Around the SB Nation: the online Bobby Bowden roast

by Joel Hollingsworth on Jul 16, 2009 12:15 PM EDT in Rocky Top Talking Points

Only two lunchtime links today, but they're dandies and should keep you busy until you have to clock back in.

Last night, the Tallahassee Quarterback Club held a roast for Florida State coach Bobby Bowden. Tomahawk Nation did the same:
Bobby Bowden's career as a football coach speaks for itself. For the past 32 years, he has been the head coach at Florida State University where he has led the Noles to an overall record of 309-91-4. Well, depending on the upcoming NCAA ruling. His real record might actually be 6-4-2, we're not sure yet.

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But for all his faults, and all the shots we've taken at him over the years, Coach Bowden is a great man with an even better heart. It's an honor to get the chance to roast him and to have had him as a head coach for the last 246 years.
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TET's article points out one thing that doesn't get enough play:

UT has yet to make a legitimately bad coaching hire.

There have been ups and downs, of course, but UT’s probably the only major program in the nation without at least one coach in the history that you just can’t redeem historically.

by David Hooper on Jul 16, 2009 12:41 PM EDT reply actions

Great point

One thing in-house doubters will note is that the hires always had some sort of tie to the university. It’d be an understatement to call Kiffin the most outside the box hire in the programs history.

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."

by Getoffmyvols on Jul 16, 2009 1:04 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions