Bobby Bowden
Bobby Bowden
Robert Cleckler Bowdenis a retired American football coach. He coached the Florida State Seminoles football team from the 1976 to 2009 seasons. During his time at Florida State, Bowden led FSU to an Associated Press and Coaches Poll National Title in 1993 and a BCS National Championship in 1999, as well as twelve Atlantic Coast Conference championships since FSU joined the conference in 1991. After a difficult 2009 season and amid questioning fans, Bowden stepped down, just weeks after his...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth8 November 1929
CityBirmingham, AL
CountryUnited States of America
We missed. They missed. We missed. They missed. But it was a great ballgame, again, a game in which nobody really should have lost that game but somebody has to lose.
I've never seen a quarterback make as many one-man plays as he made tonight.
I've never seen a quarterback beat us with a one-man show. The last time that happened to us was Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl--J.C. Watts. Watts did it in about 30 minutes. This guy did it the whole game.
They all did good jobs. Now, I felt like Jeffrey had the very same potential that they had. I still do. And Tommy and Terry felt the same way. So I really had no doubts that he would do the job.
As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.
And we're not good enough to do that, ... You've just got to continue to remind players, it's not worth it, it's not worth it, it's not worth it. You do try to get them to be aggressive, but the aggression has got to shut off at a certain time.
Early on, I don't know what we would have done without him.
There's some good hitting out there. I wouldn't run (with) that stinking ball.
We went into the year with one of our biggest liabilities being the offensive line. It was that way last year. Our offensive line stayed beat up all year. I think it goes in cycles like that sometimes, but it definitely does hurt.
Both of them were out there running and both looked pretty stable.
Boy, it is tough and it might even be unfair ù especially to be an offensive coordinator. But I want somebody I can trust. If I can't be at work or I have to go out of town, if I'm sick, I know he's going to be there working. But boy, being your son, it is tough. But it's good for him, because when he goes to coach... you have to learn how to handle it. It makes you tough.
Boy, did we catch heck on that one, ... . . . I learned from that lesson that you better let people know.
Every time Duke would grab the momentum, we would grab it right back with our offense.
The thing that's very important is the direction you're going. I think we're heading forward. It was hard to tell who the best team was, but they were a much more mature football team than we were.