Jeff Bowden
Jeff Bowden
Jeff Bowden is an American college football coach at the University of Akron. He currently serves as special teams coordinator and the outside wide receivers coach on his brother Terry's staff. Before that he served as the offensive coordinator for the Florida State Seminoles under his father and head coach Bobby Bowden. He resigned from that position on November 14, 2006, following a shutout loss to Wake Forest three days earlier. He has also been a wide receivers coach and...
change
He can change a game. I know that.
chance describe good needed surprise tough
It was a good surprise because we needed him. The way I describe him is a tough, tough kid. He's got a chance to be a tough receiver, which is a characteristic we really need.
clearly drew four miss obvious practices
It was obvious to everyone on the field, and even to Xavier. Xavier's had to miss three, four practices with his shoulder, and with Drew getting all the reps right now he's just clearly in the lead.
people
You know people can say what they want. They're just not going to say it around here.
coaches fellow handle hard
It's hard to read that about fellow coaches in this profession. But that is the way it is, and you just better be able to handle it when it comes.
It's got to be frustrating. But I think (the receivers) understand.
certain practice
That really frees me up in pre-practice preparation. I want them getting used to going to him for certain things.
football
It's not a father-son (relationship) when it's on this football field. It's boss-employee.
bit instead picking
I still think he's picking a little bit up there instead of slashing.
care greatest hanging matter needs potential running taking tight urgent
I think we're doing well, and really well where the need is the greatest and that's the OL. We're hanging in there at tight end and we need a running back. Receivers haven't been a priority, but there is potential out there for us. I think the most urgent needs - we're taking care of them and now it's just a matter of hanging on to them at this point.
against ahead belly block call flat guys knew original prepared run situation stayed
We had a play called, a run to the outside, but we knew that he wanted the fullback belly. We should have stayed with our original call in that situation but we went ahead with the fullback belly and we had not prepared for that against them. We flat out couldn't block all of their guys on the play. We should have overruled him on that one.
ball focus helped knew run running spring surely wish
I still wish we had run the ball better. That surely would have helped us. But we knew that was one of their strengths. (The running game) will probably be the No.1 focus in spring ball.
best field good group guys hate players special stay
It's frustrating when you can't put your best players on the field because of injuries. When it's like that, you're not as good as you should be. But these guys I hate to say it this early, but this group can be special if they can stay healthy.