“The issues that we have, there’s no fix for,” Davis said during his postgame press conference following the Old Dominion loss in Nov. Questioning whether or not FIU football should close up shop is about a lack of resources, a lack of progress and quite possibly a lack of conference.
This is nothing like Sports Illustrated suggesting the Miami Hurricanes shut down football for moral reasons or other nonsense of that nature. With Davis instantly bringing success to the program but leaving after a disastrous season that saw 21 of 85 scholarship players either suffer season-ending injuries or leave the team for various reasons, is there a reason for the program to keep going any further? The only other coach to succeed in FIU’s 20-year history is Mario Cristobal, who oversaw the Panthers’ only conference championship in 2010. FIU went to three straight bowl games for the first time in school history and even defeated the Hurricanes at the site of the old Orange Bowl in 2019. When he arrived in 2017 to replace Ron Turner, the Panthers immediately started winning. Their decision to post the job has resulted in a major negative impact on the football program and our ability to recruit and retain players.”ĭavis is as good as it gets for FIU, a school forever in the shadow of the University of Miami. The administration has been sabotaging the program. “You can imagine the players’ reaction when a head coach’s job was posted online. “This year has been a nightmare,” Davis told The Action Network. The school even posted the coaching job opening online five games into the season. The coaching staff was not allowed to go on the road recruiting the past two years because of financial reasons and the COVID-19 pandemic. The shoulder pads and uniforms were a decade old. He also went scorched earth on just how little support the school gave the program throughout his tenure, even to the point of “sabotage.” It’s another thing to learn the extent of how much of a failing program it really is.īutch Davis told Brett McMurphy of The Action Network that he will be out as FIU coach once his contract expires on Dec.
It’s one thing for a football coach to move on from a program that has fallen off with little sign of turning around.
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