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FIU Golden Panthers Prowl

• Cristobal fired

  FIU fired after head football coach Mario Cristobal six seasons Wednesday, the last of which was a 3-9 season after FIU was the preseason favorite for the Sun Belt title.

  "It was based on going 3-9 this year with 30 seniors and what was suppsoed to be his best team," FIU [...]

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• Cristobal fired; Butch next?

  FIU fired head football coach Mario Cristobal after six seasons Wednesday, the last of which was a 3-9 season after FIU was the preseason favorite for the Sun Belt title. FIU heads into Conference USA next season.

  "It was based on going 3-9 this year with 30 seniors and what was [...]

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• The (Coaching) Wire

  Coaching's scramble season, when Sun Belt coaches get fired or hired elsewhere, is in full swing this week.

  For the second consecutive year, Arkansas State lost a coach to the SEC, Gus Malzahn heading to Auburn. Wisconsin's looking for a head coach after Bret Bielema went to Arkansas, opening up a [...]

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• A 2nd for Gustafsdottir, a school record for Ribi in Missouri

  As far as basketball at The Branch tonight, the women won, the men lost, I'll blog more about it later or tomorrow morning.

  At the final night of the Mizzou Invitational, sophomore Johanna Gustafsdottir finished second in the 200 backstroke to Missouri's Dominique Bouchard by 5.06 seconds after clocking a 1:57.83. The [...]

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• School records for Gustafsdottir & Ribi in Missouri (not muddy) waters

  As far as basketball at The Branch tonight, the women won, the men lost, I'll blog more about it later or tomorrow morning.

  At the final night of the Mizzou Invitational, sophomore Johanna Gustafsdottir finished second in the 200 backstroke to Missouri's Dominique Bouchard by 5.06 seconds after clocking a 1:57.83. In [...]

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• New guys

  I asked FIU coach Richard Pitino for thumbnail sketches on this week's signees. Here's what he said:

  On Jaquan Lynch, a 6-1 senior at Brooklyn Thomas Jefferson High: "Lynch we saw over the summer. Really liked him a lot. It turned out (assistant coach) Kimani (Young) had known him growing up. [...]

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