Keeps getting worse in Tallahassee
October 6, 2009 by Jason Curts
Filed under My 2 Bits
An FSU trustee, Jim Smith, says he wants Bobby Bowden out at the end of the season. I didn’t realize Bowden was even making decisions anymore that could hurt or benefit the Seminoles from game to game. Anytime they show him on the sideline, he has that same confused look on his face. It’s pretty obvious he is not calling the plays.
Will Bobby stay after this year?
But Bowden is the face of FSU football and the program stands to lose more than it will gain by forcing him out. It’s like kicking your grandpa to the curb. What happens when Jimbo Fisher is exposed as the real problem? How long does he get before a trustee says it’s time to go?
What does it mean for the Gators? Recruiting gets a little easier for Urban Meyer with Bowden out of the picture. Any players that wanted to play for a legend will turn their heads down-state to Gainesville. In my opinion, a legend-in-the-making is better than a legend enjoying his twilight years. How many more years of Gator domination do you think we’ll see – with or without Bowden? A five-year deal for Jimbo plus another four to five years for his replacement means a decade of owning FSU. Maybe UF can just drop them from the schedule.
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It’s a sad thing really. The younger Gator fans will say he’s getting his just desserts for things like “hitting until the echo of the whistle” or Darnell Dockett/Earnest Graham or “the Swindle at the Swamp” and that may be. But I remember Bobby from the beginning of his FSU days. He was really good. He would take on anybody anytime anywhere. I remember one year FSU played five straight road games vs. Pitt, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Nebraska and LSU. All of them ranked. And the ‘Noles won three out of five. They would run trick plays at any time. And they would throw the ball all over the place. I think if Spurrier told the truth, he’d say he learned a lot by watching Bobby Bowden. Guys like Bobby and Howard Scnellenberger were the first to prove that Florida schools could compete with anybody if they could keep the high school talent here in the state. Up until then, a Florida school winning a National Title was a pipe dream. Since UM won it in ‘83, Florida schools have won 10 National Titles in 26 years. 8 other times, the team that won had to beat a Florida team to win it. A lot of that has to do with Bobby Bowden.