Posted on 11/28/2009 8:15:50 PM PST by Perdogg
For the first time in his 34 seasons at Florida State as coach, Bobby Bowden seemed unsure if he wanted to continue his remarkable coaching career any longer.
Only minutes after the Seminoles were demolished by No. 1 Florida for the second straight season, losing 37-10 in Bowden's final trip to the Swamp, Bowden didn't sound like he'd be coaching at FSU again in 2010.
"I want to coach next year, but let me say I need to go home and do some soul searching," Bowden said.
Over the last four seasons, as criticism surrounding Bowden mounted as his teams lost more and more games, he was adamant he would leave the program he built on his own terms in the end.
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He is loaded. he needs to retire and give someone else a chance. These coaches are like U.S. Senators. I could care less.
The state government salaries these guys make is atrocious!
That said, he will leave on his own terms. FSU owes him that.
Paterno can hire Bowden as an assistant coach.
Sad to see Bobby leave the game with sub-par seasons like Bear Bryant
A division 1A football coach who has a top ranked team is worth a lot of money. 6 home games in 75,000 seat stadium brings in at least $8-10 million in revenue. Then there is the championship and bowl games that bring in extra money plus local TV and radio. The NCAA television and product contracts bring in even more albeit independent of the coach.
Boosters kick in $$$ for successful programs as well
Please stay Bobby.
Signed,
A Gator Fan
Bowden needs to retire for himself and for the school. I am a lifelong diehard, hardcore Gator since birth. Therefore, I would LOVE for Bowden to stay and continue the slide at FSU, but the game has CLEARLY passed him by and it is only fair for him to let the next generation run that program. There is nothing more pathetic than a guy who is the only person who doesn’t realize that his time has passed. His ability to recruit is nonexistant in the State is negligible any more. He needs to go!
I knew you would be around here sometime soon!
He started losing key assistants. At the end of the 2001 season he lost Mark Richt which had a big impact on their performance vs Oklahoma but their offense in general fell apart. A string of bad QBs, bad recruiting and improvement by other schools made FSU just not the place to be. The game also just passed him by. Oh, and hiring is son to be his OC turned out to be a major bust!
Half the time he looks like he doesn’t know where he is.
I would suggest Bowden gets more than a Zippo. (slight reference to the Bear at Kentucky)
The amount of money that Universities rake in with a winning program is colossal. If you want to see how much money Urban Meyer and Tim Tebow have made UF the last three years, just take a drive down to Gainesville! In addition to the infrastructure improvements (at what were already excellent facilities) are just the start. Add the fact that the last three years of success and Tebow have doubled the face value of tickets (for that, I'm not too happy!). Believe me .. a good head coach at a winning program is well worth the salaries that they are paid! The State isn't really paying them. The attending fans, and especially the TV networks, pay for their salaries and then some! All of those tens of millions go back into the school's budget.
I thought about posting that in my original response as well! ;^)
I think he looks purty darn good for 80. He’s forgotten more about football than most of us will ever know.
And it looks like Billy Donovan is bringing the Gators basketball team back to the elite this season.
The problem is, the athletic departments of major universities are not-for-profits. They don’t pay a dime in taxes on their profits. Are the tax payers really off the hook here paying coaches salaries?
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