I wonder how he'll do at FIU.
I really don't think Butch has ever been anything more than an average to below average coach with great recruiting and player evaluation skills. I'm not really sure why people think his stint at Miami was that much different than his stint at UNC in terms of building up talent and underachieving with it. I think he underachieved all 6 years of his Miami tenure including 2000. (Holy **** he lost to Rick Neuiheisel with that roster. I repeat Rick Neuiheisel.)
He'll build CUSA's best roster at FIU, although we'll see what he does with it.
I am not here to bag on Butch, Miami owes him a great deal, but I also was clear I did not want him hired again. He was, at Miami, a magician when it came to both talent evaluation and roster management. But he was never a great game day coach or a great recruiter. Additionally, this whole interweby thing kicked in in the decade plus since he was at Miami, and it is simply much harder to find and hide those "diamonds" now. All those hailing him as a savior, IMO, were simply living in the past.
Having said all of that, he did a lot for Miami, goes down as a top 5 football coach here, and I wish him luck.