2017 Conference USA Media Day – A Look Back

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MIAMI (July 21, 2017) – Conference USA held its annual Media Day on July 19-20 at the DFW Marriott in Dallas, Texas. The league's head coaches and two student-athletes from each school were on hand to preview the upcoming season.  Head Coach Butch Davis along with seniors Alex McGough and Anthony Wint represented FIU. Head Coach Butch Davis On getting back into coaching… I think the obvious reason is that you miss coaching, but you miss the kids. If you're going to be a coach you have to love kids, you have to like the idea of being able to make a difference in their lives, whether it's educational or football-wise, and I miss it. I miss being I the locker room, out on the practice field, the meeting rooms, and stuff, and just being around kids. It's a super career. On what his time in television has taught him about coaching that maybe he didn't know previously… I worked for ESPN, and I worked for the NFL Network, and both of them were phenomenal. (With) ESPN, one of the things that helped me was, is it gave me the opportunity to see a lot of programs behind the scenes and learn things to see how everybody else was doing it. They would send me to Alabama, to Auburn, Florida State, last year I had the chance to go and spend some time with Mike Reilly at Nebraska, and when you go to these programs, you kind of get a chance to see how other people are skinning the cat. How do they do recruiting, how they do the offseason, how they do training camp; that part was good. But from the media aspect, you also understand how important the exposure is for your program, to get a chance for the media to come and see these guys (the players) and get to ...

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