Conference USA officials signaled in the beginning of football season by gathering the league’s 14 schools for its annual media days on Wednesday and Thursday only feet from the Dallas Cowboys’ headquarters.
For FIU, Year 2 under coach Butch Davis — which officially begins Sept. 1 against Indiana in Miami — brings with it an even clearer focus of the program’s mantra, “Why not us?”
A surprise 8-5 record and an appearance in the Gasparilla Bowl only whetted the craving of a program starving for success. Plus, watching Central Florida have the success it has had only begged the question.