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Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will end his 44-year coaching career after the Seminoles play in a bowl game. Bowden will retire as the second winningest coach in major-college football behind Penn State’s Joe Paterno. The 80-year-old Bowden has won 388 games in his career at Samford, West Virginia and Florida State, where he spent the last 34 seasons.
To say the ride that FSU and Bowden went on for 34 years was just an “era” doesn’t do it justice, writes Joe Henderson.
TALLAHASSEE —Bobby Bowden’s tenure as Florida State’s football coach spanned 34 years. While college football fans saw new faces pop up at Miami and Florida, they’d always look toward FSU’s sideline and see Bowden there.But, as he said Tuesday, “Nothing lasts forever, does it?”Bowden, 80, announced Tuesday via press release that FSU’s 2009 bowl game will be his last. In his time as FSU’s coach …
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will end his 44-year coaching career after the Seminoles play in a bowl game. Bowden will retire as the second winningest coach in major-college football behind Penn State’s Joe Paterno. The 80-year-old Bowden has won 388 games in his career at Samford, West Virginia and Florida State, where he spent the last 34 seasons.
FSU President T.K.
CBS4 news sources have confirmed legendary Florida State University head football coach Bobby Bowden is expected to announce his retirement on Tuesday. Bowden was meeting with FSU president T.K. Wetherell and athletic director Randy Spetman Tuesday morning and will speak to his team before a statement is released by the school Tuesday afternoon.
Leadership at FSU’s football program is making headlines Tuesday, but so is the search for the school’s new president.
With Bobby Bowden expected to announce his retirement from the head coaching position at Florida State Tuesday, Jimbo Fisher will finally take over total control of the football program.
Bobby Bowden, the longtime Florida State football coach who built the Seminoles into a national power after his arrival here in 1976, is expected to announce his retirement today, according to a high-ranking source within the university.
The Florida Times-Union has learned that given certain conditions, Florida State and West Virginia will be invited to play in the Konica Minolta Gator Bowl on Jan. 1 at the Jacksonville Municipal Stadium — a matchup that would be FSU coach Bobby Bowden¹s final college game, against the team he coached before taking over the Seminoles in 1976.
