By Brett Shweky/Editor
With the NFL and the Big Apple on the horizon for Everett Withers, the FIU Panthers will need to find another coach to fill their vacant defensive coordinator position as the spring season quickly approaches.
Withers, who agreed to take job earlier in the month, will become the new defensive backs coach for the New York Giants, according to NFL’s Ian Rapoport.
He will take over the role for the Giants after previous defensive backs coach Lou Anarumo moved to the Cincinnati Bengals to accept their defensive coordinator job.
Withers spent three years as the head coach of the Texas State Bobcats before this offseason where he went 7-28 before being fired.
Before his tenure at Texas State, Withers served as the head coach for James Madison from 2014 to 2015 and managed to take the Dukes to consecutive FCS playoff appearances and compile an 18-7 record.
If Withers had made the move to FIU, he would have reunited with Butch Davis who served as his head coach for three seasons at North Carolina.
Following Davis’ firing in 2011 at North Carolina, the former Appalachian State defensive back became his replacement coach for the remainder of the season.
He also has previous NFL experience with the New Orleans Saints and the Tennessee Titans.
Former FIU defensive coordinator Brent Guy stepped away from the program on Tuesday, Feb. 12.
During Guy’s two year stint, he coached the Panthers to the No. 9 defense in Conference USA in the 2017 and the No. 6 unit in the league in 2018.
