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re: Bobby Bowden started head coaching in 1959. From 1959-2020 where does he rank all time.
Posted on 8/9/21 at 6:26 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 8/9/21 at 6:26 pm to RollTide1987
People just assume because he was in acc the schedule was soft.
Dude played Miami and Florida every year in out of conference.
Played notre dame etc every year.
Absolutely only behind Saban and bear. Name me someone better and I'll tell you why he isn't.
Paterno.....longer coaching at Penn state but BB played tougher schedule and had to compete with Florida and Miami in their hey day for recruits. That 15 year run of top 5 finishes was better than any thing paterno could put together. 2 national championships vs 2 national championships.
Osborne....yea took over a Stacked program, had guys juiced to the gills, then used partial qualifiers when nobody else could.
6 and mother frickin 2 against Osborne. 6 and 2 baby!!
Tell me who was better other than Saban and bear.
8-5-1 vs ole ball coach
John McKay is an argument you could make. Nobody really else.
Dude played Miami and Florida every year in out of conference.
Played notre dame etc every year.
Absolutely only behind Saban and bear. Name me someone better and I'll tell you why he isn't.
Paterno.....longer coaching at Penn state but BB played tougher schedule and had to compete with Florida and Miami in their hey day for recruits. That 15 year run of top 5 finishes was better than any thing paterno could put together. 2 national championships vs 2 national championships.
Osborne....yea took over a Stacked program, had guys juiced to the gills, then used partial qualifiers when nobody else could.
6 and mother frickin 2 against Osborne. 6 and 2 baby!!
Tell me who was better other than Saban and bear.
8-5-1 vs ole ball coach
John McKay is an argument you could make. Nobody really else.
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Posted on 8/9/21 at 6:36 pm to lsu777
Bowden was a great coach. But he went 0-3 vs. Barry Switzer, and 0-1 against Bob Stoops. Jimbo Fisher went 0-2 versus Stoops, with some pretty bad OU defenses at the time. Held to 17 & 13 points in both losses, what an offensive genius Jimbo is.
In all honesty, FSU kinda seems like they suck.
In all honesty, FSU kinda seems like they suck.
Posted on 8/10/21 at 9:51 am to lsu777
Bowden built his legacy on soft scheduling and cheating. He also had the best DC in college football for many years who just wasn't head coaching material or he would have left.
Bowden/FSU filled their schedule with sub-500 teams and then played a big name school like Michigan and Nebraska. Florida wasn't any good. Miami wasn't any good. When Miami turned the corner and Florida turned the corner, he ducked the SEC and joined the ACC expressly so he could have more wins.
The best of all time takes on the best and is not afraid of playing the best. That is 180 degrees away from Bowden.
Cheating:
When Sports Illustrated does its first ever probe of a program and calls it the most scandalous cheating program in college football history except for Miami, but somehow gets away with it, you see that Bobby is well-loved as a facade act, but the real deal is shady. Nobody cares that he was a cheater. Nobody. That is because he was "well-liked".
We all have short memories and we feel good and hate bad those the media has conditioned us to love or hate. It just is what it is. Bowden is a scumbag but the media and his good ol boy persona has everyone loving him.
Bowden/FSU filled their schedule with sub-500 teams and then played a big name school like Michigan and Nebraska. Florida wasn't any good. Miami wasn't any good. When Miami turned the corner and Florida turned the corner, he ducked the SEC and joined the ACC expressly so he could have more wins.
The best of all time takes on the best and is not afraid of playing the best. That is 180 degrees away from Bowden.
Cheating:
When Sports Illustrated does its first ever probe of a program and calls it the most scandalous cheating program in college football history except for Miami, but somehow gets away with it, you see that Bobby is well-loved as a facade act, but the real deal is shady. Nobody cares that he was a cheater. Nobody. That is because he was "well-liked".
We all have short memories and we feel good and hate bad those the media has conditioned us to love or hate. It just is what it is. Bowden is a scumbag but the media and his good ol boy persona has everyone loving him.
This post was edited on 8/10/21 at 9:56 am
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