Posted on 11/12/2023 7:59:28 AM PST by dennisw
Why is he scum?
“You know who else has a ‘young’ team this year? Alabama. They look so much better now than they did the first half of the season.”
a comment by dfwgator
Because he was an assistant coach at FSU under the tutelage of one Bobby Bowden, and learned all the crooked ways of BB. Winning at any cost, even dirty playing. Bowden is the scum father, and Fisher is the scum son. They will always be scum in my book.
I’m not a football expert, but obviously player recruitment, player development, game strategy and player retention are all involved.
Exactly where did he go wrong?
WIKI
on March 6, 2009, an NCAA ruling required Florida State to “vacate wins for any games in which an ineligible player participated”, threatening to remove as many as fourteen of Bowden’s wins from the 2006 and 2007 seasons in relation to an academic scandal. Florida State appealed the ruling, but the NCAA upheld it on January 5, 2010. Upon final investigation by FSU, it was determined that Bowden was to vacate 12 wins, bringing his final career record to 377–129–4, second to Paterno’s final tally of 409 wins.
Bowden served as an assistant football coach and head track and field coach at Howard College (now known as Samford University) in Birmingham, Alabama from 1954–55. He left his alma mater to become athletic director as well as head football, baseball, and basketball coach at South Georgia College from 1956 to 1958. After a losing basketball season, Bowden fired himself as head coach. Bowden then returned to Howard as head coach, where he compiled a 31–6 record between 1959 and 1962.
Bowden made the move to become the head coach of the Florida State Seminoles in 1976 the same place where he had coached wide receivers because the climate was warmer than in Morgantown, and because Tallahassee was closer to Birmingham, Alabama, where his mother and mother-in-law both lived. The team had a 4–29 record over the previous three seasons and he planned to stay only briefly before taking a better job, perhaps as head coach at Alabama.
Bowden became very successful very quickly at Florida State. By his second year, Bowden faced rumors he would leave for another job; the team went 9–2, compared to the four wins total in the three seasons before Bowden. He said he would be content to finish his career at Florida State, however, and reportedly told another athletic-department employee he would “never coach anywhere north of Tallahassee”. During 34 years as head coach he had only one losing season–his first, in 1976–and declined head coaching job offers from Alabama, Auburn, LSU, and the National Football League’s Atlanta Falcons. From 1987 to 2000, the Seminoles finished every season with at least 10 wins and in the top 5 of the Associated Press College Football Poll, and won the national championship in 1993 and 1999. The team was particularly dominant after joining the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in 1992, winning or sharing nine consecutive conference titles from 1992 to 2000, and only losing two conference games in that stretch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bowden
Here’s his record at TAMU as the head coach:
2018 Texas A&M 9–4 5–3 T–2nd (Western)
2019 Texas A&M 8–5 4–4 4th (Western)
2020 Texas A&M 9–1 8–1 2nd (Western)
2021 Texas A&M 8–4 4–4 T–3rd (Western)
2022 Texas A&M 5–7 2–6 T–6th (Western)
2023 Texas A&M 6–4 4–3 (Western)
Texas A&M: 45–25 overall 27–21 in the Western conference
I would take a guess that the trajectory doesn’t look good, and TAMU isn’t in the mood to be gracious anymore. No conference championship either. The handwriting has been in the wall.
I know all about Bobby Bowden without looking at his wiki page, but maybe others can be familiarized with him.
He’s got the Franklin Penn State problem. He can’t overcome the established powers in the conference. They are locked in for the forseeable future.
I don’t care what happens to Fisher. Just no other school should ever pick him up. Too bad his millions will mean he’ll never have to eat scrapple everyday for the rest of his life.
Both, of course.
All of which shows that the commercialization of college sports is evil.
Why are we hiring the best athletes to pretend they’re students to play college sports, rather than hiring the best and brightest minds, and letting them pretend to be athletes?
Which method is of greater benefit to society and mankind?
Next stop: Ann Arbor
Aggie alumni have more money than sense.
Money can’t buy you love....
Money don’t get everything, it’s true
But what it don’t get, I can’t use
pong!
Harbaugh will be there as long as he wants. He’s Mr. Michigan and UM seems to be sticking by their man. They’ll only fire him if the NCAA vacates wins and takes away scholarships. And Harbaugh will be long gone by then.
Yep..
Dude is a 3 or 4 loss a year coach without a generational talent at QB.. .
You’re a jackass.
LOL.
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