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Ron Turner -next FIU HC

I moved up here in 2000. I vaguely remember Turner. What I remember most was whomever was coaching UI was fired and replaced by Zook from UF. I live an hour from Champaign and this just isn't much of a football region.  Maybe more Chicago but not central Illinois. There is more of a basketball following in this part of the state than college football.  At lunch, no one ever seems to talk about the UI football game. It seems like Northwestern has much more success than UI.

Zook seemed to have some improvement right away but it didn't last and he was fired.

It's already in Wikipedia that Turner is the next FIU coach.


I don't know but I'm not sure if I would be too excited about Turner.


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This is hillarious.  They fired Cristobal only to end up with a guy with a lousy record as a HC and has been out of college coaching for a decade???  LOL.  The rumor for a few days was that former Purdue coach Danny Hope was the guy (and not a terrible choice if he would have brought Nord with him)…My guess is he backed out because of the mess Garcia has created over there.  You think there is much money to pay a staff now that they are paying about $1 million a year for the next few years to 2 head coaches?

It's pretty obvious that Garcia was convinced he could land Davis.  He probably assumed that Davis could get paid by UNC and FIU at the same time.  My guess is that UNC blocked that and Garcia was left with no fall back plan.  You don't fire Cristobal to get Ron Turner.

This is great news for us.  Any advantage that FIU had built over us the last 3 or 4 years is now completely gone.  We have a much better stadium, we are back in the same conference, and now they have dropped their popular coaching staff for a relative outsider in Ron Turner.   
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Well, if I were an FIU fan Id be in meltdown mode right now too. You go from thinking youre hiring Butch Davis one minute to a guy that no one knows who's biggest claim to fame is his brother.

We would've freaked out too if right after last season, the rumors surface that were hiring Jim Tressel and then we end up with the brother of a head coach that no one knows. We did end up with a coach who's brother is more famous than he is actually.

Good news, this guy isn't a splash hire and Garcia has really set them back this season with the way this was handled. Who knows what the future holds, but for now FIU has been slowed down.
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Owl2Doc said

The FIU fans are pissed. It's hilarious.

How awesome is this? They're so pissed they're taking it out on each other.
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Garcia has totally mismanaged BOTH of their revenue producing sports.  Remember, he also hired Isaiah Thomas.  Now this idiot fires Cristobal over what is claimed as not performing to expectations and then hires this nobody with ZERO recruiting ties in S. Fl AND pays him more than MC.

I think Petey is on the clock.
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SigEp77 said

then hires this nobody with ZERO recruiting ties in S. Fl AND pays him more than MC.

Well in fairness, we said the same about Pelini. He has 0 ties to So Fla. Lucky for him though he had Jared Allen to fall back on

My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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The no Florida ties argument needs to be put to rest…Howard had no high school ties in Florida before U of M, neither did Jimmy Johnson, nor Dennis Erickson.  They only racked up 4 national championships among them.  What you need is an ability to network.  When you meet someone they either like you or they don't.  Most people don't like A-holes.
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My favorite line from the FIU blog was…"well at least he is a highly respected QB coach"….I think Strock was too!  That worked out well…for FAU!!
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Tim said

My favorite line from the FIU blog was…"well at least he is a highly respected QB coach"….I think Strock was too!  That worked out well…for FAU!!

:D


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FAU should be thankful for FIU AD Pete Garcia's bad moves.
Cristabol had turned that program around and has one bad season and gets canned.
Isiah Thomas had put together a decent team that was on the verge of being competitive, and he gets canned.
Not sure how things will turn out, but if I was an FIU fan, I would be very concerned about what is coming…and if I was a coaching candidate, why would I want to work for a guy like Garcia?

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