FIU hires Butch Davis as its coach, gives him 5-year deal
MIAMI — Butch Davis wanted to return to Miami last year, when the Hurricanes needed a new coach.
FIU is bringing him back instead.
Davis was hired Monday as the new coach at FIU, agreeing to a five-year contract. FIU executive director of sports and entertainment Pete Garcia said Davis will be introduced Tuesday afternoon.
“We’ll tell you how it happened then,” Garcia said.
Garcia — who has a long history with Davis, including stints working together with the Miami Hurricanes and then the Cleveland Browns — used Davis as a consultant the last time he hired a coach, that being Ron Turner in 2013.