List of FIU Panthers head football coaches
The FIU Panthers college football team represents Florida International University (FIU) in the East Division of Conference USA (C-USA). The Panthers compete as part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The program has had 4 full-time head coaches since it began play during the 2002 season.
The team has played more than 2000 games over 17 seasons. In that time, only two Head Coaches have led the Panthers to postseason bowl games: Mario Cristobal and Butch Davis. FIU has a 2-2 record in four bowl games in which they have competed. 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 until Davis. The highest winning percentage by any coach is by Butch Davis, head coach since the 2017 season, who is 17-9 in two seasons with the Panthers.
The lowest winning percentage for any coach is Ron Turner, who went 10-30 (.250) in four seasons.
The current head coach of the Panthers will be Butch Davis, who was hired in November 2016.[1] Davis is the former Miami and North Carolina head coach and has been an college football analyst for ESPN.
Head coaches
Key
| 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 | ||
| † | Elected to the College Football Hall of Fame | O% | Overall winning percentage[A 4] | ||||
List of head coaches
| 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 | 0.268 | 3 | 11 | 0.214 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Mario Cristobal | 2007–2012 | 74 | 27 | 47 | 0.365 | 20 | 26 | 0.435 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Ron Turner | 2013–2016 | 40 | 10 | 30 | 0.250 | 7 | 17 | 0.292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Ron Cooper | 2016 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0.500 | 4 | 4 | 0.500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Butch Davis | 2017-present | 26 | 17 | 9 | 0.653 | 11 | 5 | 0.687 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Notes
- ^ 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.[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.
- ^ Overtime rules in college football were introduced in 1996, making ties impossible in the period since.[3]
- ^ When computing the win–loss percentage, a tie counts as half a win and half a loss.[4]
- ^ Statistics correct as of the end of the 2016 college football season.
- ^ FIU has competed as a member of the East Division of the CUSA.
References
- ^ "Butch Davis Named Head Coach of FIU Football". FIU Sports. November 15, 2016. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
- ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2011). Bowl/All-Star Game Records (PDF). Indianapolis, Indiana: NCAA. pp. 5–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2011.
- ^ Whiteside, Kelly (August 25, 2006). "Overtime system still excites coaches". USA Today. McLean, Virginia. Archived from the original on September 6, 2010. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
- ^ Finder, Chuck (September 6, 1987). "Big plays help Paterno to 200th". The New York Times. New York City. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved October 22, 2009.