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
I was afraid they would get away from us.
I was afraid he'd be a little tired, but he played the majority of the game (Monday night),
I was amazed how he stood up all day like he did,
I thought our kids played about as hard and about as good as we could. If we could have eliminated penalties I think we might have won the game. I don't know how many holding penalties we got in the red zone. It seemed like every time we got to the red zone there was a holding penalty, even in the playoff in the end. We were our own worst enemy in that regard.
I think it was obvious to everyone on the field and even Xavier, ... I can't express the necessity of having Xavier ready for this ballgame.
I think it's worth it. We can't afford to be missing an opportunity to play on national television on a Monday night.
It gives these young men a leg up to get here in the spring. I think you'll start to see more and more of this.
Jeffrey has handled it good and he's handled it better than I would've thought. Hey, there's nothing you can do about it. You can't win.
Last time you're playing at home (this season), I thought we'd go out there and jump all over them. We're just not a dominating team right now.
You ain't going to win 10 games every year. We've already done the impossible. You think anybody will ever do again what we did, 14 years in a row (ending the season ranked in the) top five? You think anybody will do that again? ... Everybody expects that every year and gosh, it just don't work that way.
We finally stole one from them like they've been stealing them from us. It's about time.
Our chances of winning the conference championship five years ago was 95 percent, ... Now it's down to 50-50.
Our penalties continually punished us and continually took away good play after good play that could have won the game. We're not good enough to do that. Some people might could. We might have done (so) in the past. We've got to eliminate the penalties.
Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.