FIU’s football team is on its bye week, but recruiting, it seems, rarely takes a day off.
Coach Butch Davis said there is one specific trait he and his staff are looking for on the recruiting trail.
“We want to dramatically continue to change the overall team speed,” Davis said. “We want the players we bring in to be faster than what we have on our team right now. And next year, we will be saying the same thing.
“Speed is something that will give us a chance to have success on game day.”
So far, FIU’s 2017 recruiting class — the first under Davis, although he had to scramble to put the group together once he was hired on Nov.