Posted on 07/20/2007 3:31:23 PM PDT by GOP_Raider
Bobby Bowden enters his 32nd fall as Florida State's head coach, and it's not stretching the truth to say he looks forward to this season as much as he has any in the last decade. How strange it is, then, that the theme of this season is change.
First, this will be the 77-year-old coach's first season as a Hall of Fame coach. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December in a class that included his first Heisman Trophy winner, quarterback Charlie Ward. The class was supposed to include his comrade in longevity, Penn State's Joe Paterno, but Paterno postponed his induction after breaking a leg on the sideline last fall.
An added credential to his resume was hardly what FSU's legend-in-residence needed most, however. He needed a reversal of fortune. A program that once posted an NCAA-record 14 consecutive seasons of top-10 finishes and 10-win seasons, that collected two national titles, two Heismans and a parade of All-Americans, no longer was golden.
A 10-win season in 2003 was followed by back-to-back eight-win seasons. Last year's 7-6 campaign needed a seesaw 44-27 victory over UCLA in the Emerald Bowl -- yes, nuts -- to seal a winning season. The only cherries on a season that saw the Seminoles finish fifth, next-to-last, in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Atlantic Division were bookends: a season-opening triumph at Miami and the bowl win.
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Well, they’re probably in this one too...I just don’t have the screen resolution to make them out.
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I completely agree. I’m genuinely looking forward to what our offense can do with some protection and a running game...
I hope so! I love to watch them lose to us more than any other team.
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