Head coach Ron Turner

University hosts Youth Football Clinic

Sponsored by the Orange Bowl Committee, the Youth Football Clinic and the Coaches Clinic will be led by FIU football head coach Ron Turner, along with his assistant coaches and student athletes on Saturday, June 28.

End of Spring Football leaves bittersweet taste

That’s it. It is over and done with. Spring football for FIU, that is. Football is over for the Panthers until fall practice resumes in the Summer B semester. This is a semi-bittersweet moment because now there are indeed no college football games until August.

Spring football starts for the Panthers

Football is back to the South Florida college scene as the FIU Panthers returned to Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium on Tuesday, March 19 for the first practice leading towards the 2014 season.

Melvin added by Turner to football coaching staff

Head Coach Ron Turner had only a single season with defensive line coach Andre Patterson before he made the move back to the NFL. Patterson was brought in by new Minnesota Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer to lead his defensive line. That left a vacancy open for the same position at FIU. In came Randy Melvin.

Matchup of single win teams in late season

El Paso, Texas will have a pair of 1-8 teams facing off tomorrow when the Miners host the Panthers. The University of Texas at El Paso football program, led by Head Coach Sean Kugler, are 0-5 in Conference USA play this season, as well as being one of the most recent victims to Heisman incumbent […]

Football near dead last in offensive categories

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 […]

Panther take on conference leading Pirates

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 […]

Panthers fail to produce both on and off the field

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 […]

Family trees sprouting on the sidelines

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. […]

Vann taking advantage of his senior season

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. […]

Panthers emerge from lowly halfway point

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 […]

Panthers go dark in homecoming game

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 […]

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