List of FIU Panthers head football coaches

Butch Davis the current head coach of the Panthers.

The FIU Panthers college football team represents Florida International University (FIU) in the East Division of Conference USA (CUSA). The Panthers compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 3 head coaches since it began play during the 2002 season.

The team has played more than 170 games over 14 seasons. In that time, only one Head Coach has led the Panthers to postseason bowl games: Mario Cristobal. FIU has a 1-1 record in two bowl games in which they have competed: the 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl and the 2011 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl.[1] The Panthers have been Co-Conference Champions once: in 2010 by Cristobal, during the Panther’s time in the Sun Belt Conference.

Cristobal spent the most seasons (6) as the Panther’s head coach and took the program to its only bowl games. The highest winning percentage by any coach is by Ron Cooper, who was an interim coach during the 2016 season, who finished the season 4-4, following the firing of former Head Coach Ron Turner.

The lowest winning percentage for any coach is Ron Turner, who has gone 10-30 (.250) in four seasons.

The current head coach of the Panthers will be Butch Davis, who was hired in November 2016.[2] Davis is the former Miami and North Carolina head coach and has been an college football analyst for ESPN.

Head coaches

Key

Key to symbols in coaches list
General Overall Conference Postseason[A 1]
No. Order of coaches[A 2] GC Games coached CW Conference wins PW Postseason wins
DC Division championships OW Overall wins CL Conference losses PL Postseason losses
CC Conference championships OL Overall losses CT Conference ties PT Postseason ties
NC National championships OT Overall ties[A 3] C% Conference winning percentage
dagger Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame O% Overall winning percentage[A 4]

List of head coaches

List of head football coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards[A 5]
No. Name Term GC OW OL O% CW CL C% PW PL DC
[A 6]		 CC NC
1 Don Strock 2002–2006 56 15 41 .268 3 11 .214 0 0 — 0 0
2 Mario Cristobal 2007–2012 74 27 47 .365 20 26 .435 1 1 — 1 0
3 Ron Turner 2013–2016 40 10 30 .250 7 17 .292 0 0 0 0 0
4 Ron Cooper 2016 8 4 4 .500 4 4 .500 0 0 0 0 0
5 Butch Davis 2017 0 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0

Notes

  1. ↑ Although the first Rose Bowl Game was played in 1902, it has been continuously played since the 1916 game, and is recognized as the oldest bowl game by the NCAA. "—" indicates any season prior to 1916 when postseason games were not played.[3]
  2. ↑ A running total of the number of head coaches, with coaches who served separate tenures being counted only once. Interim head coaches are represented with "Int" and are not counted in the running total. "—" indicates the team played but either without a coach or no coach is on record. "X" indicates an interim year without play.
  3. ↑ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[4]
  4. ↑ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[5]
  5. ↑ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2016 college football season.
  6. ↑ FIU has competed as a member of the East Division of the CUSA.

References

  1. ↑ Florida International Golden Panthers vs. Marshall Thundering Herd box score. ESPN. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
  2. ↑ "Butch Davis Named Head Coach of FIU Football". FIU Sports. November 15, 2016. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived from the original on August 22, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
  4. ↑ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on November 24, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
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