tackles) with 138.
• Set a school record with 42 consecutive starts and became the first player in the school’s history to have 100 or more tackles in each of his four seasons.
• All-time career tackles leader at Miami with 512, breaking the BIG EAST record along the way.
• Named a consensus first-team All-American and became the first player in college football history to win the Butkus, Nagurski and Bednarik awards in the same season.
• Named Football News National Defensive Player of the Year, an honor he also won on the conference level as voted on by the league’s head coaches.
Morgan’s 2000 Game-By-Game Stats
| Opponent | UT | AT | TT | TFL | QBS | FF | FR | Int | QBH | PBU |
| McNeese St. | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
| at Washington | 13 | 7 | 20 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 1-11 | 0 | 3 |
| at W. Virginia | 9 | 7 | 16 | 2-5 | 2-5 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 |
| at Rutgers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida State | 14 | 3 | 17 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 1 | 0-0 | 1-23 | 1 | 1 |
| at Temple | 13 | 4 | 17 | 2-9 | 1-7 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
| Louisiana Tech | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 |
| Virginia Tech | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pittsburgh | 11 | 9 | 20 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
| at Syracuse | 6 | 4 | 10 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
| Boston College | 11 | 4 | 15 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 90 | 48 | 138 | 15-42 | 15-42 | 1 | 2-0 | 2-34 | 5 | 5 |
MIAMI HURRICANES IN BUTKUS AWARD VOTING
| Year | Player | Place |
| 2000 | Dan Morgan, MLB | 1st |
| 1995 | Ray Lewis, MLB | 2nd |
| 1992 | Micheal Barrow, MLB | finalist |
| 1990 | Maurice Crum, MLB | finalist |
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