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Wish this guy was the head coach after Bear Bryant at Alabama
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:23 pm
Still can't believe Bill Curry got the job over him back in the late 1980s
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Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:25 pm to biggsc
He coached at Florida State for 34 years and won two NC's. Dude was not near as good as people give him credit for but he is a great guy.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:28 pm to BamaScoop
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He coached at Florida State for 34 years and won two NC's. Dude was not near as good as people give him credit for but he is a great guy.
He would have had even better results at Bama. The ceiling at Bama is in outer space.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:29 pm to BamaScoop
quote:Bowden created Florida State from nothing
He coached at Florida State for 34 years and won two NC's. Dude was not near as good as people give him credit for but he is a great guy.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:30 pm to biggsc
Hindsight is 20/20 because until 1987 Bowden had been very pedestrian. Now, he was still building but he wasn't the Bowden people came to know. his records at FS prior to 1987 were:
5-6
10-2
8-3
11-1
6-5
9-3
8-4
7-3-2
9-3
7-4-1
Today, he would not have survived long enough to make FSU what we saw FSU become but yes, we don't experience the Bill Curry years, probably not the Stallings years either. We may have won the 91 and 94 national titles if not for Florida. Bowden dominated Florida.
5-6
10-2
8-3
11-1
6-5
9-3
8-4
7-3-2
9-3
7-4-1
Today, he would not have survived long enough to make FSU what we saw FSU become but yes, we don't experience the Bill Curry years, probably not the Stallings years either. We may have won the 91 and 94 national titles if not for Florida. Bowden dominated Florida.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:30 pm to BamaScoop
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He coached at Florida State for 34 years and won two NC's. Dude was not near as good as people give him credit for but he is a great guy.
You can't really believe that Bobby Bowden was a bad coach can you?
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:33 pm to Roses of Crimson
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Hindsight is 20/20 because until 1987 Bowden had been very pedestrian. Now, he was still building but he wasn't the Bowden people came to know. his records at FS prior to 1987 were:
Its funny to think about this now and how many coaches could do great things if given more time. Coaches use to get at least twice as many years as now before they were fired.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:34 pm to BamaScoop
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He coached at Florida State for 34 years and won two NC's.
Paterno was at Penn State for 46 years and only won 2 NCs. Tom Osborne was at Nebraska for 21 years before winning his first NC.
Not every great longtime coach has to have a fistful of rings like Bryant.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:35 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
Nobody is saying Bowden was bad it's just people forget until 87 how average he was. He was run out of WVU. He didn't win any NC until he joined the ACC which was so weak in 1992 that he could play his 2nd string and win by 35 every week. In 93 he would have lost to Auburn and in 99 he would have lost to Bama and probably not won those titles.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:43 pm to Roses of Crimson
quote:We were way too inconsistent under DuBose for me to agree with that.
and in 99 he would have lost to Bama
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:50 pm to genro
We were consistent against UF and Spurrier that year.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:52 pm to Titus Pullo
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We were consistent against UF and Spurrier that year.
Shaun consistently ran wild
Pfluegener consistently missed extra points. Luckily Florida was offsides in overtime.
Literally no one saw that blowout in the SECCG coming. Even we thought the regular season game was a fluke.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:54 pm to Roses of Crimson
14 straight ten win seasons...back when ten wins was harder to achieve.
FOURTEEN STRAIGHT. Remarkable.
FOURTEEN STRAIGHT. Remarkable.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 2:55 pm to Titus Pullo
I remember a few of his teams earlier in his career when he lost a game sometimes two early in the season, but by the end of the year he had the best team in the country.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 3:01 pm to Roses of Crimson
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Nobody is saying Bowden was bad it's just people forget until 87 how average he was. He was run out of WVU. He didn't win any NC until he joined the ACC which was so weak in 1992 that he could play his 2nd string and win by 35 every week. In 93 he would have lost to Auburn and in 99 he would have lost to Bama and probably not won those titles.
lol That's just stupid
Posted on 11/23/15 at 3:12 pm to biggsc
Likely would have gotten us in even more trouble with the NCAA than Stallings and DuBose did.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 3:15 pm to Feral
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Paterno was at Penn State for 46 years and only won 2 NCs
To be fair, Paterno should have won in 1968, 1969, 1973, and 1994 as well. 1969 was the Nixon game, and in 1994 we were forced to go to the Rose Bowl since we joined the Big Ten but we could have played Nebraska if we had stayed Independent.
Posted on 11/23/15 at 3:19 pm to rockiee
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Its funny to think about this now and how many coaches could do great things if given more time. Coaches use to get at least twice as many years as now before they were fired.
They weren't getting paid $4-5 million a year and had $1 mil + coordinators.
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