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FIU Football Fall Camp Notebook: From Day 1 it’s Conference Title or Bust

Almost eight months to the day that the 2018 FIU Panthers coughed up their conference title hopes, the 2019 team made it clear about the goal for this season - it’s championship or bust.

“For the first 19 practices of training camp, it’s absolutely about us. It has nothing to do with any opponents or anything, it’s about how good can we make ourselves. We have to be the best team we can be, so that last season failures don’t repeat themselves,” said Butch Davis.

If there were any doubts as to whether the players weren’t on the same page as their head coach about the season’s goal, those were erased quickly.