Alex Gardner

Panthers’ football one win shy of reaching conference championship

By Brett Shweky/Sports Director     With a potential Conference USA title berth on the line for the FIU Panthers on Saturday, Nov. 24 against Marshall, the team must continue to ride their dynamic aerial assault behind quarterback James Morgan to accomplish their postseason aspirations. The Panthers (8-3, 6-1 C-USA) enter the high-noon East Division […]

Panthers’ running back corps primed to be offensive catalyst

By Brett Shweky/Sports Director   With an offense that lost their starting quarterback, running back, wide receiver, left guard, and tight end, the Panthers will be looking to rely on the depth of their rushing game to compensate for the departures. “Losing Alex Gardner, who was the leading rusher, it gives us something to chase […]

Leaving a legacy: Panthers’ football leaves its mark on 2017

By Brett Shweky/Sports Director   Quarterback Alex McGough discussed earlier in the season how for the team to find success this year, they must all work together cohesively and work towards improving each and every week. “The only way we’re going to be able to accomplish this is if we work hard and come together […]

Gasparilla Bowl: FIU vs. Temple preview

By Brett Shweky/Sports Director   The FIU football program will make an appearance in the postseason for the first time since 2011, as the team prepares to take on the Temple Owls in the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl in St. Petersburg, FL on Thursday night. The last time the Panthers managed to attend a […]

FIU receives commitments from top recruits

By Brett Shweky/Sports Director   The recruiting trail has been heating up for FIU football team in recent weeks, as the program has received a spurt of commitments from some highly regarded athletes. Bryn Renner, the Director of Recruiting for FIU, announced through Twitter on Nov. 20 that the 2018 class received yet another commitment […]

Panthers prepare for their homecoming matchup

By Brett Shweky/Sports Director   The FIU Panthers are off to their best start in program history after upsetting the Marshall Thundering Herd, 41-30, this past Saturday in Huntington, West Virginia and are now preparing for their Homecoming game against UTSA on Nov. 4. With an overall record of (5-2) and (3-1) in Conference USA, […]

Panthers’ football has strong start to season

By Brett Shweky/Sports Director   When Butch Davis first accepted the job as the new head coach for the Panthers, the expectations for the football program instantly took a leap forward. With Davis’s exceptional resume, people throughout the college football landscape began to realize that for the first time in FIU football history, the program […]

Running back discusses possible “culture change” to football team

By Brett Shweky/Sports Director   Going into his final season with the Panthers, FIU’s all-time leading rusher Alex Gardner wants to do more than just add onto his own legacy. He wants to help establish the culture change within the FIU football program. “For the culture change to happen, we need to build a foundation. […]

Running back, team captain able to make connections on the field

Jasmine Casimir // Assistant Sports Director The ending to the story Friday night for the Panthers was another loss, but junior running back, Alex Gardner, gave it all he had to fight for a different ending. Gardner was a man with a plan in the Friday night lights game against University of Maryland, who was […]

What now for the FIU football team?

Where do the Panthers go from here? Well there are some positives and negatives sides as they begin their off-season.

FIU’s postseason hopes depend on Western Kentucky Showdown

For the Panthers, this is their final chance at making a bowl game. If the Panthers can use that extra motivation to fuel their play against WKU, an upset is very possible.

FIU Embarrassed in Road Loss to Marshall

It’s bad enough that FIU didn’t score any points, but that doesn’t even tell the whole story of just how inefficient the offense was.
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