Jorge Corrales/Staff Writer The defending Conference-USA champion Rice Owls visited “The Cage”, Saturday afternoon, and left with a 31-17 victory. The win was their fifth in a row; putting them at 5-3. The loss for the Panthers was their third in a row; putting them at 3-6 overall and 2-3 in C-USA. “Some individuals did […]
By: Jorge Corrales/Staff Writer The Panthers traveled to the Alamodome on Saturday night to take on the University of Texas at San Antonio for the first time in school history, but they were unable to get over .500 as they fell to the Roadrunners, 16-13. Both teams got off to slow starts offensively.The Roadrunners were […]
By: Anthony Calatayud/Contributing Writer Conference USA play opened this weekend for FIU when they traveled to the University of Alabama-Birmingham to play the Blazers. The Panthers, who had opened 1-3 on the year, were looking to right the ship heading into the meat of their conference schedule. They did so in record fashion with a […]
A strong receiving corps can be the key to FIU football’s resurgence next season. The Panthers will presumably return Glenn Coleman and Willis Wright, both of which were ineligible last season due to academic reasons, redshirt sophomore T.J. Lowder, in addition to adding University of Miami decommit Dennis Turner. Coleman and Wright have already expressed […]
A strong receiving corps can be the key to FIU football’s resurgence next season. The Panthers will presumably return Glenn Coleman and Willis Wright, both of which were ineligible last season due to academic reasons, redshirt sophomore T.J. Lowder, in addition to adding University of Miami decommit Dennis Turner. Coleman and Wright have already expressed […]
I’m not sure if anyone has told the offensive players for the Panthers, but they should not strive for being ranked in the 100s when there are only about 120 teams in Division I football. When you look at a team that pulls in ranks of 123 out of 123 possible football programs for total […]
After limping to a 1-6 start to begin the year, the FIU football team looks to salvage what’s left of its season as they welcome Conference USA rival East Carolina. The C-USA leading Pirates come to Miami with a record of 5-2 and a conference record of 3-1 and just having beaten Southern Mississippi by […]
The presence of the biggest name to come out of the football program wasn’t enough to help the Panthers against Louisiana Tech. T.Y. Hilton, arguably the most successful Panther in the NFL to date, was unable to attract fans or even what looked to be some players to FIU Stadium as the Panthers fell to […]
Some think that the only jobs that stay in the family are running a restaurant or keeping a farm. Nowadays, the sidelines of football teams are seeing more and more familiar last names. Family trees have sprouted on-campus as well as in other universities. The patriarch of the “Turner tree” is Head Coach Ron Turner. […]
Wide receiver Rockey Vann had only two catches in the homecoming game against the Blazers of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Those two catches helped him rack up 88 yards for the day. Vann has a total of three receptions for 112 yards, which is an average of just over 37 yards a play. […]
No one, myself included, expected much out of the Panthers football team this season. They have met that expectation, if not exceeded it, with only one win this season. That win, which came at the last second in a game saving play by defensive tackle Isame Faciane, against a team that hasn’t won since I […]
The Panthers returned to campus for their homecoming game in this 2013 season, but that’s all she wrote, as they fell to the Blazers of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A much closer game than earlier games in the season, the Panthers once again hurt themselves and allowed the Blazers to march 70 yards […]
